MEET WITH FILAMENT
Every Filament meeting combines creative facilitation with real-time illustration and unique methods proven to help teams leverage their collective wisdom, discover unexpected insights, and get big things done.
Custom Meeting Design
Our customers don’t hire us just because they’ve got a meeting to plan, it’s because they’ve got a problem to solve.
Whether planning a small executive team offsite or a thousand-person conference, we can help you get the most from your time together.
Ready-Made Meetings
Need to gather soon?
Ready-Made Meetings utilize Filament’s proven tools and techniques and can be delivered within a week.
Focus areas include Vision Setting, Strategy Planning, Project Kickoffs, Problem-Solving, and Team Culture.
Sketch Sessions
A Filament Sketch Session helps you tackle a thorny challenge or big opportunity in just three hours.
Last-Minute Meetings
Every month, we identify two open dates and offer a Ready-Made Meeting to new clients and nonprofits at a significant discount.
Great meetings begin with focus. What do you want to accomplish when you gather with us?
DREAM
WHAT COULD WE DO?
Brainstorming sessions where everyone participates equally, shares without fear, generates unconventional ideas, and walks away energized andinspired.
DEBATE
SHOULD WE DO IT?
Journey from blue-sky ideas to feasible next steps through constructive dialog, honest conversation, and thoughtful collaboration.
DECIDE
WHAT WILL WE DO?
Make clear decisions and leave the meeting with a common understanding of the commitments you’ve made and the story you’ll share with the rest of your organization.
DO
HOW WILL WE DO IT?
Turn high-level decisions into concrete action plans, visualize your next steps, clarify responsibilities, and build a timeline to transform ideas into action.
Why Meet At All?
Here are just some of the meetings we’ve built for our customers.
Redesigned a large school district’s professional education model for their 1,400+ teachers.
Developed a two-day “meeting in a box” to help a customer’s global IT teams understand new strategy and staffing model.
Built a multi-day creative "business academy" for a large law firm's high-potential associates to understand how the firm works, how to price more effectively, and how to design new services during a hackathon.
Hosted a 100-attendee conference designed to uncover opportunities for collaboration and partnership in the nonprofit community.
Worked with a leading CPG business to align multi-disciplinary teams around a new e-commerce initiative.
Designed and facilitated a two-day retreat for neurologists, technologists, and healthcare executives to map out the future of virtual care for a large healthcare system.
Led a four-day "sprint" to help a multi-national corporation rethink its retail strategy.
Reimagined a multi-national corporation’s customer-engagement model and designed exercises and activities deployed in its Innovation Center.
Built and facilitated 25+ strategy sessions for a large local university and used the outputs to drive their academic strategy for their 10,000+ students.
Designed and hosted a creative gathering of innovation lab professionals from large businesses around North America.
Facilitated a two-week,1,000 person virtual retreat for a national law firm.
Delivered multiple virtual meetings to encourage better collaboration among plant biologists, geneticists, computer researchers, and industry experts.
Facilitated a virtual problem-solving summit for 70 marine biologists on four continents.
Created a unique executive-level retreat for a national financial services institution to rethink its executive recruiting strategy.
Helped a medical services company chart its strategic path from $1B to $2B in revenues.
Created an "Internet of Things" Summit for an international manufacturer's key technology developers.