Douglas Ferguson

Founder and President of Austin-based facilitation agency Voltage Control, a Design Sprint and innovation expert, master facilitator, speaker, and author of three books.
 https://voltagecontrol.com/

Douglas Ferguson is an entrepreneur and human-centered technologist with over 20 years of experience. He is the Founder and President of Voltage Control, an Austin-based facilitation agency that specializes in helping teams work better together through participatory decision making and design-inspired facilitation techniques. He has helped transform teams from U.S. SOCOM, the Air Force, Adobe, Dropbox, Fidelity, Vrbo, Liberty Mutual, Humana, and SAIC.

Douglas is a thought leader and master facilitator of Design Sprints, Innovation Workshops, Team Alignment Workshops, Transformations, Meeting Systems, and Culture Workshops. He is also the author of three books: Beyond the Prototype, How to Remix Anything (co-authored), and Start Within (co-authored).

Motivated by a mission to rid the world of horrible meetings and offer meaningful meetings in their place, Voltage Control is calling upon fellow facilitators to transform meeting and innovation culture. From free weekly community meetups to Control the Room–the annual facilitator summit, Voltage Control is building a community of facilitators to change the world.

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All Sessions by Douglas Ferguson

  • Day 2

    August 6, 2021

  • 9:00 am  - 12:00 pm
    Poorly run & unorganized meetings come at a high cost to businesses both financially and culturally. What if our work environments could produce more meaningful and fruitful outcomes? In this interactive workshop, Douglas will share practical strategies to make your meetings more productive. 3-5 Key Audience Takeaways: You will learn 4 meeting mantras and how to implement them that will ensure your meetings to be more resilient. With the move to distributed teams, it's more important than ever for us to focus on shorter, essential meetings. Our 4 meeting mantras include: 1. Do the work in the meeting 2. Disagree and commit 3. Capture room intelligence 4. Contribute value or leave I know you all want to have better meetings. You’re committed to having better outcomes for your companies and doing innovative things. But the force of habit is strong - this could be
    DEI
    Where
    Workshop

  • 4:20 pm  - 5:05 pm
    Poorly run & unorganized meetings come at a high cost to businesses both financially and culturally. What if our work environments could produce more meaningful and fruitful outcomes? In this interactive workshop, Douglas will share practical strategies to make your meetings more productive.
    DEI
    Where
    Main Stage




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