“I spend all day in boring meetings…it’s exhausting.”
Sound familiar? You aren’t alone.
Struggling with meetings is nothing new, but data-backed solutions haven’t been available…until now. Joe has built his career around the science of meetings — and now he is able to provide you with solutions based on science, not just anecdotal evidence.
Through my presentations, workshops, and consulting work, he shares productivity-increasing insights with employees, teams, and leadership groups.
“How can we cope with (virtual) meeting fatigue?”
“How can we keep meetings from becoming a waste of time?”
“How can we stop having so many meetings?”
LOW COST, SINGLE SESSION
Observation
Invite Joe to be a fly on the wall in your meeting!
He will observe how things operate. Using his science-based checklist, he will look for things before, during, and just after the meeting that are essential for successful meetings. Then, he will put together a short, one-page summary that identifies things for you to continue doing, stop doing, and start doing in your team meetings.
HIGHEST IMPACT
Consulting
Want faster results?
Joe is available to work with you, your team, or your entire organization.
Joe uses a process that works — these are real solutions based on scientific data that he has collected throughout his career.
LARGE GROUP TALKS
Speaking
Joe’s presentations and workshops are a great way to learn about meeting science and how it works.
Joe has given more than 100 talks at academic and non-academic settings in the U.S., France, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, and in more than 100 other countries via live-stream.
Joe’s Clients Include
“We worked closely with Dr. Allen to bring together a unique program with Logitech and Stanford Business School to reimagine meetings — the ‘Meeting Moonshot’ — bringing together professional sports leaders, ex-Special Operations leaders, creatives, surgeons, neuroscientists and academics.
He is the absolute leader in combining both big thinking and deep research to enable leaders and teams to ‘gather’ in more engaging, productive and creative ways. He is also a pleasure to work with in pulling together programs and facilitations.”
— Hoby Darling, Partner and Co-Founder Liminal Collective & Head of Logitech Sports and Human Performance Division
Joe takes a proven, customized approach to Consulting (and Speaking, in some cases) called the Adaptive Improvement Approach (AIA).
Consulting
The Gold Standard for Workplace Meetings
Every person, team, and organization is different. Everyone does some things well, and others poorly. Each team has norms about meetings that are effective AND ineffective. Each organization has a meeting culture that enables OR constrains meeting effectiveness.
And in 2020, ALL of them went online!
When working with clients, Joe will diagnose problems and inefficiencies, prescribe treatment, and make sure that you and your teams move forward healthier and happier.
Interventions may be on an individual basis, but are most effective when applied to teams or entire organizations; those with support and commitment from leadership are most successful.
Joe doesn’t just do traditional meetings; work with him to improve Community Engagement as well as Occupational Safety and Health
Joe provides customized solutions for organizations and corporations of all types, sizes and modalities.
Past examples include:
Helping a teachers union identify the source of their stress (emotional labor with parents, students, colleagues and administrators), and training them around coping to reduce it
Providing volunteer program assessment services for 400+ nonprofit organizations, where he used a standard survey to assess volunteer experiences and connect it to organizational effectiveness and ROI
Helping perform safety audits for several organizations, including Union Pacific’s track programs
Get in touch to discuss your particular needs, and Joe will design a program just for you.
The Process Joe Uses
Joe guides many of the employees, teams and leadership groups that he works with through a roughly 3-month process that he developed called the Adaptive Improvement Approach (AIA):
Observation
The process begins with observation; Joe will identify things that are working well, and things that should change in order to reach your goals.
Develop & Deploy Training
Once Joe knows what is and isn’t working for you, he will tailor training according to your needs and provide the necessary training.
Evaluation & Assessment
After changes are made, Joe will evaluate your progress and you’ll begin to see improvements.
Make Adjustments
Adjustments will be made as needed to achieve your goals.
