Welcome to FacilitatorU, where we believe that honing your inner game or your ability to facilitate yourself allows you to leverage your personal presence as a catalyst for healthy group collaboration and innovation. In other words, how we “show up” and “facilitate ourselves” is just as important as what we “do” as group leaders. Many facilitation and leadership training programs overlook these important aspects of self-facilitation. Have a look at our Tools, Training and Resources for group leaders including the Master Facilitator Journal our free weekly ezine, and this blog as a place to dialogue around provocative questions in the field of self and group leadership and collaboration. Please browse and comment if you feel so moved to take the conversation further and deeper. If you are interested in inviting us for speaking engagements or a custom workshops, check out my expert profile.
Founder: Steven M. Davis, M.S., M.A. is a private consultant and co-founder of Living Giving Enterprises. Steve works with his clients to overcome their fear of presenting themselves, to resolve barriers to their creativity, to empower their under-performing teams, to enhance their facilitation skills, and to build their businesses online and offline. He also publishes a weekly ezine for facilitators, the Master Facilitator Journal, to over 5,000 readers in nearly 100 countries.
He offers a unique and diverse skill set encompassing management, business and life coaching, group facilitation, training design and delivery, e-commerce, marketing, writing, and engineering. With his technical background as a former engineer, coupled with his passion and experience in personal development and group leadership, he’s well equipped to help individuals and teams get pragmatic results. Recent work includes delivery of live and virtual seminars in facilitation, coaching, collaboration, sustainable leadership, communication, change, and life management skills
Steve also consulted with Justice & Sustainability Associates, a Washington, D. C. based firm providing civic engagement support for Madison Gas & Electric and the Milwaukee United project for the Greater Milwaukee Foundation .
Senior Partner. Darin J. Harris, M.P.A
is an organizational consultant and facilitator for local, state, federal, and international public sector, non-profit, and private, and for profit organizations. Darin leads people, programs, and projects to improved performance by applying a suite of professional skills, including group facilitation and problem solving, strategic planning, process improvement, project management, and policy analysis and evaluation.
In higher education, he has worked with dozens of academic departments and administrative units to achieve optimum results. His private consulting clients include:
Madison Metropolitan School District, Middleton-Cross Plains School District, Williamson Street Grocery Cooperative, American Players Theatre, City of Columbus, Middleton Chamber of Commerce, International Crane Foundation, WI- Department of Natural Resources, River Alliance, Wisconsin Environmental Initiative, American Transmission Company and the Environmental Council of States (ECOS).
In 2007, he teamed with FacilitatorU to create a comprehensive, week-long facilitative leadership program called Journey of Facilitation and Collaboration (JoFC) that has drawn over 500 participants from across the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia.
Darin is a speaker, author and instructor, with visiting status at Edgewood College in Madison, WI and Northland College in Ashland, WI. He is a board member of the Network for Change and Continuous Innovation (NCCI) and recently received a distinguished prefix title for his work at UW-Madison.