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Leadership Strategies webinars

Expert-led webinars on facilitation, strategy, and meetings that actually work

Join live, practical sessions that help you run better meetings, improve alignment, and avoid common strategy and project pitfalls. These webinars give buyers and practitioners a fast way to evaluate Leadership Strategies methods before choosing deeper training or facilitation support.

  • Learn frameworks you can use in your next meeting or planning session.
  • See how facilitation improves engagement, buy-in, and decisions.
  • Choose sessions that match leadership, facilitation, or project challenges.
  • Live Q&A
  • Complimentary to attend
  • Hosted on Contrast
  • Replay access available

Why teams trust Leadership Strategies

IAF + INIFAC

Dual endorsement

35,000+

Facilitators trained since 1993

95%

Rate us best or one of the best

11 of 56

Certified Master Facilitators worldwide

Drivers Model

A practical methodology used across facilitation, strategy, and training engagements

Who these are for

Free Webinars for Leaders, Facilitators, and Project Teams

Our facilitation webinars are designed for professionals who run meetings, lead teams, or drive organizational change. Each session delivers practical, immediately applicable skills.

Leaders & decision makers

Executives, managers, and team leads who need better strategic discussions, clearer decisions, and less wasted meeting time.

Facilitators & trainers

Internal facilitators, consultants, agile coaches, and L&D professionals who lead high-stakes sessions and need stronger group process tools.

Project & program leaders

Project managers, program managers, and PMO leaders who must align stakeholders, manage conflict, and keep work moving.

● Facilitation Capability

Up next — Thursday, Sep 3 — Register now

Building a Facilitation Capability Inside Your Organization


Most leadership development programs invest in communication, coaching, and feedback — and skip one of the most frequently used leadership skills entirely: facilitation. Join Dave Adelman, Core Team Facilitator at Leadership Strategies, for a practical look at how organizations identify internal facilitators, build a scalable train-the-trainer model, and measure the business impact of facilitation training, with live Q&A.

  • Thursday, September 3, 2026
  • 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET
  • Live online
  • Free
Free webinar HR, L&D & Org Leaders Internal Facilitation Capability
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Upcoming webinars

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September 2026

Free webinar HR, L&D & Org Leaders

Building a Facilitation Capability Inside Your Organization

  • September 3, 2026
  • 1:00 PM ET
  • Live online

For HR, L&D, and organizational development leaders responsible for building internal facilitation skills at scale.

What to expect

  • Understand what it takes to build a durable internal facilitation capability.
  • Learn how to select, develop, and support facilitators inside your organization.
  • Get a framework for measuring the impact of facilitation on meetings and decisions.
Free webinar Executives & Leadership Teams

Mastering Strategic Planning: From Mission to Implementation

  • September 10, 2026
  • 1:00 PM ET
  • Live online

For executive directors, board chairs, and senior leadership teams building a strategic plan that survives contact with implementation — not just a retreat.

What to expect

  • Build mission and vision statements that create real organizational alignment.
  • Set KPIs and success measures your leadership team will actually use.
  • Spot the planning gaps most likely to stall implementation, before they do.
Free webinar Facilitators & Consultants

Introduction to the Certified AI-Enabled Facilitator™: Using AI Across Every Stage of the Facilitation Lifecycle

  • September 17, 2026
  • 1:00 PM ET
  • Live online

For facilitators and leaders who’ve moved past one-off AI prompts and want a systematic way to use AI across the entire facilitation lifecycle.

What to expect

  • See the difference between using AI casually and facilitating with it systematically.
  • Walk through the Facilitator’s PowerPrompt™ for stronger, context-aware AI support.
  • Get a free copy of the 2026 State of AI in Facilitation Report.
Free webinar Executives & Leadership Teams

The Executive Offsite Blueprint: Turning a Retreat Into Results

  • September 24, 2026
  • 1:00 PM ET
  • Live online

For CEOs, Chiefs of Staff, and anyone planning a leadership offsite who wants decisions and ownership — not just a good conversation.

What to expect

  • Define what your leadership team should walk away with before the retreat starts.
  • Use the 6 Ps of Preparation to catch gaps before they surface in the room.
  • Design for what happens after the offsite, so decisions don’t disappear.

