The Method
Five steps. One clear outcome.
Every engagement follows the same five steps — a disciplined process refined over 30 years of practice. The quality of the outcome depends entirely on the quality of the process that got you there.
The Convergence Method
01
Understand.
Before we design anything, we ask the hard questions. What decision has to come out of this meeting? What does each stakeholder actually want — versus what they'll say publicly? What's been tried before and why did it fall short? This diagnostic shapes everything that follows. Skip it and you're designing in the dark.
02
Map.
Every group has invisible dynamics — who dominates, whose voice gets crowded out, where the real tensions lie, what won't be said openly. We map this before anyone enters the room and design the process around it. This is what separates a meeting that works from one that just happens.
03
Design.
Most agendas are a list of presentations followed by Q&A. Ours aren't. We design each session to build on the last — using formats that draw out quieter voices, surface real disagreement safely, and move the group progressively toward a decision. Nothing is improvised. Everything has a purpose.
04
Energize.
A meeting that loses the room at 2pm on Day 2 is a meeting that fails. We design for sustained engagement across languages, cultures, and contexts — because when people feel genuinely included rather than just present, they contribute more honestly. That's where the real insight comes from.
05
Synthesize.
A well-run process produces clear outputs naturally. We pull together everything heard across all sessions — where there was agreement, where there was tension, whose voice deserves more weight — and put it in writing. What was decided. Who owns what. What happens next. Not a summary. A mandate.