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Anyone can lead a great meeting.

We make meetings engaging, inclusive and productive through meeting skills training and facilitation services for professionals and organizations.

Remove the fluff and focus on quick and tangible techniques for tackling complex problems.

We make meetings work.

When it comes to building a successful team or organization, meeting your goals or making a change, it all starts with how we meet. No one teaches us how to participate in a meeting, let alone lead one.

We work with you as facilitators to make meetings inclusive, engaging, and productive and provide training and resources so you too can lead meetings with confidence.

Better meetings make better teams.

MeetingMakers is your partner in facilitating meetings with tangible outcomes and lasting impact. Better meetings create better teams that achieve sustainable results and create healthy organizational cultures.

Our services are designed to:

  • Equip leaders to empower teams and lead through complexity and chaos.

  • Create space for innovation and forward-thinking.

  • Prepare your team for effective daily and weekly meetings.

  • Improve annual retreats to have a lasting impact.

We work with professionals, teams, and organizations with a desire to meet more effectively and reach their goals.

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American Medical Association

Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Virginia Tech Interior Design Advisory Board

Nemours Foundation

American Medical Association ● Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics ● Virginia Tech Interior Design Advisory Board ● Nemours Foundation ●

Services

We specialize in working with healthcare associations, research institutions, non-profits and advocacy groups, and higher education.

Workshops

Make meeting skills a core competency in your team or organization. From improved participation to complex meeting methods, our workshops can be customized to your unique meeting and team needs.

Design and Facilitation

Our expert facilitators use leading whole-systems and human-centered approaches to design meetings with real results. Let us lead the meeting, or facilitate it yourself with our design-only option.

One-on-One Training

Build the confidence to lead with impact. We combine personalized coaching, shadowing opportunities, and hands-on project work so you gain real-world experience and leave with a customized toolkit.

Enterprise Solutions

Transform your organization's approach to meetings to drive bigger and better results. We assess existing practices, design training for lasting improvements, and offer evaluation to measure growth and impact over time.

Ready to make your meetings work?

Become a MeetingMaker

Start your journey to better meetings with our MeetingMakers Community and free resources:

  • Join the MeetingMakers Community on Facebook to join the discussion, ask questions and get feedback.

  • Listen to This Meeting Sucks®, the podcast on a mission to end sucky meetings one episode at a time.

  • Follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn for quick tips and to be the first to access new resources and workshops.

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