Facilitation

"The best way to predict the future is to create it" - Peter Drucker

Facilitation with Mandy Russell from Fresh Horizons Ventures

Mandy facilitates strategy, both online and in person.  She also facilitates her short format ThinkPods™ bringing leaders together to think, strategize and align around specific topics.

Mandy’s ability to hold a room began in 2000 when she began leading Introductions to The Landmark Forum and later became a Seminar Leader, holding space and leading transformative conversations for more than 100 people at a time over a period of 3 months. She then brought those skills into her business, leading Masterminds, Programmes and Workshops within her business.

In 2018 Mandy trained with Mentor Peter Thomas in the Participlan Visual Mapping tool and immediately fell in love with its efficient ability to tap the wisdom in the room and present it in an engaging way that allows for the best strategic outcomes; whilst also saving time and money.

How? The momentum that Participlan Visual Mapping empowers in putting a strategy together minimises the time and opportunity cost of people being out of the business.

Mandy has facilitated strategy for small, medium and large companies, in person and online. Each one of them appreciating that "If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail" (Benjamin Franklin).

A Strategy Session includes:

  • Initial discussion and collaborative design
  • Facilitation and all materials; typically for 1.5 days
  • Report
  • Presentation framework for sharing with stakeholders

A ThinkPod™ Session includes:

  • Initial discussion and collaborative design
  • Facilitation and all materials; typically 2-6 hours
  • Report
RGB digital use

"Mandy was appointed as the facilitator for our Strategic review session, in September 2020. She managed to quickly assess our needs and her proposal captured exactly what we needed as a business. She proposed, as an input into our meeting, a session with our customers, which was a “stroke of genius” and allowed us the ability to hold up a mirror at various points in our strategic session.

The session flowed really well using the ParticiPlan methodology and we achieved a really great set of strategic projects to focus on.

What has been exceptional with Mandy, is that she is in constant communication with me post the session and I feel that she is truly invested in us and the business.

Thank you Mandy, I am looking forward to what the next couple of years hold for us."

From Julie Caldicott – Pinewood DMS South Africa CEO

Online strategy done with a selection of their dealers in October and in person strategy done in November 2020