About Great Meetings! Inc.

”Managing a successful meeting takes planning and preparation, a host of facilitation skills and a bag full of process tools.”
Dee Kelsey and Pam Plumb

Great Meetings! Inc. is dedicated to transforming the way organizations manage their meetings.  Dee Kelsey, Pam Plumb and their associates have decades of experience in facilitation and training.

Why work with us?

Clients praise our effective, down-to-earth, customized, affordable products and services. We can make a difference in your organization.

• We have years of facilitation experience in a wide variety of environments
• We practice facilitation and teach based on practical experience
• We provide consistently top quality products and services
• We deliver custom-designed workshops and training on time and within budget

We are passionate about meetings.  Why?  Because over and over we have seen groups with the right skills generate great ideas, avoid decisions that would have taken them down the wrong road, redefine the direction of their organization and change their communities for the better.

If managers, leaders or group facilitators are not trained in these facilitation skills, it can lead to poor meetings, wasted time and money and, worst of all, frustration and no results.

We know from our experience that it is possible for anyone to learn good facilitation skills. Strong, clear meeting results mean organizations work more productively and cost effectively while generating increased employee satisfaction.

Workshop participants say:

"The process of meeting preparation is extremely important to ensuring that we have effective meetings. It’s not something that we all have taken enough time in learning about.. "

"Concrete ‘take-away skills’ that will be very useful in everyday work environment…"

"Thank you for the skill, effort and caring you put into the program. I was reminded again and again of the depth of your tool bag and your ability to know quickly when a tool was needed and when. Equally important, you fostered an atmosphere of support so that it was okay to make a mistake"