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Podcast | December 14, 2021

Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Jennifer Reil about her experience working at IDEO, metacognition, and teaching at the Management School at the University of Toronto. We talk about her new book Creating Great Choices: A Leader’s Guide to Integrative Thinking. We then discuss the difficulty in building the capacity to think about what we think about and opposing modals of thinking. Listen in to learn how to build empathy, the curse of knowledge, and failing better.

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Podcast | October 26, 2021

Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Gregory Galle, Co-Founder of Solve/Next and the Author of Think Wrong, about about his 30 years of experience applying his Think Wrong problem-solving system to both the private & public sectors, the importance of understanding Cross-Sector Communication and creating the conditions for ‘Being’ in business.

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Meeting Culture | October 1, 2021

Douglas Ferguson speaks with Jeff Gothelf, Coach, Speaker, Author and Consultant, about a meeting he designed called “Demo Days,” the purpose of the meeting, what it helped accomplish, and why it was so powerful.

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Podcast | September 28, 2021

Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with A conversation with Madelon Guinazzo, Co-Founder and Consent Facilitator of Cuddlist, about the importance of social agreements, being more intentional about how we meet, the consent of self-care and trying to do the right thing for you and your clients. 

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Podcast | August 3, 2021

Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Sarah L. Collie, Associate Vice President for Organizational Excellence at the University of Virginia, about the influence facilitation has played throughout her professional career, how meeting disruption can happen no matter how prepared the facilitator, and more.

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Podcast | July 20, 2021

Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Liya James, Design Entrepreneur & Author, about the value of environmental shifts in organizations to unleash creativity, the significance of a creative & courageous mindset in the workplace, and her new book.