Exember
Designing and Facilitating Meetings for High-Stakes Change

The pandemic has shown that most tactically-focused business interaction can happen remotely. But the highest stakes conversations warrant greater investment to ensure success. Expert facilitation services ensure team meetings address the essential factors that leaders and their teams face – complex issues, difficult decisions, challenging teaming dynamics, cross-functional collaboration, and genuine team cohesion. This is precisely where Exember stands out.

“Behind transformative changes and true collaboration are candid conversations among team members. Our solutions help teams have genuine conclusive conversations that drive organizational growth and accelerate change,” says Daniel Levitt, CEO of Exember.

The business consulting and services company offers meeting facilitation services that equally cater to organizations’ strategic and team development needs.

The strategic aspect helps with making important decisions, addressing complex issues, and mobilizing changes of different kinds – a new strategy, culture change, efficiency initiative or reorganization. The team development aspect deepens familiarity and builds genuine bonds among team members, encouraging candid conversations. These are the foundation for cohesive teams that lead challenges change together. Strategy and development reinforce each other. Teaming conversations are not abstract but grounded in real business issues.

Strategy conversations get to the “real conversation,” and teams are equipped to take on these complex, mission-critical topics with powerful tools and the right mindsets.

The custom-designed, impactful meetings can be a series of workshops, or one longer in-person event based on client preference. Interviews identify timely, relevant topics. Discussions are aided by a tailored combination of tools and techniques including visioning, prioritization, decision-rights clarification, personality instruments, and trust-building.

Leadership teams emerge from Exember’s services ready to lead together – clear, aligned, and committed to a destination while operating as a cohesive team.

Exember has facilitated over 500 successful meetings for large and small groups. A recent success story centers on an executive team consisting of longtime and new members and a backlog of foundational issues to address as everyone focused on just getting things done. A lack of collaboration and low employee engagement scores added to the challenge. Exember’s meeting facilitation services helped the team at every step of their journey, creating a roadmap of improvement and the capability to lead.

In each interaction, the team made pivotal decisions, deepened connection between members, and progressed from unproductive storming to learning to effectively performing. Together, they refined their operating model, prioritized vital elements of change, and bridged relationships across functions.

Another example is a California-based technology firm that was stuck driving a complex cross-functional initiative among multiple teams. With competing incentives and no common leader to enforce alignment, progress was frozen. Exember’s facilitation elicited empathy for each team’s goals and frustrations, addressed sticking points, identified a shared mutually beneficial goal and defined structures for maintaining collaboration over time.

Exember was founded on classic consulting, supplemented by an innate understanding of team dynamics. The key is ensuring ownership and co-creation by client leaders who must drive change together. Leveraging expertise across a range of industries, functions, and leadership styles, the firm continues to make strides in the meeting facilitation space by helping companies achieve high stakes change.