“Leading Innovation ’n Collaboration through Facilitation”

Master Meeting Facilitation

“A Facilitator is a content-neutral task leader who forms a group of people into a collaborative team, supporting consensus and uses a range of processes to enable the group to accomplish their task. The Facilitator is responsible for the context.” (Rush, 2013)


Discover how Gary Rush, IAF CPF | Emeritus Enables Team Collaboration 

Why Facilitated Workshops?

Facilitated workshops convene because groups have a stake in, interest about, or knowledge of a particular topic and need to work in a collaborative environment that encourages full participation.

Whether Ideation, Virtual, Large Groups, Consensus-Building.

I bring my experience in a wide variety of processes, issues, number of participants, face-to-face or virtual, to design a unique workshop to meet your needs that engages the right stakeholders to develop the right outcome.

How Significant is the value of facilitation?

Facilitated workshops have been proven to deliver significant value to any organization; they not only save you money, they also build engagement, build ownership, and enable effective decision-making.

Read “The Value of Facilitatiion”

"Methods such as Agile, Scrum, Six Sigma, Lean, and others all prescribe using facilitated workshops to engage stakeholders achieving significant productivity gains."

“My Meeting Facilitation improves client business performance through effective application of state-of-the-art structured facilitation processes. "

Because each workshop is unique, I prepare to understand the desired outcome and dynamics of the participants. I interview to include the wisdom of the group. I design an effective agenda to focus group discussion and thought process enabling a clear outcome. I facilitate fully engaging all using our array of skills, active listening, and tools to encourage participation, improve communication, and understanding, while guiding participants to consensus.

Workshops and projects facilitated by us have increased productivity resulting in a 20% to 40% reduction in effort required to gather information - such as...

  • EDS/GM combined Corporate Information Management - their first strategic plan.
  • U.S. Treasury Department Financial Management Services (FMS) - 15-workshops to define requirements - process models - for a complete re-engineering of the payment and claim system - took 6 months instead of 2 years.
  • ABPMP - Association of Business Process Management Professional - Strategic Plan broadening their view to worldwide.
  • Cisco Systems to define their business data model for their Customer Data Warehouse - pulling together "customer" information.
  • ADA - Academy of Doctors of Audiology - strategic direction with over 100 key members reaching consensus.
  • National Association of Insurance Commissioners' (NAIC) Y2K contingency plan - all 50 Insurance Commissioners reaching consensus.
  • Milwaukee County Justice Information Systems - business data model - enabling effective communication between police, district attorneys, and case workers.
  • INTEL's project plan for implementing their global general ledger system - engaging all stakeholders, becoming one of their most successful projects.
  • United Health Care DPS - data warehouse process and data models - the first time that they were able to share demographic data.
  • Star Alliance where they identified that in-flight Wi-Fi was possible - a critical service offering on airlines today.
  • Texas Joint Military Forces 2035 Strategic Plan - reviewing this 4-page plan, the length of the U.S. Constitution, is now part of their monthly meetings - something they were unable to do previously.
  • MUFG - facilitated the Logical Business Data Model forming the basis of their vulnerabilities data warehouse.

What People Say

“Gary is a world-class trainer. The FoCuSeD™ facilitation framework is exceptional, crafted by an expert, based on years of cumulative experience, iterated to maximize its potential, developed to provide structure and consistency, anyone who is asked to serve as a facilitator can enhance their skills by reaching out to Gary. The skills gained from his tutelage will undoubtedly enhance my career. Thanks, Gary. “

Shawn D., MBA

Contact Gary

Interested in having Gary Rush IAF CPF | Emeritus facilitate your meeting?  Gary has facilitated many types of meetings including Strategic Plans, Data Models, Requirements, Team Building, Problem-Solving, Process Models, Design, etc.

What students are saying…

“Thank you again for such a great class.  I leaned a ton and really valued the time in class.” - Melissa, Texas Department of Agriculture

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