Yo, I fix your “that meeting could’ve been an email” problem
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Would you rather go to the dentist than join a work meeting?
If so, you’re part of 61% of the world who would literally rather open their mouths and have a stranger poke their gums with sharp instruments until they bleed…than press “join meeting” on Zoom, Google Meet or Teams.
Meetings suck. Someone is in a bad mood, someone's laptop isn't working, someone is hungry, someone comes 27 minutes late, someone leaves 11 minutes in, someone brings up what Sally said during all-hands, most people are not listening and replying to Slack messages, and suddenly we have 5 more minutes to come to a decision that we don't have time to make and so, guess what, we schedule another meeting.
Or maybe 25 people sat through a "mandatory" workshop or training where someone droned through slides for 90 minutes and the only thing anyone remembers is how hard they had to work to look like they were paying attention.
And on it goes. The endless repeat of meeting tax.
Are we doomed forever?
What if I could take you from
Bad meetings, pointless ideation workshops, and training no one remembers -> sessions people actually leave energized from (t-shirt and all)
(Reading in spare minutes between meetings? Here’s the TL;DR: I'm an expert in facilitation — I run the workshops, training sessions, and strategy days that actually move teams forward, instead of just scheduling another meeting about it.)
How expensive are your meetings?
You have Dave, Larry, Peter, Mandy, Sally, and George sitting in a meeting, a glorious mix of c-suite and directors. They’re on their third edition of a strategy meeting, which was originally derailed because Peter was sick, and then derailed again when George brought up the offsite planning, and now, everyone in the room is sweating because their about to plan their fourth meeting to figure out strategy.
Or product and account management are fighting (as always, lets be real) and they sit in an endless loop of meetings trying to prioritize customer needs and what has to happen next.
Or the team of designers is sitting through another call with Ned who had an idea in the shower for the greatest feature ever that needs to be built right now, so there needs to be a solution. Yesterday.
Or maybe 57 people sat in a workshop training where someone droned on about something of which no one can remember because everyone was busying answering emails or pinging each other about omg this is soooooo boring i wanna claw my eyes out.
And this happens every day. $£€$£€ $£€ $£€ $£€ $£€ (I’ve run out of symbols).
No wonder people hate meetings…
But wait, is there another way?
I’m so glad you asked. Yes. Hiring a facilitator (that’s me 👋).
I come to your organization to design and facilitate the meetings, workshops, strategy sessions, and trainings that actually move things forward so your team can focus on their work instead of dreading the next calendar invite.
You no longer have to deal with endless loops of meetings that come to no decision, lack of progress on projects that your boss keeps asking you about, an idea stuck in prototype purgatory, that worn down feeling of joining a minute past the start time because you just can’t anymore, or making risky decisions because no one can align on because there’s no other choice.
Instead, you can be the hero.
Together, we can make your life easier, as well as everyone else’s in the organization, and that’s what people truly value. We can make work more enjoyable for everyone, make teams more innovative. Make people enjoy meetings because, no matter how much we hate them…
Meetings and the most human part of our work/day.
So let me help you and your team with:
Strategy and planning sessions where I help leadership set direction, prioritize, and actually make decisions, instead of scheduling a fourth meeting to discuss the decision about the decision.
Ideation, innovation, and problem-solving sessions like design sprints and ideation workshops where we figure out what the real issue is and solve it together. No shower ideas required (but Ned is still welcome to attend).
Off-sites through kick-ass quarterly planning, team building, vision and mission work, and retrospectives that don't feel like an endless corporate nightmare. People leave energized. Yes, really.
Alignment sessions when you have two teams who'd rather fight than collaborate. I get people who want to punch each other in the face into the same room, on the same page, and actually moving forward.
Hands-on sessions that teach your team real user research skills without making anyone want to yeet their laptop out a window. People leave actually excited to do research. I've seen it happen.
Making regular meetings useful and productive, with (gasp!) an agenda, a framework, and a facilitator who knows what they're doing. You're welcome.
If this sounds up your alley, I’d love to chat to hear more about what you need and what struggles you’re facing:
Hello.
I’m Nikki.
Facilitator, Speaker + User Researcher
From the age of five, I was deemed the facilitator:
I was the neighborhood kid who helped lead the discussion on where we should explore next
I helped to mend many a broken friend and broken hearts
I brainstormed and led creative sessions with my two best friends creating a new world of PokeMon (honestly, we drew 151 PokeMon, a world, items, trainers, gym badges, the whole thing!)
I was the one who made the plan for sleepovers from what we’d do, what we’d eat, what we’d watch, and the exact order it would all happen in
As I have now (mostly) grown up, I have been a user researcher and facilitator in the tech/product space for 12 years doing fun things like:
Facilitated 300+ working sessions
Produced 100+ decision-ready deliverables (journey maps, personas, service blueprints) teams actually used
Took teams from “we need research” → “we know what to build” in a single working session
Resolved team friction in 50+ sessions
Reduced unnecessary meetings by 65% at 20+ orgs
Trained 2000+ people in user research
Spoken on the topic of user research at 30+ conferences and countless webinars
All to say, I actually love running workshops, trainings, meetings and working sessions. And I want to bring that joy and relief to you. Let’s do it!