Better Workshops & Meetings
Most workshops are a meeting with stickies.
These aren't.
I design and facilitate sessions that have a job to do — and do it. Not every team needs a workshop. But when the usual way of talking isn't moving things forward, a well-designed session can do in a day what six weeks of meetings can't.
Before anything gets designed, I want to understand what you actually need — not just the stated problem, but what a good outcome looks like and what's been getting in the way.
Sessions I run most often
Kicking off a project
so everyone starts with the same understanding, not their own version of it.
Discovery and research planning
agreeing what you're trying to learn before you start learning it, and how you'll know when you've learned enough.
Quarterly and annual planning
moving from "here's the slide deck" to a room that actually owns the plan.
Value proposition work
translating what you do into what your customers need to hear.
Setting direction
naming where you are, where you want to be, and what's actually standing in the way.
Spencer is an absolutely great Principal Product Manager. He has a keen passion for helping people really understand and identify their own and their client's needs. He very cleverly facilitates the process of building a clear plan forwards that pretty much becomes the baseline to the project.
Alastair Williamson Pound
Senior Product Manager
Spencer is excellent at what he does. He helped us to finally reframe our hard science product into an appealing consumer proposition. Spencer worked with us to design and deliver online workshops, helping us understand and prioritise our customer segments, define our value proposition, refine our membership offering and improve our content clarity.
Nikolina Luac
Founder and CEO
Want a session that actually moves things forward?
Tell me what you're trying to achieve and I'll tell you honestly whether a workshop is the right tool for it.
Where I've done this before:
I don't name clients, but I've designed and run sessions for:
