Michael Goldman

Current

• Meeting Facilitator at Facilitation First
• Trainer at Facilitation First Inc.
• President at Facilitation First Inc. (Sole Proprietorship)

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Education

• University of Toronto - University College

Recommended

15 people have recommended Michael

Connections

139 connections

Industry

Professional Training & Coaching

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog

Michael Goldman’s Summary

• Owned and operated Facilitation First for 17 years
• Certified Facilitator through the International Association of
Facilitators (IAF)
• Have certification in Adult Education, Mediation (U of T)
• Run www.facilitationfirst.com and the newsletter The
Facilitator's Flipchart - subscription base 3,000+ worldwide
• Have edited 5 books on facilitating difficult meetings and
teams
For the past 17 years I have:
• Trained fundamental to advanced meeting facilitation skills to
over 5,000 people across North America and ALL sectors
• Professionally designed and facilitated an average of 30
meetings per year ranging from small strategic planning
sessions to large group team alignment retreats
• Conducted at least 10 keynotes on facilitation per year
• Clients are mostly private sector, corporate, mfg or service
related who want to build collaborative meeting with expert
results!
• Public sector clients include First Nations, municipalities,
utilities, education, health and safety, public health
• Have certified many in-house and external trainers in the art
of training facilitation

Michael Goldman’s Specialties:

• Provide basic to advanced training on how to build and lead
collaborative meetings
• Conduct telecoaching and teleconference classes to assist
in-house facilitators with meeting design, techniques for dealing with difficult people
• Work with all industries to develop and facilitate meeting
retreats, interactive conference sessions, strategic planning
sessions, divisional merging, new and existing team
kick-offs, new leader integration, team remediation, etc.

Michael Goldman’s Experience

• Meeting Facilitator

  Facilitation First

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  February 1991 — Present (18 years 11 months)

  Training and provision of professional facilitation services to help individuals engage in small to large group complex, collaborative discussions,

• Trainer

  Facilitation First Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  January 1991 — Present (19 years )

• President

  Facilitation First Inc. (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  September 1990 — Present (19 years 4 months)

  Meeting design and facilitation experts.
  Train foundation to expert level facilitation skills.
  Provide licensing out of our world-class programs based on best-selling author Ingrid Bens
  Facilitate small to large group retreats for strategic planning, team alignment, critical project management meetings (i.e. start-up, stakeholder analysis, steering committee, post-implementation reviews)

Michael Goldman’s Education

• University of Toronto - University College

  1984 — 1986

Additional Information

Michael Goldman’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog

Michael Goldman’s Interests:

Process facilitation, meeting management, facilitation training, team development, team leadership development, dealing with difficult people, conflict management, Teleconferencing, Telecoaching, videoconferencing, PDU provider, facilitation resources, facilitator resources

Michael Goldman’s Groups:

International Association of Facilitators, CCCE, PMI

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Michael Goldman’s Contact Settings

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