FACILITATION
Get the Most Out of Critical Conversations: Facilitating Extraordinary Outcomes
Imagine if unlocking your organization's potential was just a conversation away. As your facilitator, I guide you to and through those pivotal dialogues, ensuring they lead to tangible results and lasting impact.
The Cost of Unproductive Conversations:
Research shows only 25% of meetings are deemed valuable and as a result, leaders waste tens of thousands of dollars on unproductive meetings a quarter. By contrast, engaging an experienced facilitator optimizes your most important conversations, saves time and money, and fosters breakthrough results.
Transformative Facilitation:
I design and lead conversations that clients describe as "the best we've ever had," generating "committed action" and driving organizations to "previously unimaginable heights."
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My expertise lies in facilitating conversations that are:
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Crucial but difficult: Conversations that are often avoided due to their complexity or sensitivity.
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High-Potential: Conversations that hold the power to unlock significant opportunities for your organization.
“Brent has the ability to bring out people’s thoughts, truths, realities, experiences in a way that is really productive.”
Dan Joseph, Co-founder, Corridor Ventures and Apparent Capital
Focus Areas
Leadership Team Development
Vision &
Strategy
 Build a high-performing team that operates in harmony, delivers decisive action, and achieves exceptional results.
Craft a compelling vision and strategy that inspires your team and sets your organization on a path to success.
Succession Planning
Develop a robust succession plan that ensures the smooth transition of leadership and sustained organizational growth.
Scaling Your Business
Design the infrastructure, relationships, and initiatives needed to propel your organization to the next level.
Fueling Innovation
Merger & Acquisition Integration
Navigating Disruption
Foster an environment conducive to breakthrough thinking and implement innovative solutions that drive sustainable progress.
Ensure a smooth and productive integration of cultures, leadership teams, and processes, setting clear expectations and driving performance.
Prepare your organization to thrive in a rapidly changing environment, embracing disruptive technologies and adapting to new market dynamics.
Conquering Challenges
Introduce fresh perspectives and frameworks to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles and achieve remarkable results.
My Services​
Retreat Design & Facilitation
Plan and help lead impactful retreats that deliver clear outcomes.
Meeting Strategy Development
Eliminate unproductive meetings and establish an efficient system.
Meeting Design & Facilitation
Optimize your meetings for maximum productivity and engagement.
Advanced Facilitation Training
Equip your team with powerful facilitation skills.
“I call Brent the Yoda of the boardroom, he really is this wise, honed ability to help companies do the really hard thing of crafting and casting their own future.”
Scott Wilson, Chief of Staff - Goodroot
For over 20 years, I've crafted transformative conversations, retreats, and meetings for global giants like Salesforce, SAP, Cisco, and GE, my impact extends to fast-growing companies like Goodroot, Corridor Ventures, and LandSouth, and I've empowered non-profit organizations like Keep America Beautiful, United Way, and the YWCA.
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Behind these extraordinary outcomes lies Generative Listening, a powerful practice that unlocks the hidden potential of your team. It allows me to tap into their collective intelligence, intuition, and insights – resources often untapped and underutilized.
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Generative Listening is so transformative that it has become the most sought-after program for leading leadership organizations like Vistage, YPO, and others.
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See how it can transform your team.
“Brent has the ability to be very curious, to ask questions, to think about all issues from a real human perspective and with leadership and purpose in mind.”
Jessica Rich, Co-CEO - The Walker Group
Be Generative
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Equipping leaders for a future without precedent