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2 Mini Workshops to Level Up Your Virtual Skills

Looking for an affordable alternative to our longer workshops? We have 2 mini-workshops that will fit just right! The following workshops focus on tactical issues that we are all facing in the new remote world of distributed teams.

Be one of the first to witness the unveiling of some of our new Magical Meetings content in the Magical Meeting mini-workshop, get the most out of Zoom in the Collaborating in Zoom mini-workshop and learn how to run remote visual thinking sessions in the MURAL 101 mini-workshop.

Date

October 1, 2020

Time

9am - 10:30am CT​

Location

Live Online

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MINI WORKSHOP

MURAL 101

Oct 21, 2020  •  Online

Join our 90-min workshop to learn everything you need to know to run virtual workshops in MURAL.

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MINI WORKSHOP

Magical Meetings

Oct 28, 2020 • Online

In this hands-on mini-workshop, we will provide you with the information you need to create a magical experience at every meeting.

John Fitch

John is an entrepreneur and business coach. He is Chief Product Officer of Voltage Control, where we prototypes tools to help people facilitate better meetings. He enjoys designing technology through unlearning and the generous act of sonder. Prior to Voltage Control, John was Entrepreneur in Residence at Animal Ventures where he advised Fortune 100 leadership on their prototyping practices and led distributed software teams at the intersection of machine learning, robotics, and decentralized computing. John also worked directly with Google Ventures running Design Sprints and now coaches organizations how to develop rapid prototyping practices within their culture.

John is a co-author to two books with Douglas Ferguson: How To Remix Anything and Non-Obvious Guide to Magical Meetings and is an author of Time Off – a look at how modern society is burning us out, why time off and creativity will be a crucial component to the future of human work, and the solutions to help us all prioritize our “rest ethic.” John spends his leisure time farming, hosting dinner parties, and practicing Jiu Jitsu. He graduated from University of Texas at Austin and is a proud alumni of Seth Godin’s altMBA.

Douglas Ferguson

Douglas Ferguson is an entrepreneur and human-centered technologist with over 20 years of experience. He is the founder and president of Voltage Control, an Austin-based facilitation agency that specializes in helping teams work better together through participatory decision making and design inspired facilitation techniques. He has helped transform teams from U.S. SOCOM, the Air Force, Adobe, Dropbox, Fidelity, Vrbo, Liberty Mutual, Humana, and SAIC.

Douglas is a thought leader and master facilitator of Design Sprints, Innovation Acceleration, Team Alignment, Meeting Systems, Culture Transitions, and Change Transformations. He is also the author of three books: Beyond the Prototype, How to Remix Anything (co-authored), and Start Within (co-authored).

Motivated by a mission to rid the world of horrible meetings and offer meaningful meetings in their place, Voltage Control is calling upon fellow facilitators to transform meeting and innovation culture. From free weekly community meetups to Control the Room–the annual facilitator summit, Voltage Control is building a community of facilitators to change the world.


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