Gathering as a Leadership Skill
How leaders can use purpose, invitation, structure and host authority to create meetings and events that people understand, contribute to and remember.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Priya Parker
Conflict Facilitator | Strategic Advisor | Author of The Art of Gathering and The Art of Fighting
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WHY PRIYA
What Priya brings to the room.
Parker helps leaders design gatherings that create real participation, shared meaning and better conversations — from executive meetings and offsites to large events and communities.
KEYNOTE TOPICS
Ideas built for the stage.
Designing Events That Deserve the Room
A practical challenge to inherited event formats: begin with the actual need, then design the keynote, discussion and participation around what only this group can do together.
Conflict, Belonging and Healthy Groups
Why strong groups do not eliminate disagreement, and how leaders can create conditions in which tension becomes useful rather than corrosive.
Human Connection in Hybrid and Technology-Rich Work
How to decide when technology improves a gathering, when it weakens connection, and how leaders can create psychological togetherness across physical and virtual settings.
Priya Parker is a facilitator, strategic advisor and author whose work examines how groups gather, make meaning and navigate conflict. Trained in conflict resolution, she has spent two decades working with leaders, organisations and communities on consequential conversations, transitions and high-stakes gatherings. Her bestselling book The Art of Gathering reframed meetings and events around purpose rather than convention; in 2026 she followed it with The Art of Fighting, extending the work into conflict, belonging and the health of groups.\n\nParker works across speaking, facilitation and advisory formats, including leadership retreats, executive teams, Fortune 500 organisations, nonprofits and public institutions. Her work is especially relevant when an event needs more than inspiration: a clearer reason for gathering, stronger participation and practical ways to turn a room of people into a group capable of doing something together.
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