Could you be having better online meetings?
Save time, get better results, and start enjoying meetings with our professional meeting facilitation and meeting trainings. On-site or Online.
People spend hundreds of hours in meetings. Organizations devote thousands of hours to them. You have a choice: dull, unproductive meetings – or effective meetings that engage people, feel good, and get things done. We help with that through:
Meeting
Facilitation
Run meetings as an objective, outside expert. Plus online facilitation.
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Meeting
Trainings
Learn how to run effective meetings and virtual events. Zoom training too.
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Meeting
Design
Consulting services to improve meetings and conferences.
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We make more of your meetings ones that efficiently generate better ideas, truly include participants so they feel respected and valued, and result in real action – while cutting down on meetings that are boring, pointless, wastes of time and money. We work with companies, associations, government agencies, and nonprofits to tackle three common meeting categories:

Small Meetings
Staff or board meetings, committees, brainstorming, remote teams, etc.

Conferences
Big meetings that include online conferences, presentations and webinars.

Networking Events
Mixers and online networking socials at on-site or virtual conferences.
We do one thing and do it well:
Improve Your Meetings
Meeting
Facilitation
Our meeting facilitation services focus on engaging, participatory meetings with an eye on real results. The on-site or online meeting facilitation is informed by pre-meeting design, prep, and research. We can also do online facilitation (e.g. Zoom facilitation) and assist as a corporate retreat facilitator, board retreat facilitator, or conference facilitator.
- Professional facilitators have expert meeting skills that employees lack.
- Hire a meeting facilitator to free up your time.
- Meeting facilitators work to hear all voices to get the best solution.
- Ensures a well prepared meeting, respecting employees’ time.

Online Meeting Training & Facilitation
For those managing virtual teams or running a virtual conference or events, we provide online meeting training and online facilitation. We can improve your online conference sessions, webinars, and video conferencing so you’re having engaging, effective online meetings. We can design and run online networking sessions, plus train your team on online facilitation skills.
Meeting
Trainings
Think about how many hours you’re in meetings. Can they be better? Surprisingly, most employees have never had any meeting training. Even a short course on group facilitation skills, online meeting techniques, or effective meetings training can pay dividends year after year — be it professional development for employees or a training for new managers. And while a meeting about meetings can sound dreadful, our meeting skills trainings are hands-on, productive, and fun.

Effective Meeting Skills
An online meeting skills training course; easy facilitation techniques.

Getting Great Ideas
Improved brainstorming and innovation for new products or solutions. With online methods.

Staff/Board
Meeting Makeover
Fix your regular meetings to be more efficient and enjoyable.

Virtual Meetings Best Practices
Interactive facilitation training for online meetings and remote teams.

Strategic Planning Workshop
Learn how to develop strategy, plan, and execute better.

Collaboration for
Associations & Nonprofits
Solve common issues with innovation and collaboration.

Meeting Skills for
Consultants
Get better results in team meetings or client meetings.

Reinvent Your
Online Conference
Adapt to holding an online conference that attendees will still pay for.

Build Your
Own Training
Choose meeting or facilitation skills to fit your organization's needs.
While a great meeting can seem elusive, we pull back the curtain, explain the magic trick, and then teach you to do it yourself — online or in person. Through active learning and hands-on professional development, you’ll learn how you can be running effective meetings. These are plug-and-play meeting skills you can use immediately.


before the training.


Studies find that a third of our meeting time is wasted.
Get your hours back!
Inquire about other stand-alone or add-on pieces, including: Adapting Online Meetings, Panel-Moderator Training, Forging Agreement, and Meeting Training for New Managers & Supervisors.
Meeting
Design
Lee's workshops are a perfect balance of fun, value, learning, and excitement. You and your team will have an excellent time – and it will positively influence your entire culture. I highly recommend his workshops.
Vlad Korobov Product Manager and UX community organizer workshop August 6, 2019
The Better Meetings workshop was hands on, informative, and drove home the message that it doesn't take much to make meetings better with simple techniques. I walked away with new meeting design tools that I will definitely use at work.
Flora Le Director of Compliance at 2U workshop August 6, 2019
The training and advice have been easy to implement in my day-to-day gatherings, board meetings, and even our conference. But, more than that, it’s gotten me to really think differently about how to significantly improve our meetings in new ways.
Everard Davenport Director of Community Development at US Ignite workshop August 6, 2019
Lee Gimpel is a meeting expert with a focus on improving meetings by making them more productive, effective, and engaging. Formerly, as Director of Development for LifeWise Strategies, he spent a decade overseeing the training/education company’s products that helped organizations design and facilitate better programs, more authentic client connections, and dynamic classes. There, he worked with organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, United Way, and the USMC. Previously, he worked in the training-knowledgebase department at Capital One and started his career as a software product manager. His work blends meeting facilitation, audience engagement, human-centered design, and specific training with Liberating Structures, Technology of Participation, and improv.
