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Whether you're facilitating workshops, leading teams, or navigating complex decisions, here you'll find practical tools, frameworks, and lessons drawn from my real-world work with leadership teams and organizations.

I'm Jackie Colburn. Strategist, facilitator, human.
For nearly two decades, I've partnered with teams across industries to navigate complexity, unlock possibilities, and design a better way forward.

Horizons: My go-to method for wrapping up a session

You know that really long follow-up email that goes out after most meetings? This exercise aims to eliminate it by asking teams to align on what should happen next before they leave the room. Try my Time Horizons activity at the end of any strategic workshop, Design Sprint, or big meeting as a way to organize what will happen next, and who will be responsible for doing it by when.

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Two experts dish on how to win at workshops whether you’re remote, in person, or hybrid

Should we default to in-person meetings as pandemic restrictions ease, or should virtual meeting spaces remain as ubiquitous for their ability to increase collaboration and accessibility? To answer that question, let’s look at the pluses and minuses of remote, in-person and hybrid workshops, according to Steph Cruchon and me.

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