We involve and inspire all of your meeting and event participants, through our engaging, energetic and business-focused facilitators.
At Axiom, everything starts with the question why? To understand the purpose of the event, is to understand the desired outcome. Then we can plan the right route to help you achieve it.
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Our highly experienced professional facilitators get the most out of your team’s time together – whether at a large conference, a small meeting or anything in-between. By consistently driving valuable outputs, we help you maximise results and get the best possible return on your investment.
Through thorough preparation and a laser-like focus, we keep your meetings and conferences on track and ensure your goals are met. By seamlessly connecting participants with the content and speakers, they will come away engaged, informed and inspired.
Include your people in the conversation
At Axiom, we place huge emphasis on meaningful interactivity, harnessing everyone’s insights. An atmosphere of psychological safety encourages everyone to ‘speak up‘. By including your people in the conversation, they feel more invested in the outcome.
With years of experience we can easily pivot between virtual, face-to-face and hybrid meeting models, keeping everyone engaged.
What are the benefits of professional conference facilitation?
Our facilitators do more than guide discussions. They have a remarkable ability to ‘read the room’ and understand the behaviours and motivations of presenters, panellists and participants. They then skilfully navigate the twists and turns that can occur in any live event or meeting, so that you still reach the ideal outcome.
The Axiom team are highly successful at keeping the energy up – especially in an online environment. Using decades of experience in face-to-face settings, we use the latest collaborative technologies to deliver remarkable results that keep your audience fully engaged.
”The word ‘facilitate’ means to make easy, and that’s just what Axiom’s facilitators do. We make it easy for leaders to achieve their goals for a conference, ensure participants have their needs met and secure the actions that will make your event live long in the memory for all the right reasons.
Natasha Bye, Strategist and Communicator
Why leading organisations choose us
From an improvisation comedian who thrives on thinking on her feet, to a US Olympic team’s performance coach and an internal communications expert with three decades of professional facilitation experience, our team is the best in the business and adaptable to any situation.
Having worked with a plethora of multinational organisations, we’re adept at working with the subtleties and nuances of global teams. From cultural differences to time zones, we have you covered.
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”Axiom brought their experience, expertise and enthusiasm to help us rise to our employee engagement challenges – from strategic intent through to concrete actions in our betting shops. Their ‘can do’ attitude can be summed up by three words close to our hearts at Coral: Bring it On!
Richard Lang, Chief Operating Officer, Coral
Developing your in-house facilitation skills
Great facilitation is not only something we provide – it is something we can support you to grow within your organisation. Through a combination of theory and practice, our expert-delivered Facilitation Workshops give your teams the skills and confidence they need to lead in-person and online events. With this training, your meetings and conferences will always be productive, participatory, and high-impact.
So, whether you want to upskill your leaders to run better discussions or create a more interactive meeting culture, we can help. Our customised training also enables your teams to take ownership of their meetings. We turn facilitation into a powerful in-house capability.
How to effectively facilitate in-person events and meetings
This workshop helps you confidently lead live meetings and events, ensuring engagement and clear outcomes. Learn best practice facilitation, handle challenges, and run seamless Q&A sessions. Discover digital and traditional tools to enhance interactivity and create a lasting impact.
How to facilitate brilliantly online
This workshop equips you to run engaging, well-structured virtual meetings. Learn techniques to boost interactivity, manage time, and keep participants involved. Gain best practices for video use, speaker management, and interactive platforms to create standout online events.
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Discover practical facilitation tips, innovative strategies and techniques through our expert blogs.
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The impact a facilitator makes shouldn’t stop when the event is over! Guide your leaders and participants to reach new heights.
FAQs
What difference does a professional facilitator make?
Our professional, unbiased facilitators help you efficiently achieve your meeting goals, leaving your senior team free to focus on content, rather than delivery.
They handle logistics, rules of engagement, and housekeeping, enabling leaders to ‘stay strategic’ and not get mired in the admin details. After all, who goes to a conference to hear the VP of Sales tell you where to find the restrooms or when to check out of your hotel?
