No-Cringe Icebreaker for Adults
If you’ve got three minutes, you’re about to walk away with a brilliant, no-cringe icebreaker for adults that actually matters. I’m in Toronto, getting ready to keynote for the Association for the Advancement of International Education (AAIE). And the irony isn’t lost on me: there’s literally a ship benefiting from an icebreaker right behind me. […]
5 Activities to Make Your Next Group 10x More Interesting
If you follow this framework from start to finish, you will have a clear plan for roughly one hour of creative, generative exercises that invite participation, deepen connection, and make learning more experiential. This approach is built around a simple idea: people learn better when they get connected. Instead of centering everything on content delivery, […]
How To Edit The Future In 4½ Minutes
Originally recorded live at the Association for Experiential Education International Conference after Chad Littlefield’s interactive opening keynote. Graphic Recording by Mellisa Cain of Iceberg Creatives. How do you actually edit the future? In this video, I’m going to summarize a 45-minute interactive keynote where I attempted to bring this question to life. This fast-forward summary […]
How to (Really) Build Psychological Safety
This one’s going to be a hard one. This morning, while loading my kindergartner into the car for school, emotions went from zero to volcano in about 30 seconds. Really, really high. He ran to Mom, his safe place and shared everything with her, calmed down, and then came back to the car quiet as […]
How Do You Design Inclusive Events?
How do you design inclusive events? No, really. I’m asking you. This was the exact question that hit me when I was designing the Connectors Summit, an event bringing together 400 people in a single virtual space. I suddenly realized: There are 399 other perspectives here besides my own.How do I make sure this event […]
5 Uncommon Strategies to Make Group Connection Easy
Featuring expert facilitators: Jan Keck, Manal Sayid, Romy, Adam Rosendahl, and Chad Littlefield. Come to the Connectors Summit online December 10 – 12 to experience this group live online! Five brilliant facilitators are about to bring you five uncommon, creative strategies to make group connection easy, impactful, and truly human. These ideas are simple to […]
Fun Activity to Start a Business Meeting
Most business meetings start the same way: people trickle in, check their phones, make small talk, and wait for everyone else to arrive. But here’s the funny thing by waiting for the latecomers, we actually reward lateness and punish punctuality. So what if you flipped that? What if the first few minutes of every meeting […]
5 Minute No Prep Team Building Activities
When we think about team building, it’s often imagined as a one-time event, a single day packed with activities, connection, and maybe even some laughter. But then Monday comes, and everyone goes back to their separate worlds, inboxes, and task lists. That’s how most organizations treat team building: an offsite event, not an ongoing practice. […]
Thoughtful Team Building Exercise For Small Groups
One of the most powerful ways to connect with others and with yourself is to pause and explore how your values have shown up across time. In this exercise, inspired by my live facilitation and the wisdom of my business coach Dan Sullivan, you’ll learn how to “time travel” in conversation. It’s a beautifully simple […]
How to Turn Any Question Into a Powerful One
FUTURE-FOCUSED TEAM BUILDING QUESTIONS