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Control the Room Summit: Taylor Cone, Founder & CEO at Lightshed, speaks about how to maximize the creative output of teams in his presentation “Designing Inclusive Collaborations to Leverage Team Diversity.”
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Hailey Temple, Learning Experience Lead at MURAL, about injecting humanity into our meetings, widening the boundaries of your understanding, and creating spaces for all to flourish.
Voltage Control's recipe for better meeting culture: 1) Psychological safety 2) Clearly outlined procedures and expectations 3) Meetings are opportunities, not obligations
Christina Wodtke, author of best-selling book Radical Focus and a lecturer at Stanford University, has helped grow companies such as LinkedIn, Zynga, Yahoo, and The…
Douglas Ferguson speaks with Kai Haley, Head of UX Methods and Processes & Founder of Sprint Master Academy at Google, about Google Sprint Masters, the delicate balance between data and design, and how knowledge sharing creates resilient product teams.
Please join us for the Control the Room 2021, which will be held Feb. 2-4, 2020. You can find out more and buy tickets here. This…
This is part of the 2019 Control The Room speaker video series. Control the Room 2019 was Austin’s 1st Annual Facilitator Summit with the goal of…
As AI moves from individual productivity hacks to shared collaboration systems, the real opportunity lies in how whole teams work with AI together. The future of human-AI collaboration isn’t a lone expert asking an AI chatbot for answers—it’s groups using artificial intelligence to map complexity, align decisions, and design better experiences. In this article, we explore how the future of work, learning, and facilitation will change as human-AI collaboration becomes truly multi-player.
Reflecting on the 8th Annual Facilitation Summit, this recap explores how facilitators navigate the “edges” where pressure, uncertainty, and possibility meet. Across two days, leaders like Douglas Ferguson, Dan Walker, Renita Smith, and others explored themes of presence, innovation, trauma-informed facilitation, and the evolving role of facilitators in the age of AI. From analog reflection exercises to embodied group dynamics, the summit highlighted how facilitators create conditions for insight, safety, and collaboration. Discover key lessons on reading the room, holding tension, unlocking collective brilliance, and why human presence—not just tools or agendas—remains the most powerful element of effective facilitation.
Enterprise AI adoption isn’t stalling because leaders lack strategy—it’s stalling at the “edges” where AI reshapes roles, decision rights, workflows, and trust. This article introduces Edge Maps, a lightweight tool debuted at our February summit with 150 leaders that helps teams name thresholds (like human vs. AI authority, governance bottlenecks, tool sprawl, and measurement confusion) and convert anxiety into small, reversible experiments. In just eight minutes, participants mapped Present–Threshold–Future to clarify ownership, create safe learning loops, and build momentum. Learn how to make AI transformation rhythmic, navigable, and scalable.
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