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Certified Meeting Design Mastery™

Become the Facilitator Every Room Needs and No One Can Replace

The Certified Meeting Designer™ is the only facilitation certification that combines battle-tested frameworks, real-time practice, and an AI-powered toolkit — so you leave Day 2 running meetings that actually work.

What You'll Learn:

📣 Stop wasting time in meetings that go nowhere.

📣 Design meetings that create decisions (not confusion)

📣 Ask questions that unlock clarity and accountability
📣 Give feedback that lands without defensiveness

📣 Navigate difficult conversations when stakes are high

📣 Lead through language (not authority)

📅 March 19-20 | 9 am-4 pm ET |

Earn your CMD credential and transform how work gets done.

The Problem

You Were Never Taught How to Run a Meeting.

Nobody was

CMD Is Built For You If...

✅ You run meetings but were never formally taught how to facilitate them

✅ You lead teams, projects, or clients and your effectiveness depends on what happens in rooms

✅ You have the responsibility to get groups to decisions but not always the authority to demand it

✅ You've sat through enough bad meetings to know exactly what not to do — but you want the framework for what to do

✅ You're ready to stop hoping meetings go well and start designing them to

✅ You want to be the person in your organization who other people trust to run the most important conversations

Why this workshop?

You stepped into a role where you "run" the meetings. You got added to calendars. You got handed a conference room and an expectation — and somehow you were supposed to just know how to lead a room full of people toward a decision.

So you did what everyone does.

You winged it.

You sent an agenda that was really just a list of topics. You opened with "let's go around the room." You let the loudest person set the direction. You ended with "I'll send a follow-up" — and then sent an email nobody read.

And afterward, quietly, you wondered if you were the problem.

You are not the problem. You were never given the tools.

That's exactly what CMD fixes. In two days.

Here's What Changes After CMD.

🔬 You'll diagnose any bad meeting in under 60 seconds.

Using The Meeting Autopsy Kit™, you'll identify exactly which of the 7 failure modes derailed any meeting — yours or anyone else's. No more vague frustration. No more "that meeting could have been an email." You'll know why it failed and precisely what to do differently.


👨‍🍳 You'll design meetings that work before they start.

The Meeting Recipe™ gives you a 5-part blueprint that turns any meeting from a hope into a plan. Purpose. People. Process. Energy. Close. You'll design meetings that get to decisions faster, keep everyone engaged, and end on time — every time.


🃏 You'll have the right question for every moment.

Silence in the room? Someone dominating the conversation? Group stuck on the same point for 20 minutes? The Question Arsenal™ gives you 12 specific question types — and you'll know exactly which one to deploy in any situation. Great facilitators don't have better answers. They have better questions.


🎯 You'll give feedback that actually lands.

The SBI Feedback Formula™ — Situation, Behavior, Impact — gives you a three-sentence structure that delivers honest, specific feedback without triggering defensiveness or damaging relationships. You'll leave with language you can use the next time someone derails your meeting, dismisses a colleague, or needs a course correction.


🧭 You'll navigate difficult conversations without losing the room.

The Conversation Compass™ maps every difficult conversation across 5 clear points — so you always know where you are, where you're going, and how to recalibrate when things get uncomfortable. The conversations you've been avoiding? You'll have a plan for every single one of them.


🎸 You'll lead rooms you don't officially control.

The Influence Without Authority Playbook™ gives you 6 tactical moves for the most common facilitation challenge: being responsible for outcomes in a room where you have no formal power. You'll know how to align skeptics before the meeting starts, redirect resistance without creating enemies, and move any group toward a decision — even when you're not the boss.


🤖 You'll have an AI co-pilot for every meeting you run.

CMD graduates receive exclusive access to the CMD Facilitator GPT — a custom AI assistant trained on all 6 frameworks. It generates your meeting agenda, builds your Question Arsenal, drafts your pre-alignment messages, analyzes your conversations, and coaches your facilitation — in 90 seconds, at 11pm, the night before your most important meeting of the year.

No other facilitation program on the planet offers this.

Tangible Items You'll Have

What You’ll Walk Away With

The CMD Certification

A performance-based credential that means something — because not everyone passes. Your CMD badge represents demonstrated competency across 6 frameworks, a completed capstone scenario, peer-evaluated practice, and a personal reflection assessment reviewed by Kim Brainard herself. Add it to your LinkedIn profile the day you graduate.

The CMD AI Facilitator Toolkit

A curated guide to the best AI tools for facilitators — free and paid — with specific use cases, copy-paste prompts for each of the 6 frameworks, and a workflow for integrating AI into your meeting prep, execution, and follow-through. Immediately usable. Regularly updated for CMD graduates.

Access to the CMD Facilitator GPT

Your personal AI assistant, trained on the CMD frameworks. Available 24/7. Knows your language. Generates meeting designs, question arsenals, influence strategies, and feedback scripts in seconds. Exclusive to CMD graduates — not available anywhere else.

The CMD AI Facilitator Toolkit

A curated guide to the best AI tools for facilitators — free and paid — with specific use cases, copy-paste prompts for each of the 6 frameworks, and a workflow for integrating AI into your meeting prep, execution, and follow-through. Immediately usable. Regularly updated for CMD graduates.