
What It Takes to Run a Great Virtual Meeting
Under the best of circumstances, virtual meetings tend to be less productive than in-person, or than they should be. Read our guidance for best practices to lead engaging and productive virtual meetings.
We are a highly specialized firm whose expertise lies at the intersection of strategy consulting, process and organizational design, and offsite facilitation.
At Strategic Offsites, Andrew has consulted across multiple industries in several continents. Sample industries include retail, financial services (including insurance, retail brokerage, clearing, credit cards, credit reporting), food and beverages (both retail and ingredient supply), upstream oil and gas, industrial products, and medical instruments. In addition multiple strategy development projects, Andrew has worked extensively on initiative prioritization and resource allocation issues helping connect the worlds of strategy and implementation.
Before joining Strategic Offsites in 2005, he spent nine years with Gemini Consulting (subsequently Cap Gemini Ernst & Young) in the Strategy practice. While at Gemini, Andrew leveraged his financial and strategy experience to develop Balanced Scorecards in a variety of industries, including consumer products, chemicals, and food ingredients. Other project work included a distribution strategy for a consumer lawn and garden chemical company and a debit card strategy for a major regional retail bank.
Prior to joining Gemini, Andrew worked as a credit analyst in the Specialized Finance arm of Dresdner Bank AG, London Branch. His responsibilities included analyzing new leveraged and project finance loans, as well as loans which had been reclassified into the specialized department.
Before Dresdner, Andrew was with Citicorp Investment Bank Limited, London. Andrew graduated from Duke University with an AB in Economics and History.
Under the best of circumstances, virtual meetings tend to be less productive than in-person, or than they should be. Read our guidance for best practices to lead engaging and productive virtual meetings.
Social distancing and travel restrictions have made it difficult, if not impossible, for organizations convene in person. Some controversial conversations need to be had now more than ever, so we need to learn how to do them virtually.
Doing business on Zoom, WebEx, Teams and the like presents many challenges, but what’s been overlooked is that these virtual platforms also give managers an extraordinary set of “superpowers”: the ability to do things in meetings that were either unthinkable or enormously challenging in the old days of conference tables and flip charts.