You don't want a meeting. You want an outcome. We design and facilitate the sessions where leadership teams decide, plan and commit, in the room or online.
The evidence
Trusted by leadership teams, boards and associations in more than 20 countries
The ProMeet method
The tools look simple. They focus everyone on the same thing at the same time, gather every view succinctly, and leave a record of ideas, decisions, actions and learning.
We turn agenda items into objectives that start with an active verb: create, plan, agree, decide.
We plan a sequence of discussions, tasks and activities that meets each objective in a lively, engaging way.
Every meeting ends with clear, captured actions, so people can act and progress shared goals.
A few minutes learning about working together builds trust, respect and better meetings next time.
The four phases, five principles and the tools behind them →
Recent work
Recent assignments led by Sean in Asia and Liam in the UK and Europe.
A Tokyo-based travel companyLSP
Led by Sean Blair
A full-day LEGO® Serious Play® workshop for around 240 staff across every department, designed to help the company see itself as one system and choose the behaviours and ways of working that would make collaboration easier.
Read the full story →English Schools Foundation, Hong KongLSP
Led by Liam Isaac
Liam designed and facilitated a senior management awayday, an executive team meeting and a workshop for vice principals from across ESF's schools, using LEGO® Serious Play® to build a shared vision of cross-campus collaboration.
Read the case study →Forest Governance, Markets and Climate programme
Led by Liam Isaac
For a UK-government-funded programme on forest governance, a staged process defined the strategic objectives and framework of a knowledge management system, ending in a two-day co-design workshop. Paper frameworks, storytelling and 3D-printed counters replaced LEGO bricks, to suit the client.
Read the case study →Teach First
Led by Liam Isaac
Liam has run workshops for Teach First's Headship Next programme, imagining the future of participants' schools and the interventions that tip culture in the right direction, and works with its Innovation Network of emerging social entrepreneurs, using systems thinking to map the problems they want to solve.
Read the case study →Client stories
Three of the assignments that built ProMeet. Each began with a clear outcome, not an agenda.
National Infrastructure Commission
Led by Sean Blair
Eight one-day evidence-gathering workshops for the UK's first National Infrastructure Assessment, each on a different theme: transport, digital, energy, water, flood risk and waste.
Read the full story →
University of the Arts London
Led by Sean Blair
Library and Learning Resources built its vision and three-year strategy with its leadership team, then involved all 120 staff in planning how to deliver it.
Read the full story →
BHASVIC
Led by Sean Blair
The senior management team of one of England's top sixth form colleges learned to use ProMeet tools and dialogue to build trust, respect and support in their everyday meetings.
Read the full story →Facilitation is one of those activities that too many people think they can do well. Some of those people should watch you at work: professional, firm, authoritative, gracious and focused on the outcome we wanted.Jonathan Drori CBE, Chairman, Ravensbourne Board of Governors
Where we work
We have facilitated multinational, multilingual groups for years, including European and Japanese leaders in the same room. We speak slowly, design for mixed language levels, and make thinking visible so nobody depends on fluency alone.
Asia
Serious Outcomes Asia is based in Singapore. Recent work includes a 240-person workshop in Tokyo and a programme for 400 staff across Singapore, Europe and the USA.
Facilitation in Singapore and Asia →
UK and Europe
Assignments across the UK and Europe since 2000, for boards, governments, universities, associations and global brands.
Facilitation in the UK and Europe →
Online and hybrid
Since 2020 we have designed online sessions with Zoom, Mural and Slido, including LEGO® Serious Play® online. Sean wrote the book on how to do it well.
In our clients' words
The European and Japanese leaders liked your facilitation style, inviting inquiry, without setting the expectation of a right / wrong answer.
You as facilitator did a great job in keeping us on track, stimulating beneficial exchange and avoiding or cutting short futile discussions. With your facilitation, we took great results home and surpassed all expectations.
Sean Blair is one of the finest program facilitators I've ever had the pleasure of working with. He is amazingly thoughtful in his approach and his preparation is impeccable.
He managed our egos with consummate skill and never sought to impose his own agenda.
Pro-Meet has stood the test of time. Our best meetings are ones that stick to Pro-Meet principles and use the Pro-Meet tools. Highly recommended. And that's from someone who started out as sceptic!
Sean can walk the thin line of being a strong and connecting moderator without being the centre of the conference.
Who you will work with
Every assignment is designed and led by Sean Blair or Liam Isaac, often both, with associates from our international network joining when the work needs them.
Founder
Leads work in Singapore and Asia
Sean founded ProMeet and has designed and facilitated strategic meetings, workshops and conferences since 2000. He is an IAF Certified Professional Facilitator, a Facilitation Impact Award winner and a LEGO® Serious Play® Master Trainer whose network has trained nearly 3,000 facilitators. He was the Design Council's first Design Director and has served on five boards.
Director of Learning and Innovation
Leads work in the UK and Europe
Liam is a learning designer with 20 years' experience. He designs the workshops and programmes behind much of our client work, and has trained hundreds of SERIOUSWORK™ facilitators to use LEGO® Serious Play® for strategic and systems thinking. His background as an educator shapes how he designs: for capability that lasts, not just a good day. He is the author of Building Better Learning.
With associates in nine countries, from Germany and Finland to Hong Kong, South Africa and the Dominican Republic. About the team →
Questions
Short, direct answers. They also help search engines and AI assistants describe us accurately.
A facilitator takes responsibility for how a group works together, so the group can concentrate on what it is working on. We clarify the outcomes you need, design the process to reach them, guide the session, and make sure decisions and actions are captured and shared afterwards. We stay neutral on content and own the process.
When the stakes are high, views differ, the group is large or senior, or the leader wants to take part rather than chair. Strategy days, board and executive sessions, team resets, stakeholder workshops and conferences are typical.
Yes. ProMeet is part of Serious Outcomes, which is based in Singapore and the UK. Sean Blair leads our work in Singapore and Asia; Liam Isaac leads it in the UK and Europe. We facilitate in person across both regions, and online worldwide, with associates in Hong Kong, Korea, China, Germany, Finland and beyond.
Yes. We have run online and hybrid sessions with Zoom, Mural and Slido since 2020, including LEGO® Serious Play® online. Sean wrote the book on it, and Liam has trained hundreds of facilitators to work this way.
No. We are outcome driven and tool neutral. LEGO® Serious Play® is one of many methods we use, alongside ProMeet gridcards and wallcharts, Open Space, ORID focused conversation, Scales of Agreement, live polling and strategic illustration.
As early as you can. For important sessions, preparation usually takes longer than the session itself: understanding the context, agreeing objectives and designing the process.
ProMeet is the meeting, workshop and conference facilitation practice of Serious Outcomes. When a leadership team needs longer-term work on strategy, leadership and culture as one system, Serious Outcomes leads it.
Tell us what you need to achieve. We will help you design the time together to get there, and reply within two working days.
