Leading Collaboration 🚀
​Step into a new leadership paradigm in this interactive session that reimagines leadership, focusing on unlocking collaboration through facilitation and collaboration. In today's rapidly changing landscape, a new breed of leadership is emerging: one that requires facilitative skills and the ability to navigate uncertainty.🌱
​Join Douglas Ferguson, President of Voltage Control, to explore how shifting from a presenter mindset to a facilitator's can usher in a new era of innovative leadership and collaborative teams.
​Learn how encouraging a culture of critique, curiosity, and inquiry can lead to a wellspring of transformative ideas, and find out how asking the right questions can often be more impactful than having all the answers.
​In this immersive session, Douglas will engage you in experiential learning activities that highlight the pivotal role facilitation plays in modern leadership. We will delve into the mechanics of facilitative leadership, demonstrating how to leverage these principles to drive organizational growth and resilience. Facilitative leadership is more than a skill; it's a mindset shift. 🔥
​By the end of this session, we will:
​Identify the 5 key qualities of facilitative leadership
​Learn how to apply facilitative leadership in your work
​Plan for further ways to grow as a facilitative leader
​Join us, and prepare to see leadership in a whole new light.🤩
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​About the host:
​Douglas is an entrepreneur and human-centered technologist with over 26 years of experience. He is president of Voltage Control, a facilitation academy that develops leaders through certifications, workshops, and organizational coaching focused on facilitation mastery, innovation, and play. He has helped transform leaders, innovators, and creatives from Nike, U.S. SOCOM, Google, the Air Force, Gap, Tesla, MSU, Church & Dwight, Apple, Adobe, Dropbox, Fidelity, Vrbo, Liberty Mutual, Humana, and SAIC.
​Prior to Voltage Control, Douglas held CTO positions at numerous Austin startups, where he led product and engineering teams using agile, lean, and human-centered design principles. While CTO at Twyla, Douglas worked directly with Google Ventures running Design Sprints, and now brings this experience and process to companies everywhere.
​Douglas is currently active in the Austin startup community, where he serves on the board of several non-profits, mentors startups, and advises early-stage ventures.
​For the smoothest experience, do join using Google Chrome on a laptop or PC or download our desktop app. Since we're usually using MURAL or Miro in our workshops, we recommend joining in with your ad blockers turned off (temporarily) and not in incognito mode.​