Ep 42: Douglas Ferguson, the Human-Centered Technologist

An episode of the SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE with Vinay Kumar podcast, hosted by Vinay Kumar, titled "Ep 42: Douglas Ferguson, the Human-Centered Technologist" was published on April 8, 2021 and runs 49 minutes.

April 8, 2021 ·49m · SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE with Vinay Kumar

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Send us Fan Mail Motivated by a mission to rid the world of horrible meetings and offer meaningful meetings in their place, Douglas Ferguson is the founder and president of Voltage Control, an Austin-based facilitation agency that that specializes in helping teams work better together through participatory decision making and design inspired facilitation techniques. Douglas is an entrepreneur, a human-centered technologist, a thought leader, a Master Facilitator and the author of four b...

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Motivated by a mission to rid the world of horrible meetings and offer meaningful meetings in their place, Douglas Ferguson is the founder and president of Voltage Control, an Austin-based facilitation agency that that specializes in helping teams work better together through participatory decision making and design inspired facilitation techniques. Douglas is an entrepreneur, a human-centered technologist, a thought leader, a Master Facilitator and the author of four books. He has helped transform teams from U.S. SOCOM, the Air Force, Adobe, Dropbox, Fidelity, Vrbo, Liberty Mutual, Humana, and SAIC. Vinay delves deeper into the mind of the human-centered technologist.

[04:05s] Journey into facilitation

[8:35s] Genesis of Voltage Control

[13:22s] The good, the bad and the ugly of facilitating groups

[33:00s] Control the Room Summit 2021

[43:10s] Read Watch Listen RWL list: ‘Magical Meetings’ by Douglas Ferguson & John Fitch

Find out more about Douglas’ work at https://voltagecontrol.com/

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