October 2026

Free webinar Leaders, PMs & Facilitators

Silent Killer: How Meetings Are Sucking the Life Out of Your Organization

  • October 6, 2026
  • 1:00 PM ET
  • Live online

For senior leaders and meeting owners ready to stop asking “what did we actually accomplish?” after every meeting.

What to expect

  • See the hidden costs of ineffective meetings, from lost productivity to disengagement.
  • Learn the real difference between running a meeting and facilitating one.
  • Get a framework organizations have used to cut meeting time by 45%.
Free webinar Leaders, PMs & Facilitators

Intro to Facilitating Groups: Building Consensus

  • October 15, 2026
  • 1:00 PM ET
  • Live online

For leaders and facilitators who need a group to reach a real decision — not just agree to disagree.

What to expect

  • Identify the real reason a group is stuck, not just the surface disagreement.
  • Apply five proven techniques for moving from disagreement to consensus.
  • Leave with a decision-making process you can use in your very next meeting.
Free webinar Executives & Leadership Teams

Why Strategic Plans Fail: 10 Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

  • October 27, 2026
  • 1:00 PM ET
  • Live online

For executives and strategy leaders who want to know why plans stall before they write another one that might.

What to expect

  • Walk through the 10 most common pitfalls that stall strategic plans.
  • See how the Drivers Model creates a disciplined path from today to tomorrow’s vision.
  • Learn how to translate strategy into owned, accountable action — not a shelf document.

November 2026

Free webinar Leaders, PMs & Facilitators

Intro to Facilitating Groups: Managing Dysfunction

  • November 3, 2026
  • 1:00 PM ET
  • Live online

For anyone who has watched a meeting go sideways and wanted a better option than hoping it fixes itself.

What to expect

  • Use a three-part approach to prevent, detect, and resolve group dysfunction.
  • Recognize dominators, skeptics, and silent participants — and what actually works on each.
  • Get techniques that hold up in person, virtual, and hybrid sessions.
Free webinar Executives & Leadership Teams

The Meeting Trap: Reclaiming Your Organization’s Time and Energy

  • November 5, 2026
  • 1:00 PM ET
  • Live online

For leaders who suspect their organization doesn’t have a meeting problem — it has a meeting culture problem.

What to expect

  • See the hidden organizational costs behind chronically ineffective meetings.
  • Learn the 10 Meeting Rights that raise the standard for every session.
  • Get a roadmap for building facilitation capability across a team or department.
Free webinar Leaders, PMs & Facilitators

Facilitating Hybrid Meetings

  • November 17, 2026
  • 1:00 PM ET
  • Live online

For anyone who has watched remote participants quietly disappear from a hybrid meeting.

What to expect

  • Avoid the five most common pitfalls that break hybrid meetings.
  • Apply the 6 Ps of Preparation to hybrid-specific challenges.
  • Use ground rules like “remotes go first” to balance participation.

December 2026

Free webinar Executives & Leadership Teams

2027 Planning Sprint

  • December 1, 2026
  • 1:00 PM ET
  • Live online

For leadership teams who don’t want to enter 2027 with yesterday’s priorities.

What to expect

  • Answer the critical questions your leadership team needs before the new year.
  • Separate real strategic priorities from a collection of projects and goals.
  • Use the Drivers Model to move from strategic thinking to implementation.
Free webinar Leaders, PMs & Facilitators

Intro to Facilitating Groups: The Basics

  • December 10, 2026
  • 1:00 PM ET
  • Live online

For anyone who leads meetings, workshops, or discussions and wants the fundamentals that make groups actually move.

What to expect

  • Use the 6 Ps of Preparation to design meetings with a clear purpose and outcome.
  • Apply the IEEI Model to engage participants from the first minute.
  • Learn the real difference between leading a meeting and facilitating one.
Free webinar Executives & Leadership Teams

The Strategic Planning Blueprint: Limiting the Risks

  • December 17, 2026
  • 1:00 PM ET
  • Live online

For leadership teams who know their strategic plan is too important to leave the process to chance.

What to expect

  • See where strategic planning most often breaks down — before it happens to you.
  • Learn which stakeholders to involve, and when, to build real commitment.
  • Know when internal planning is enough, and when a neutral facilitator changes the outcome.

Webinar dates and times are subject to change. Most sessions are hosted on Contrast.

