Get the right people in a room. Let's do something with it.
Decisions to make. Skills to practise. Something to build together.
You've brought people together for a reason. I help turn that reason into a session where people contribute, work through the difficult bits and leave knowing what happens next.
I've been facilitating since I was twenty-two. Learning design is the craft behind the session: what the room needs, how we get there and what people will be able to do afterwards.
Three ways to bring me in
Mine, yours, or one built for your own facilitators.
Facilitate your session
You've got the question, the content or the agenda. I help people engage with it, hear each other and work towards the decisions or outputs you need. Strategy days, offsites, team conversations and workshops.
Design and run it with you
You know what needs to change. We work backwards from that to build the session: the right questions, activities and opportunities to practise. Then I deliver it with your people.
Build something your people can run
When a workshop needs to work beyond one room, Learn Awesome can help create the learning, materials and facilitator guidance for your team to deliver it again.
See it before you book it
Two minutes is usually enough to know.
A few places to start
Sessions I already run.
Built, tested and running. Any of them can be run privately for your team, or reshaped around your brief.
The Speaking Gym
Practise explaining your ideas, holding attention and speaking with more confidence. Time on your feet, trying it and getting feedback.
Ask about it → Hands onUseful AI and building with it
Bring a real task. Explore what AI can help with, try it and check what it produces. The scope might be a workflow, a piece of content or a small prototype.
The talk version → WorkshopRock. Do. Suck.
Work out what the team should protect, where it needs support and what it can stop spending energy on.
The talk version → WorkshopCustomers, offers and go-to-market
Get the knowledge out of different people's heads and into an approach the team can use.
How I work on this → For adults and the kids in their livesPress Start Together
Adults and kids making a retro game together, learning through the build and spending time in each other's world.
Uncle Steve →Before the day
What do you need to leave with?
A decision. A shared plan. Practice at a skill. A first version of something you can test.
We agree that before the day, then design the time around it. I make space for different voices, keep track of what's emerging and help the group bring the work to a useful close.
What do they need to understand by the end?
What do they need to actually go and do afterwards?
How should the room feel walking out?
The workshop only contains what people need to do the job, not everything the expert knows. I wrote a book about that mistake: The Enough Bucket.
What the room says
The part people write down is what they can use.
Thirteen of the ninety-nine written comments mention something practical: examples, demos, ideas they could take back. That's the bit a workshop lives or dies on.
"Really engaging. Enjoyed the demos and scenarios."
CelesteJHG"Punchy and lively. Things actually useful for us, BAU and projects."
KatyNobleOak"Great practical ideas."
KathrynAstraZeneca"Love practical takeaways."
ErinFlight Centre"Steve is one of the best I have seen."
KylaCSIRO"Great fun. Enjoyed the examples of different ways hybrid learning could look."
TiffanySlalom"Great specific examples."
LisaANSTO"Challenges the status quo of traditional L&D."
MitchellLink Wentworth"Great energy and more valuable than the NIDA workshop."
KelseyUNSWBring me the brief you've got.
Tell me who's coming, what's happening and what needs to be different afterwards. We can work out the session from there.
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