Workshops

Whether you're learning to contribute in meetings with confidence, redesigning your meeting rhythms, or sharpening your facilitation craft, our workshops meet you and your team where you are.

Invest in meetings as a core business function and unlock stronger collaboration, clearer decisions, and better use of everyone’s time. From foundational skills to advanced methods, each training is designed to be actionable, engaging, and aligned with real meeting needs.

All workshops are designed for 5–50 participants and can be experienced in person or online. Explore stand-alone modules or stack sessions to create a custom learning path.

There’s something for everyone.

Keep scrolling or use the buttons below to find the right training in our catalog for you or your team.

FOR INDIVIDUALS AND TEAMS

Foundational Skills

101 Meeting Participation 

Build confidence and skills to participate meaningfully in any meeting.

    • Effective group participation

    • Reading the room

102 Meeting Management 

Strengthen team culture and meeting structure.

    • Meeting audit & setting meeting agreements

    • Navigating conflict

    • Action-oriented routine meetings

FOR EMERGING LEADERS

Meeting Leadership

201 Collaborative Decision-Making 

Learn frameworks and tools to lead inclusive, productive decisions.

    • Collaborative decision-making

    • Brainstorming

    • Energizers (aka icebreakers)

    • Group decision-making

202 Experience Design

Design effective, engaging agendas and meeting flows.

    • Agenda design for routine and unique gatherings

    • Open agenda design

    • Meeting logistics

FOR TEAM LEADS AND PROJECT MANAGERS

Meeting Methods for Teams

Learn to facilitate meetings for different moments in team or project lifecycles, based on our MeetingMakers Framework. Each level includes a meeting agenda and activity templates for you to use after the session.

301 Initiating Projects or Teams

Project kick-off and team charter activities.

302 Building Trust in Teams

Workstyles and team-profile activities.

303 Aligning on the Past and Present

History map and current-state analysis activities.

304 Aligning on Customers

Design sprint based on human-centered design methods.

305 Aligning on Process

Process mapping activity.

306 Visioning the Future

Mission and vision design activities.

307 Mapping the Way Forward

Goal-setting and action planning activities.

308 Measuring Meaningful Progress

Performance metrics activity.

FOR EXPERIENCED FACILITATORS

Specialized Workshops

401 Facilitating with Visuals

A workshop for facilitators and professionals who want to improve meetings through visual tools and draw their way to better meetings.

    • Beginner drawing skills for adults

    • Making visual aids with flipcharts and markers

    • Designing and facilitating with visual templates

    • Drawing live and on the fly while facilitating or coaching

    • Visual tools for online meetings

Testimonials

Testimonial
“This session took the fear out of facilitation for me. I was able to use what I learned in a meeting right away and found that the skills I learned helped participants stay engaged and on track.”

Anca Popa, Throughline

“The workshop made a great impression and our team is actively using the tools shared with us. I hear from them often that they really appreciate the tools and training.”

Julie Brewer, USDA Food and Nutrition Service

“I found this training was the most insightful and effective of all of the courses I have taken. I recognized that Lauren kept us together as an entity. I am sincerely going to miss this interaction.”

Workshop Participant

“Two of our designers attended the MeetingMakers Academy. It’s been cool to see them take what they learned and apply it with so much newfound confidence!”

Julia Tylor, Throughline, Inc.

“As a face-to-face trainer with low visual recall, the digital transition felt daunting—but Lauren’s clarity, encouragement, and generous sharing have made all the difference.”

Irina Burgess

“Lauren was experienced, prepared, focused, organized, relevant, even joyous, wanting the best for everybody. Her workshop was perfectly balanced—walking us though the tech, logic and application.”

Eliyahu Lotzar, Reframed Reality

“Our team members expressed how much they appreciated all the tips you provided for them in running future meetings. I am so impressed with your calm demeanor and your graceful and fun facilitation.”

Selin McCurdy, Deloitte

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