Facilitation for Productive Retreats, Meetings, & Discussions

Joan Newman provides professional facilitation services to law firms and corporate and government law departments. She facilitates strategic planning sessions; executive, law firm, and law department retreats; and practice group, client team, and department meetings. Joan ensures meetings are productive and focused, participants are engaged, and action plans are developed to achieve future goals. To accomplish this, she provides pre-planning and meeting design, in-meeting leadership, and post-meeting evaluations and follow-up. Joan is an organized, insightful, and charismatic facilitator who knows how to foster group participation, improve communication, build consensus, and drive decisions.