Event Type
Alumni Tune-Up EMEA
2025
July 25, 2025
1am - 5:30am CDT
Live Online
Whether you completed certification years ago or only last month, there’s always room to learn and grow further with your skills and self-awareness as a facilitator.
What better way to refresh yourself professionally than a mini-conference by, for, and about certification alumni? It’s the inaugural Alumni Tune-Up!
We’ll recreate the magic of certification sessions while learning from and with other alumni, new and creative ways to:
- Deeply engage with participants… and yourself
- Explore your growth edges and identify goals for advancing as a facilitator
- Use AI and other technologies to build better and bolder sessions
- Apply facilitation skills to achieve specific business goals – trust-building, product design, strategic planning and more
You’ll also have opportunities to meet and get to know other alumni from across all cohorts.
Watch this page for more details about specific speakers and sessions.
July 25, 2025
8:00am - 12:30pm CEST
Live Online
Registering for the EMEA Alumni Tune-Up also gives you access to the North America Alumni Tune-Up, along with recordings.
Agenda
- Opening keynote workshop with Erik Skogsberg of Voltage Control
- 20-minute open networking session
- Discover Your Guiding Metaphor: What Kind of Facilitator Are You?, with Reshma Khan
- Facilitation Confidence Booster: Certification Was Only the Beginning, with Marco Monterzino
- Closing
Registration includes access to North America Alumni Tune-up on July 25, 2025 from 10:00am – 2:30pm CST.
Do you want to have your registration fee waived by volunteering to make the Tune-Up a success? Email Robin at robin@voltagecontrol.com and indicate your interest in volunteering as a scribe, technology assistant, greeter, warm-up facilitator and more.
Do you have a session you would like to propose? Email Robin at robin@voltagecontrol.com
Key Takeaways
Professional Rejuvenation
Reconnect with your core purpose as a facilitator while nurturing old and new relationships with peers
Advanced Skill Application
Leverage cutting-edge facilitation techniques to drive successful outcomes in diverse and challenging environments
Leadership and Legacy
Contribute to the growing body of knowledge and experience for our unique alumni community
Featured Facilitators
Erik Skogsberg
Erik believes that a deep empathy and caring, rooted in human-centered design, systems thinking, and futures thinking best supports partners in finding their solutions. Erik is passionate about supporting clients imagining innovative approaches to complex organizational challenges.
Trained as an educator, designer, researcher, and change agent, he brings significant teaching, design, mentoring, professional learning and development, organizational change, and research experiences from across secondary, higher education, non-profit, and industry contexts. Whether working with individuals, teams, or organizations, he helps people design lasting growth and innovation. Prior to working with Voltage Control, he co-founded Michigan State University’s Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology, an internal design consultancy focused on learning experience design, innovation, and organizational transformation.
He earned his B.A. in English Literature from Western Washington University, M.A.T. in Secondary English Education from Brown University, and Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education.
Trained as an educator, designer, researcher, and change agent, he brings significant teaching, design, mentoring, professional learning and development, organizational change, and research experiences from across secondary, higher education, non-profit, and industry contexts. Whether working with individuals, teams, or organizations, he helps people design lasting growth and innovation. Prior to working with Voltage Control, he co-founded Michigan State University’s Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology, an internal design consultancy focused on learning experience design, innovation, and organizational transformation.
He earned his B.A. in English Literature from Western Washington University, M.A.T. in Secondary English Education from Brown University, and Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education.
Reshma Khan
Reshma Aziz Khan is Kenyan and grew up in Nairobi, the Green City in the Sun. She has worked in the non-profit sector for over a decade, and has led team strategy, organizational development and transformation initiatives in various parts of Africa as well as Asia, the Middle East and North America. Her keen awareness on cross-cultural engagement allows her to respectfully navigate and work with people of all cultures, mind-sets and diversities. What she says on her purpose as a facilitator: ‘‘I am a CONDUIT FOR EFFECTIVE DIALOGUE AND DECISION MAKING.I create and hold a safe space for participants so that all voices feel that they can speak and be heard. Pushing my own boundaries, also actively encourage divergent thinking, and encourage generative conflict and differing viewpoints to be shared, and hold space for individuals to work through that discomfort towards then converging towards shared ownership on a decision. I aim for every participant to leave each session knowing their specific purpose going forward and feeling that they can get behind whatever decision was made, and feeling that they were fully included and validated.’
Marco Monterzino
I am a human-centered designer and innovation facilitator.
Since 2012 I help senior leadership and project teams discover the power and joy of collaborating in an agile digital-first environment to transform, innovate and thrive in today’s constantly evolving work landscape.
I specialise in guiding senior leadership and project teams through human-centered transformative journeys, unlocking the potential for innovation through experiential learning and creative collaboration.
Find out more on monterzinodesign.com
Since 2012 I help senior leadership and project teams discover the power and joy of collaborating in an agile digital-first environment to transform, innovate and thrive in today’s constantly evolving work landscape.
I specialise in guiding senior leadership and project teams through human-centered transformative journeys, unlocking the potential for innovation through experiential learning and creative collaboration.
Find out more on monterzinodesign.com
