Published in MPI One+

I was recently interviewed for and quoted in the Meeting Planning International‘s One+ Magazine for the July/August issue. It was interesting to talk about process facilitation and collaborative event design from an “event industry” perspective. It’s great to see some exposure on the idea that a typical meeting or event doesn’t have to have such a broadcast dynamic, where a speaker or a panel talks at the audience. Usually my work is with a specific organization which is trying to solve a particularly hairy business problem but conferences often have very smart, dedicated people as participants and it’s high time the participants and speakers started working together at conferences to solve some of the hairy problems that we face as a society.

Read the article.

Here’s a quote from Joel Spasky that I JUST picked off Twitter, from @ibmdesigns, which I think is relevant to the article in the MPI magazine: “Design adds value faster than it adds cost.”