Workshop Design & Facilitation
I love creating shared mental models that anchor productive conversations and align actionable decisions. I'll be the first to drop a figjam link, and upload a sticky note drawing of customer mental models.
Using iterative sprints to give direction to a new team
Within a month of joining the company, one of my teams was struggling to align on quarterly deliverables and risks.
By facilitating this workshop I was able to anchor the team in research and design sprints that guided their roadmap towards a build/buy decision.
Turning gumdrop towers into a real life example of siloes
"deserves a standing ovation for how well it put a super fine point on how we could overcome the silo'd operations we've been working within. So very meta."
-Engineering Manager
"Lauren killed this! The number of times we referenced this exercise throughout the on-site speaks for itself."
- Engineering Manager
When asked facilitate a team building exercise for our Engineering Managers, I turned the typical tower building exercise on it's head by allowing materials to be traded through a single contact. This put a fine point on their real problem: siloed communication, and tee'd up 3 days of working sessions to create more effective rituals.
Using anonymity to align competing business units
Presented stakeholder interviews as anonymized perspectives that defused tension and aligned disparate business-units on their company's purpose and opportunities for product evolution.
“We're feeling really good about where we've landed coming out of this engagement.”
- Executive VP