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Adrian Segar

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I design & facilitate conferences that ➠ what folks want/need 🔸 Author of 3 meeting design books 🔸 ❤️ 2 🎤🕺🏻🧘‍♂️ 🔸 Recovering academic 🔸 @[email protected] 🔸 Marlboro, VT, USA; Work globally 🔸 Everything about me: conferencesthatwork.com

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Adrian Segar @segar.com · Dec 2

🔸 15 years of 850+ posts on #MeetingDesign #facilitation #consulting #LifeLessons #FacilitatingChange, being trapped in an elevator with a Nobel Prize winner & other #stories at conferencesthatwork.com
🔸 #Nonprofit board member junkie
🔸 Recovering #academic

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Welcome : Conferences That Work

Conferences That Work: providing design and facilitation of your in-person and online participant-driven, participation-rich meetings.

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Adrian Segar @segar.com · 31m

Does the world of events need more exposure to the new? Not necessarily!

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#meetings #EventDesign #reseeing #InvisibleTechnology #eventprofs

Does the world of events need more exposure to the new? A photograph of an old three-sided inn sign mounted on a wall with the words "OLD" and "NEW" on the left and right sides and a model of the inn on top. Photo attribution: Flickr user 64700647@N06

Adrian Segar @segar.com · 1h

My personal “Good” from IMEX America 2025—Part 1—reconnecting with old friends, deep conversations, and joyful moments that remind me why meetings matter.

#IMEX #IMEXAmerica #EventDesign #MeetingDesign #EventProfs #HumanConnection #newpost

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18h

ICE agents kidnapped a US citizen in Chicago because she didn’t “look” American to them. She even had her US passport on her. 🤬

ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name

She even had her U.S. passport on her.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12h

One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”

(Published August)

Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals

Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...

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Adrian Segar @segar.com · 3h

Two-thirds of meeting planners now rank flexible meeting space as a top priority when choosing a venue. Venues, are you ready?

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#MeetingDesign #VenueDesign #venues #FlexibleSpace #eventprofs

flexible meeting space: Image of Apple Campus II floor plan courtesy of Office Snapshots

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 15h

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record:

This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.

Reuters @reuters.com · 20h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17h

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 19h

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16h

This is unconstitutional and illegal. A memorandum doesn’t grant anyone the power to override the Constitution.

Trump has signed an order expanding his administration’s authority to redirect unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown,

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17h

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 17h

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Adrian Segar @segar.com · 15h

Being present is tough! Expanding our minds outside our brains enriches our lives. Negotiating the switch gives us the best of both worlds.

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#mindfulness #BeingPresent #MindOutsideBrain #connection

being present: An illustration in shades of blue of the silhouette of a person's head, with a melange of letters contained in a bubble behind them. Photo attribution: pixabay.com

Adrian Segar @segar.com · 17h

We need to re-envisage event technology to significantly improve our events

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#meetings #EventTech #improvement #technology #events #eventprofs

re-envisage event technology: photograph of a plastic sales blister-pack containing four AA batteries and a nail clipper. Photo attribution: Flickr user pierre-francois

Adrian Segar @segar.com · 18h

Knowledge … you've come a long way, baby! You've become networked and liberated, and you’ve lightened up!

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#knowledge #networked #liberated #LightenedUp #humor

A 1967 advertisement for Virginia Slims cigarettes, modified to say "Knowledge…you’ve come a long way baby"

Adrian Segar @segar.com · 20h

My personal “Good” from IMEX America 2025—Part 1—reconnecting with old friends, deep conversations, and joyful moments that remind me why meetings matter.

www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/me...

#newpost #IMEX #IMEXAmerica #EventDesign #MeetingDesign #EventProfs #HumanConnection

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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Adrian Segar @segar.com · 21h

I've struggled to meditate daily for decades. Until now. Here's the story of what changed and the effect it's had on my life.

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#meditation #meditating #daily #practice #struggle

meditate daily: A sepia photograph of a back of a person wearing a black shirt and sitting cross-legged in a field, surrounded by trees. Photo attribution: Flickr user wiertz

Adrian Segar @segar.com · 22h

Here's how to trust your gut, how trusting your gut can change your life, how to get better at doing it…and when you shouldn’t.

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#intuition #HowTo #TrustYourGut #trust #assnchat

Screenshot of my 21-minute presentation "How to trust your gut" recorded on Kiki L'Italien's Association Chat show

Adrian Segar @segar.com · 1d

While facilitating, I try to remember that we are all different. Though this is challenging work, it engenders rich rewards.

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#facilitation #meetings #events #differences #EventDesign #eventprofs

when facilitating try to remember we are all different: original photograph of a finger by Geoffrey Fairchild, under a CC BY 2.0 Deed license

Adrian Segar @segar.com · 1d

My meeting design ebooks are now available on VitalSource, the largest global supplier of digital course materials to higher education.

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#eventprofs #assnchat #MeetingDesign #education

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Adrian Segar @segar.com · 1d

Can conference organizers get evaluative feedback on the long-term outcomes of their events? Try The Reminder and find out!

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#meetings #EventDesign #evaluations #FacilitatingChange #TheReminder #eventprofs

the reminder: a black-and-white photograph of a man sitting on a bench and reading a letter

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 1d

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Adrian Segar @segar.com · 1d

Meetings in Day Million will be different from those today. Remember that when a meeting designer proposes something crazy. It may be the future's normal.

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#meetings #ScienceFiction #SciFi #EventDesign #future #eventprofs

Meetings in Day Million: An illustration of a recling woman from Frederik Pohl's short story "Day Million"