Today's discussion features Matt Homann, CEO and Founder of Filament, an organization that designs, facilitates, and hosts collaborative meetings, conferences, off-sites and any type of human collaboration environment, with the objective of enabling meetings to produce measurable results that move organizations forward.

For more than 20 years, Matt has been involved in the leadership spaces of designing creative experiences in everything including learning, skill building, collaboration and knowledge delivery. From building in person and virtual spaces that allow people to have better meetings, which he does at Filament today, to using arts to teach business skills, all the way to disseminating hard to explain concepts through illustrations and the drawing of pictures. Matt is an attorney by trade, holding a JD from the Washington University St. Louis School of Law, and not only spent time practicing earlier in his career, but also taught pre-trial practice and procedure as an adjunct professor of law at his alma mater.

Matt describes how he's explicitly stitched together the many opportunities in his career in areas like law, with the collection of experiences in creative design thinking type endeavors as a consultant and leader, and his experiences as entrepreneurship building innovative conferences and meeting places. It's clear that Matt is one of the top practitioners in helping people and organizations collaborate better together.

Themes of the episode:

-How to build useful spaces (in person and now virtually) that allow us to do what we want to do, whether that's creating innovative products, or ideating around cultural transformations

-How virtual meetings have translated the same terrible cultural qualities of in person meetings to this new online reality, with intensified challenges of inclusiveness and attentiveness

-How Changing the meeting culture comes from the top, and how the status and connection of reporting out to leadership about the organizations direction, has trickled down in our organizations and has formed prohibitive collaboration behaviors don't move business forward

-How to have better meetings, and why doing so can make your people up to 40% more effective: from tips like scheduling 47 minute meetings to build gaps in back to back scheduling, and removing ppt and other artifacts away from collaboration time, to asynchronous collaboration and the meaning of what it is to truly prepare for a meeting

-How to build better conferences, where networking, learning, and connection isn't as much a serendipitous and ad-hoc condition, but more of a engineered outcome by conference facilitators

Thanks for listening!

Ways to contact Matt:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/matthomann

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/homann/

Resources:

Filament: https://www.thefilament.com/

The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker: https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Executive-Definitive-Getting-Things/dp/B01N51TCT1/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3GGCYWT8AMD50&dchild=1&keywords=effective+executive&qid=1588683249&s=audible&sprefix=effective+%2Caudible%2C199&sr=1-1

So Good they Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport: https://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You/dp/B009CMO8JQ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=so+darn+good+they+can%27t+ignore+you&qid=1588683210&sr=8-1

The Motive: Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities by Patrick Lencioni: https://www.amazon.com/Motive-Leaders-Abdicate-Important-Responsibilities-ebook/dp/B0851K989D/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ECZ0KBANMUS0&dchild=1&keywords=patrick+lencioni&qid=1588599671&sprefix=patrick+lan%2Caps%2C191&sr=8-1

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