By creating a psychologically safe environment, we ensure every voice is heard. Harnessing diversity in all its guises helps to produce well-rounded recommendations and robust decisions.
You can trust us to keep your meeting on track and enhance the experience for both participants and speakers.
What skills make a great conference facilitator?
Our facilitators draw on decades of experience to overcome the challenges that always crop up in virtual, face-to-face or hybrid meetings.
They are also ideally placed to help shape your agenda, design interactive activities, and advise on the flow of the event.
They will connect participants with your content, get everyone involved, manage conflict or unhelpful diversions, and ensure everyone takes the appropriate actions once the meeting has finished.
Key skills include active listening, decision-making, guiding discussions, reading the room, adaptability, and time-management.
Why should I hire an external facilitator instead of using someone internal?
Your role is to focus on what you do best… lead. Our role is to do the rest.
We help everyone thrive in what can be a high-pressure, sleep-depriving, nerve-wracking environment, not just for speakers, but participants too.
As independent third parties, participants trust an external facilitator not to have an ‘axe to grind’, a personal agenda, or pre-determined outcomes in mind.
And there are not many things that faze an experienced external facilitator, after all that is what they do, day in and day out. An internal facilitator might face these challenges only once in a career – live in front of your audience at your incredibly important event.
What is different about facilitating a face-to-face conference compared with a virtual one?
Facilitating a virtual conference demands extra effort to help you achieve your goals. We have to overcome the many distractions of remote working, and we don’t have the benefit of ‘feeling’ the atmosphere in a physical room, nor the same level of body language signals to pick up on.
Shorter sessions, characterised by even higher levels of interactivity, are the key to combat the fatigue often associated with online working.
Hybrid events are even more challenging, as facilitators must create an equitable experience for both in-person and online audiences.
But overcoming these challenges, is nothing new to Axiom. We have been successfully facilitating virtual and hybrid events for decades.
Over the years we have developed some excellent techniques, often harnessing the very latest interactive meeting technology, before, during, and after the event, to differentiate your virtual meetings from the daily MS Teams meetings or Zoom calls that fill so many modern diaries.
Of course, there is definitely a place for virtual meetings in today’s business world. Savings can be made in venue costs, accommodation, food, and drinks. And the environmental benefits are clear too.
We are proud to support this sustainable way of connecting, confidently and creatively.
How do I choose the right facilitator for my event?
We recommend you think carefully about what you want your event to achieve and the culture you want to reinforce. We can then match your needs with a facilitator who has the style to help you drive the behaviours and outcomes you are keen to create.
Our team of skilled facilitators combines diverse expertise and proven track records to deliver success across every type of event.
How is a facilitator different from a Master of Ceremonies or Event Host?
The word facilitate means to make easy. And that is exactly what our facilitators do:
- Make it easy for you to achieve your meeting goals
- Make it easy for participants to contribute fully
- Make it easy to deliver the outcomes you want
Our facilitators effortlessly take everyone involved on your journey to success.
Facilitators also introduce speakers, manage flow, and keep your meeting on track. A more formal approach to these specific duties alone is often considered as being delivered by a ‘Master of Ceremonies’ or ‘MC’.
An Event Host adds to the MC’s role by also tackling the event flow and logistics.
Whether your event demands a professional facilitator, MC, or Host, we have the right people to partner with you, achieve your goals, and maximise your return on investment.
What are the benefits of professional facilitation for conferences, events, and meetings?
Professional facilitation provides expert guidance before, during, and after your event, ensuring clear outcomes that live long in the memory, after the event.
Effective facilitation makes life easier for organisers, technical partners, speakers and panellists, and most importantly, participants.
And that word, ‘participants’ matters. It helps differentiate great events from all the others that people have endured over the years. Surely you want participants at your all-important event, not merely ‘attendees’ or ‘delegates.’
Professional facilitators ensure every voice is heard, even the quieter members of your audience. They ‘read the room,’ manage group dynamics, improve problem-solving, and deliver clear, compelling results.
