Adrian Segar

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I design & facilitate #meetings that become what people actually want & need
🔸 ❤️ to #facilitate #connection, #sing, #dance, & #meditate
🔸 Author of 3 books on meeting design
🔸 13 yrs of 800+ posts on #MeetingDesign #facilitation #consulting #LifeLessons #FacilitatingChange and being trapped in an elevator with a Nobel Prize winner & other #stories on conferencesthatwork.com
🔸 Brit living happily in #Vermont USA since 1978
🔸 #Nonprofit board member junkie
🔸 Recovering #academic
Websitehttps://www.conferencesthatwork.com
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/adriansegar
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/ASegar
My bookshttps://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/my-books/
Adrian SegarDec 4, 2023

For heaven's sake! Fake women conference speakers? Meeting professionals, we can do so much better! What we need is fake events!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/satire/2023/12/fake-events/

#fake #speakers #events #satire #humor #eventprofs

Fake women event speakers? We need to think bigger! : Conferences That Work

For heaven's sake! Fake women conference speakers? Meeting professionals, we can do so much better! What we need is fake events!

Conferences That Work
Adrian SegarNov 21, 2023
The German polymath, geographer, naturalist, and explorer Alexander von Humboldt was a meeting designer way ahead of his time!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/11/alexander-von-humboldt/
#Humboldt #meetings #MeetingDesign #science #history #events #eventprofs
Alexander von Humboldt: A meeting designer way ahead of his time : Conferences That Work

The German polymath, geographer, naturalist, and explorer Alexander von Humboldt was a meeting designer way ahead of his time!

Conferences That Work
Adrian SegarNov 13, 2023
https://twitter.com/AlisaValdesRod1/status/1724090053784187028
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, M.S. on X

With Covid cases going vertical in NM I asked to please be allowed to do my keynote for a big childhood health conference in ABQ remotely this week. The organizers, who admitted having gotten covid two weeks ago at another such conference, fired me and demanded the deposit back.

X (formerly Twitter)
Adrian SegarNov 13, 2023
Join me in Rome next week! I'm leading a Best Event Awards Festival masterclass on creating and supporting meaningful participation at events.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/11/join-me-in-rome-this-week/
Adrian SegarNov 3, 2023

The Future Of Conferences Is Unconferences. That's the published conclusion of social and computer scholars in a 2023 #ACM paper.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/10/the-future-of-conferences-is-unconferences

#meetings #EventDesign #unconference #PeerConference #events #eventprofs

The Future Of Conferences Is Unconferences : Conferences That Work

The Future Of Conferences Is Unconferences. That's the published conclusion of social and computer scholars in a 2023 #ACM paper.

Conferences That Work
Adrian SegarOct 21, 2023

🌟 I am honored to be nominated for The Most Influential People in the Events Industry for 2023! 🌟

Let's make it five years in a row!

You can support me by voting at https://eventex.co/people2023 🙏 🗳️

#eventprofs #eventex #eventsindustry

The Most Influential People for 2023 in the Event Industry

These are the people who left a mark on the events world with their creativity, vision, capacity for innovation in 2023. The list recognizes exceptional industry figures from around the globe.

Adrian SegarOct 19, 2023

It doesn't take much to get theater seating right. Face chairs correctly; set them long; flare aisles off-center front at 45°; and keep unbroken rows short.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2013/07/right-and-wrong-ways-to-set-theater-seating/

#seating #meetings #EventDesign #TheaterSeating #events #eventprofs

Right and wrong ways to set theater seating : Conferences That Work

It doesn't take much to get theater seating right. Face chairs correctly; set them long; flare aisles off-center front at 45°; and keep unbroken rows short.

Conferences That Work
Adrian SegarOct 19, 2023

While facilitating, I try to remember that we are all different. Though this is challenging work, it engenders rich rewards.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/facilitation/2023/10/facilitating-try-to-remember-we-are-all-different

#facilitation #meetings #events #differences #EventDesign #eventprofs

Facilitating: try to remember we are all different : Conferences That Work

While facilitating, I try to remember that we are all different. Though this is challenging work, it engenders rich rewards.

Conferences That Work
Adrian SegarOct 10, 2023

The audacious meeting industry offer of a lifetime: I get to pay for the privilege of sharing my expertise!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/eventprofs/2023/10/offer-of-a-lifetime/

#meetings #marketing #failure #events #eventprofs

The Audacious Meeting Industry Offer of a Lifetime: I Get to Pay for the Privilege of Sharing My Expertise! : Conferences That Work

The audacious meeting industry offer of a lifetime: I get to pay for the privilege of sharing my expertise!

Conferences That Work
Adrian SegarSep 29, 2023
ahimsaSep 28, 2023

I think this line bears repeating:

"There is no amount of me doing my individual best that can overcome a failure of community policy."

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/what-can-a-covid-outbreak-at-a-writing-conference-teach-us-about-community-care/

hat tip to @pixplz

#Education #HigherEd #Covid #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #LongCovid

What Can a COVID Outbreak at a Writing Conference Teach Us about Community Care? - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

More than 10 percent of the participants at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference this year contracted COVID, providing a stark lesson on what it means to be a community, who is cared for, and who is left out.

Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly