"Every team already has the answer. They just haven't drawn it out yet."
Convene designs and leads workshops that turn crossed arms and silent agendas into walls covered in frameworks and teams that finally see what they've been trying to say to each other.
Convene
Not a service list. A set of convictions about what actually moves organizations forward.
Conviction 01
Slides kill momentum.
The moment someone clicks to the next deck slide, a dozen brains drift. Real decisions happen when people are on their feet, marker in hand, arguing about what goes in the center of the wall.
Conviction 02
The best strategy fits on one wall.
If your plan needs 40 pages to explain, it isn't a plan — it's a hedge. The teams that move fastest are the ones who can point at a single surface and say: that's what we're doing.
Conviction 03
Silence is data.
When the room goes quiet after a question, something important is happening. A skilled facilitator doesn't fill that silence. They sit in it, and then name what just surfaced.
Conviction 04
Facilitation is a craft, not a soft skill.
It takes years to learn how to read a room, hold tension without resolving it prematurely, and design a sequence of activities that builds to a decision. This is expertise. Treat it like one.
Rooms that look different on the way out.
Affinity mapping in progress
Wall-scale systems mapping
Ideas finding their clusters
Small group synthesis
"Every team already has the answer.
They just haven't drawn it out yet."
Organizations that have been in the room
If any of these sound familiar, you're in the right place.
Your annual retreat is three weeks out and the agenda looks exactly like last year's.
You've run the icebreakers. You've done the breakout groups. People leave energized for about a week, then the same silos reassemble. You need someone who designs for decisions, not just connection.
12–15 sessions/year
avg. engagements with L&D teams
You're running a co-creation sprint with a client and you need a neutral hand to hold the process.
When you're too close to the outcome, facilitation suffers. Convene steps in as the process expert, freeing you to think strategically while the room does its best work.
94%
of sprint teams reach a testable prototype
Your board and staff have been circling the same strategic question for two years.
Pivots are hard when everyone has history with the organization. Convene creates structured space for candid conversation, surfaces the unspoken, and helps leadership teams make the call they've been avoiding.
3–5 days
to a documented strategic direction
What happens after the markers go back in the tray.
"I've sat through a hundred offsite facilitators. Most of them run activities. Convene runs processes. By day two, we had a strategic framework on the wall that our leadership team has actually referenced in board meetings. That's never happened before."
Three-day leadership alignment retreat, 34 participants
Diane Kowalczyk
VP, Learning & Development
Meridian Health Systems
Chicago, IL
"We brought Convene in to run a co-creation sprint with a healthcare client. Our team had been too embedded to facilitate objectively. The session produced three viable concepts in two days — the client greenlit the first one six weeks later."
Two-day co-creation sprint, 18 participants
Marcus Osei
Innovation Lead
Foresight Consulting
Atlanta, GA
"Our executive team had been avoiding a critical program decision for 14 months. It wasn't that we disagreed — we just hadn't found the right container. One day with Convene and we walked out with a decision, a rationale, and a communication plan. I don't know how that happened."
Half-day strategic pivot session, 9 participants
Priya Venkataraman
Executive Director
Groundwork Ecology Fund
Portland, OR
Let's design your session.
Tell us what you're navigating. We'll figure out the right format, the right room setup, and the right sequence of activities to get you to a decision.
180+
Sessions Facilitated
5–400
Participants
12 yrs
In Practice
Need something to circulate
before you can book a call?
The Facilitation Rider outlines exactly how Convene sessions work — room setup requirements, technology needs, session formats available, participant ranges, and pricing tiers. Built for L&D directors who need to move an internal approval before they can make a call.
- Room requirements & setup diagrams
- Session formats: half-day, full-day, multi-day
- Pricing tiers by team size
- What to tell your participants beforehand
- How to evaluate facilitation quality
The Facilitation Rider
PDF · 8 pages · Updated Feb 2026