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DiversiFaciliTraining – What if your participants are completely not like you?

  • 02/26/2016
  • 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Government Accountability Office (GAO), 441 G St, NW, Washington, DC, room 2N30

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What if participants are not your clone?  Perhaps, facilitating an all-“something” Board, and you’re the minority.  A summit of 200 angry immigrants?  Keynoting internationally?  Moderating a public forum?  Emcee’ing a conference with 12 non-English languages?


Whether the gig is overseas or downtown DC, when the difference is culture, religion, language, or other diversities, what becomes paramount are the Big C’s (Communication, Collaboration, Control & Consensus.)  If the Big C’s are at risk, achieving Objectives can become nearly impossible. 


Learn the secrets that help make EVERY participant, including virtual attendees, understand you, and ensure that they feel included, understood and valued.


Participants will:
  • Understand the critical importance, and how, to do your homework
  • Learn & laugh from case studies, and the lessons learned of what NOT to do.
  • Understand the barriers to communication & practice “deliberate listening”
  • Understand the 7 principles of working with diversity
  • Learn & practice the 5 secrets that work ALL THE TIME in Facilitating, Training & Speaking engagements
  • As time allows, share many more techniques

Bill Olsen is a professional Facilitator, Trainer & Speaker focused on delivering accelerated results through Creative Thinking & Problem Solving.  His high-impact sessions produce tangible outcomes and strong consensus, while being dynamic, interactive and practical... okay, they’re fun!  As a Navy Commander, he applied Creative Problem Solving to achieve the Nation’s “Silver Hammer Award for Reinventing Government”.  Facilitating, he’s helped clients win their own Silver Hammers, and multiple clients saying; “Reached our 5-yr goal in X months”.  Recognized with many Presenter awards, and consistently ranked in the “Top-20” of the global FindAFacilitator.com database, his mission is clear… to Accelerate Yours. 


Bill has facilitated, trained, keynoted and emcee’d in 19 different countries, as well as multiple summit-size events in metro DC and NYC, when the audience was predominantly diverse for a variety of reasons.  As the lead facilitator/speaker/trainer, he’s been the only person not in a wheel chair, the only white guy amongst 45 African-American Physicians, the only Christian male educating 200+ Muslim women, the only foreigner presenting to 350+ South African primary school teachers, the only heterosexual at the LGBT end-the-military-ban summit, and the only mono-language-speaking facilitator at multiple European events.  Clients keep asking him back.  

If you pay for an individual MAFN workshop session and cancel before the registration deadline, MAFN will either credit your full registration fee towards a future workshop or process a refund, less a processing fee.


There will be no refunds or credits for cancellations received after the registration deadline.


Refunds, less a processing fee, are only available for workshop series subscribers until the September workshop of each year.

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