
Adrian Segar
I #design & #facilitate #conferences that become what attendees want & need
🔸 ❤️ to facilitate #connection, #sing, #dance, #meditate
🔸 Author of 3 books on meeting design
🔸 17 years of 900+ posts on #MeetingDesign #facilitation #consulting #LifeLessons #FacilitatingChange, being trapped in an elevator with a Nobel Prize winner & other #stories at https://conferencesthatwork.com
🔸 Brit living happily in #Vermont USA since 1978
🔸 #Nonprofit board member junkie
🔸 Recovering #academic
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The fairest rules for meetings. Photograph of a card showing the six rules Adrian Segar uses for meetings: The Four Freedoms and two other agreements. The card is laying on a notebook, together with a pen and glasses.

specialist or generalist: illustration of a quote by Dr. William J. Mayo " A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less." Photo attribution: Flickr user environmental_illness_network

Photograph "Two British sailors and their girlfriends wading in the fountains in Trafalgar Square on VE Day" from the collection of the Imperial War Museums.


stuff breaks: photograph of two women repairing a bicycle on a cobbled street. Photo attribution: Flickr user pedrosek

Illustration of The Public Health Pledge, creating standards for safer events


Still from the 1995 movie "Leaving Las Vegas" of alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter Ben Sanderson (Nicolas Cage) sitting in a Las Vegas cocktail lounge, staring at a Martini as he drinks himself into oblivion. A speech bubble says "Goodbye Twitter".

Trapped in an elevator. An elevator at CERN: Image attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marc_buehler/ / CC BY-NC 2.0


A large conference audience sits facing a speaker on a stage beneath an enormous clock, its blurred hands suggesting the rapid passage of time. Warm stage lighting illuminates the room, with city views visible through tall windows on both sides.

A cartoon of two people in business suits walking towards each other in front of a conference venue displaying a banner "The Association Conference". The woman on the left is smiling and carrying a briefcase labeled "Revenue Opportunities". The man on the right is nervously clutching a folder labeled "Community Mission".

build an optimum program: photograph of a woman having a hard time riding a bike. Image attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bike/ / CC BY-SA 2.0

effective sharing: two teachers in a Marlboro Elementary School classroom prepare tea for their students. Image attribution: Amy Kolb Noyes