Leader As Convener creates a different kind of room—one where people show up, speak what matters, and take responsibility for what they create together.
Bring Leader As Convener to your organization and create the conditions for people to participate, contribute, and take ownership of what happens next.
Meaningful participation is a choice.
Traditional leadership often focuses on getting people
aligned, engaged, or bought in. Leader As Convener starts
somewhere different: with the belief that people choose
whether and how they participate.
Leaders learn to shift the conversation—from advice to
curiosity, from answers to questions, and from managing
people’s engagement to creating the conditions where
ownership, belonging, and accountability can emerge.
Create a choice people can genuinely say yes to.
Make room for people to discover and name what matters.
Create belonging through conversations that change how people relate.
People are more likely to support what they help create.
It begins with changing the conversation.
Leader As Convener® gives leaders a practical way to shift the quality of conversation in a room. These six conversations create space for possibility, ownership, honesty, commitment, gifts, and genuine invitation.
Shift attention from problems and deficiencies toward the future people want to create.
Invite people to name their role in creating the current reality and the future they want.
Make room for doubt, disagreement, and authentic refusal rather than demanding agreement.
Move from vague intention toward promises people are genuinely willing to make.
Focus attention on the capacities, contributions, and strengths already present in the room.
Create a choice people can freely make rather than trying to persuade or mandate participation.
The goal is not to control the conversation. It is to create conditions where people can choose belonging, participation, and ownership.
Leader As Convener can be experienced as a focused workshop or as a deeper immersion designed to help leaders practice, reflect, and apply the work over time.
Learn the practice of convening.
Explore the principles and Six Conversations that create the conditions for meaningful participation, belonging, and shared ownership.
Ideal for leaders, facilitators, consultants, and teams who want practical tools they can begin using immediately.
Go deeper into the practice.
Create more time for reflection, experimentation, and application as participants explore how convening can shift the way they lead and gather others.
Designed for organizations looking to build a deeper shared practice of convening across leaders or teams.
“A sense of belonging is so crucial. This training helped me humanize the spaces I work in and cultivate greater belonging.”
“I know a lot of folks looking for this kind of community.”
“The conversations gave me a completely different way to think about how I invite people into the work.”
Bring Leader As Convener directly to your organization virtually or in person. Build a common language for participation, belonging, ownership, and the conversations that make them possible.
Bring Convener to Your Organization →Send one or two leaders to experience the work firsthand, practice the Six Conversations, and explore whether a broader organizational experience makes sense.
View Public Workshops →Convening is not a technique to master once. Coaching and facilitated support can help leaders continue applying the conversations in real meetings, gatherings, and organizational challenges.
Work through real convening challenges and strengthen your ability to create invitation, participation, and ownership.
Build a shared practice among leaders and reflect together on how the Six Conversations are being used.
Partner with Designed Learning to think differently about an important gathering, conversation, or community process.
Whether you’re rethinking leadership, building stronger communities of practice, creating more meaningful gatherings, or strengthening belonging and shared ownership, tell us what you’re working toward. We’ll help you explore what Leader As Convener could make possible.
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