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Your hosts

Meet the Facilitation Experts Leading These Webinars

Every webinar is led by a practitioner — not a sales rep.

Michael Wilkinson CMF

Michael Wilkinson, CMF™

Founder, Leadership Strategies

Founder of Leadership Strategies and creator of the Drivers Model. One of the most recognized names in facilitation.

  • Certified Master Facilitator™ and keynote speaker
  • Author of The Secrets of Facilitation and six other books
  • Board Member, International Institute for Facilitation
  • Member, International Facilitation Hall of Fame
David Stargel President CEO

David Stargel

President & CEO, Leadership Strategies

President & CEO with 30+ years in facilitation, leadership training, and consulting.

  • Over 30 years in facilitation, leadership training, and consulting
  • Former President and COO of Atlanta-based Sales Training company
  • Facilitation and training for Deloitte, SAP, Apple, and Gulfstream
Dave Adelman Core Team Facilitator

Dave Adelman

Core Team Facilitator

Veteran facilitator and training leader. Delivers high-impact sessions for world-class organizations.

  • President, Adelman Solutions Group
  • Past President & Senior Advisor, Greater Atlanta ATD Chapter
  • Training leader for Disney, Merck, Assurant, and AmerisourceBergen
Diana Gurwicz Certified Master Facilitator

Diana Gurwicz, CMF™

Certified Master Facilitator, Leadership Strategies

25+ years helping global clients improve performance through facilitation. Core team member with Leadership Strategies since 2009.

  • Certified Master Facilitator™
  • Management consultant background, McKinsey
  • Wharton MBA
  • Clients include Pfizer, Levi Strauss, IEEE, and State Bar of Georgia

Example webinar topics

What Our Facilitation Webinars Cover

Meetings

Fixing meeting culture

Sessions on wasted meeting time, stronger discussion design, and practical tools leaders can apply right away.

Facilitation

Managing group dysfunction

Sessions for facilitators, managers, and coaches who need techniques for difficult participants and better group outcomes.

Strategy

Strategic planning that leads to action

Executive-facing sessions on alignment, planning pitfalls, and making implementation more practical.

Projects

Conflict and consensus in project work

Sessions that help project leaders diagnose friction, guide discussion, and keep stakeholders moving together.

Project management

Facilitation skills for PMs

Content showing project managers how facilitation improves scope conversations, stakeholder alignment, and execution.

Training preview

A low-risk way to evaluate deeper programs

Webinars act as an easy preview of broader training and facilitation engagements before a buyer commits.

What people say

Why Leaders Trust Leadership Strategies Webinars

The skills I learned in Leadership Strategies’ facilitation courses helped me guide an 11-person political coalition to reach consensus on a national agenda for change.
Pilar B. — Founder, AtWater Consulting
What I gained from The Effective Facilitator isn’t just new knowledge, it’s genuine competence and confidence.
Manal S. — Consultant, Facilitator, Trainer
I’m ending meetings with 10 minutes to spare and ensuring clear accountability. This has already delivered significant value.
Leadership Strategies alum

Common questions

Webinar FAQ

Common questions about our free facilitation webinars. Can’t find what you need? Contact us.

Who should attend these webinars?

These sessions are designed for leaders, managers, facilitators, trainers, project managers, and program owners who need stronger meetings, better alignment, and more productive group decisions.

Are the webinars live or recorded?

Most webinars are live, and registrants who cannot attend live typically receive replay access for a limited period after the session.

Are they free?

Most webinars are free unless a session is clearly labeled as a paid workshop.

What platform do you use?

Most webinars are hosted on Contrast, with some registrations handled through the Leadership Strategies training site depending on the session.

Can my organization request a private session?

Yes. Use the form below to connect with us about a private webinar, in-house training, or facilitation engagement.

For team and enterprise buyers

Bring Facilitation Training to Your Whole Team

If you are evaluating a webinar topic for a department, leadership team, or project group, connect with us directly. We can design a private session, a facilitated workshop, or a training program tailored to your goals.

  • Request a private session for your team or department.
  • Ask about workshop or training options for 10+ people.
  • Get guidance on whether facilitation, training, or a webinar series is the right next step.
  • Explore on-site and virtual delivery options.

Bring this in-house

Tell us about your team and we’ll follow up within one business day.