MAFN Online Workshop: Complement, Don’t Compete: A Facilitator Match-Up

Duration:  90 minutes

About the workshop: 

What if other facilitators weren’t your competition, but your next collaborators? In this hands-on networking session, you’ll connect with fellow facilitators and adjacent professionals in a fast-paced format inspired by the “Heuristic Ideation” method. Discover where your services align, where they differ, and how that mix could open new doors—for referrals, partnerships, or new income streams.

Learning Objectives 

In this session, participants will:

(1) Discover Collaboration Opportunities - Identify professionals whose skills and services complement yours, opening the door to joint projects, co-facilitation, or cross-promotion. 

(2) Generate Warm Leads and Referrals - Find people who serve different markets or clients but could refer work your way and vice versa. 

(3) Clarify Your Unique Value - Gain fresh insight into what makes your work stand out by comparing and contrasting with others in the field.

NOTE: Networking sessions are NOT recorded

This is a 90-minute online networking session. It will take place at 11:00am - 12:30pm EST.

Speaker: 

Lee Gimpel is a professional facilitator and the founder of Better Meetings in Washington, DC, where he helps organizations create engaging and participatory meetings, retreats, and conferences. His work emphasizes collaboration through methods like Liberating Structures, which he uses to help clients like Sodexo, Conservation International, and the US Treasury. Lee is also the creator of the Conference Improvement Kit, a tool designed to improve event interaction. He studied improv at Coalition Theater and Washington Improv Theater, using this experience to infuse his facilitation with creativity and play. He writes about meetings for Forbes and serves on the board of the Association of Meeting Professionals.