September Cohort  ·  Sept 2026  ·  Opens Soon
What Is

Lead the Room?

If you lead meetings, off-sites, townhalls, workshops, or strategy sessions - you're already facilitating. The question is how well.

Lead the Room is the system leaders use to own any room — from high-stakes board meetings to town halls, off-sites, and workshops.

Four live sessions. A proven method. A handy field guide shipped to your door.

Your human skills are your competitive advantage. Lead the Room gives it a structure.

Lead the Room — Facilitation Edge

It's NOT just for professional facilitators — if you lead people, run meetings, or need to move a room, this is for you.

 IT'S NOT A HOW TO FACILITATE COURSE

IT'S A SYSTEM TO LEAD ANY ROOM BETTER.

Join the Waitlist →

4 Live Labs (90 mins each)  ·  £250 Per Person  ·  Next Cohort: September 2026

Here's What Lead the Room Is NOT:

  • It's NOT a generic facilitation course full of tips and techniques you've already heard a hundred times before.
  • It's NOT a self-paced video library where you watch alone, hope something sticks, and never actually practise in a real room.
  • It's NOT built for experienced facilitators or leaders with positional authority.
30+ Years in the room
500k+ People reached
50+ Countries
100+ Organisations worked with

How does the Lead the Room program work?

After more than 30 years facilitating, we found four things that make a truly great facilitator. First, you build your CONFIDENCE — so you can own the room. Then, you become more intentional with your ENERGY — so you can read and move the room. Next you sharpen your SKILLS — so you can influence the room. And finally, you master DESIGN — so you can shape the room.

The Lead the Room Method
Confidence Lab
How to Own the Room

Even experienced facilitators feel the ground shift when the stakes rise. The Four P's of Confidence Framework gives you a proven, repeatable way to show up with presence — regardless of the room, the audience, or the pressure. Not performance confidence. The real thing.

  • The Permission Principle
  • The Practice Loop
  • Six Presence Levers
  • The Positive Expectancy Habit
Skills Lab
How to Influence the Room

 This session maps the Four Disciplines of a Skilful Facilitator, gives you a system to elevate each one, then goes deep on the hardest to get right — using the Core Message Method and a practical storytelling structure to shape decisions, even in rooms full of competing agendas.

  • 4 Disciplines of Facilitation
  • The Simple  Story Structure
  • The Three Pillars Rule
  • The Core Message Method
Energy Lab
How to Read the Room

The Group Leadership Energy Map™ gives you a simple, reliable way to read the energy of any group. You'll also learn how to widen your own energy range so you can match, mirror, and move any group — not just observe it.

  • A language to help you instantly read a room
  • Learn how and when to match or mirror energy   
  • A framework for moving any room's energy 
  • The 4 Energy Shifting Tactics
Design Lab
How to Shape the Room

The See → Be → Do Model gives you a principled approach to session design — one that shapes sessions that don't just inform, but transform. You'll leave this lab able to design any conversation so that real change happens in the room, not after it.

  • See → Be → Do Model
  • Session design templates
  • A complete system for design    
Who's teaching this

Meet the Mentors.

Two practitioners who've spent decades in the room — not writing about facilitation, but doing it. The Lead the Room Method is built from that experience.

Michele Skogerboe
Michele Skogerboe
Lead the Room Mentor

Michele designs and delivers experiences that challenge how leaders think, behave, and show up. She doesn't lecture from the front of the room — she creates immersive programmes that surface hard truths and help leaders practise courage, curiosity, and care. Her work draws from psychology, systems thinking, and human-centred design, always grounded in evidence and translated for real rooms.

Jason Moore
Jason Moore
Lead the Room Mentor

Jason has spent more than two decades facilitating leadership experiences for organisations including Microsoft, HSBC, Netflix, Equinix, and Goldman Sachs — reaching more than 500,000 people across 50+ countries. His style is energising, rigorous, and deeply human. He brings as much care to what shifts in people as to what gets decided.

The Lead The Room Field Guide

The Lead The Room Field Guide

A professionally designed workbook shipped directly to your door. Not a PDF. Not a slide deck. A physical guide you can return to between sessions, annotate in the room, and keep on your shelf.

It contains the complete method, all exercises, session design templates, and the full AI prompt library — everything you need to put the method into practice the moment the programme ends.

Included with every Launch Cohort place  ·  Shipped to you
Here's what you get when you join

THE LEAD THE ROOM PROGRAM

Facilitation Labs
4 Live Sessions

Four 90-minute live sessions via Zoom — Confidence, Energy, Skills, and Design. Small cohort by design, so you learn in real time with peers who take this craft as seriously as you do.

Video Library
Lead the Room Method

On-demand video sessions covering confidence patterns, advanced facilitation tactics, the Four Disciplines of a Skilful Facilitator, preparation systems, and using AI as a facilitation partner. Yours to keep and revisit after the programme ends.

Physical Workbook
The Field Guide

A professionally designed workbook shipped to your door. Contains the complete method, exercises, session design templates, and the full AI prompt library.

What participants said.

Testimonial
Testimonial

Built for Leaders

This programme is designed for Leaders, including:

  • Leaders who run high-stakes meetings, town halls, and off-sites and need to get results
  • Leaders who need to influence and align without positional authority
  • Managers and executives who are technically skilled but want to lead rooms with more confidence and precision
  • Learning professionals who design and deliver group learning experiences
  • Consultants who lead strategy sessions and want to elevate their impact

A leadership cohort — by design.

Join the Waitlst and you only pay £250 per person for the complete programme.

Here's exactly what that gets you:

  • 4 x live 90-minute Zoom sessions (Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 5:30–7:00pm UK)
  • On-demand video lessons that are yours to keep
  • A physical Field Guide shipped to your door

Each cohort is intentionally limited so every participant gets to participate in real conversation with peers who understand the work.

The programme runs across two weeks in September

Your instincts got you here.
A SYSTEM takes you further.

£250
Join the Waitlist to lock in this price. Everything included.

Join the Waitlist →