Do you lead teams, community groups, or initiatives?


Are you a network coordinator, nonprofit or foundation leader?


Then this training is for you!


Meetings can be Better.


At Third Space Studio, we believe meetings are critical tools for organizations to learn, grow, and make collective decisions. But bad meetings are the exact opposite, causing confusion, frustration, and loss of morale.

We've created this training to help you design and facilitate better meetings.

Along with a concise and self-paced course, you'll receive our Better Meetings Toolkit (the e-book version) - full of tips, tricks, and insights we’ve gained over our combined 40+ years leading and designing better meetings. 

Course Curriculum

  Introductions & Openings
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  The Facilitator Role
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  Our Secret Sauce
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  The Process of Meeting Facilitation
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  Facilitation Tactics
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  The Meeting Design
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  Closings
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What Our Clients Say


"Heather and Meredith (Third Space Studio) created the best and most thoughtful training on how to run excellent meetings and pieces of training, especially online. It’s loaded with concrete tips, tactics, and tools. I’ll be immediately implementing some of these suggestions. They even model the tactics they teach in the training they delivered. Superb Job."


-Sean Kosofsky, Executive Director, Climate Advocacy Lab

Meredith Emmett

As the founder of Third Space Studio, Meredith uses her thirty-plus years of experience as a nonprofit leader to help our clients grapple with challenges and amplify successes.


Prior to founding Third Space Studio in 2001, Meredith served as executive director of three North Carolina-based nonprofits: the Institute for Southern Studies, NC Community Shares, and Public Allies of NC. Meredith has served on numerous local, state, and national nonprofit boards.

Third Space Studio

Third Space Studio’s lead consultants, Meredith Emmett and Heather Yandow, are an inter-generational team with more than 45 years of combined experience as nonprofit capacity builders, facilitators, trainers, and coaches. 

Heather Yandow

Inspired by issues that touch her heart and organizations invested in relationships, Heather gets joy out of helping groups move forward from chaos to clarity. Phrases like “adaptive leadership” and “change management” are sure to get her mind churning.


Before Heather joined Third Space in 2010, she was the Director of Development and Communications with the NC Conservation Network, a statewide network of over 100 organizations focused on protecting North Carolina's environment and public health.