You already know something is wrong with your meetings.
The hour that could have been thirty minutes. The decision deferred for the third time. The room full of capable people that produced nothing actionable and reconvened the following week to have the same conversation again. The instinct is to blame the people in the room. The problem is almost never the people. It's the design.
The meetings on your calendar were not built — they accumulated. And they persist because invisible forces keep them alive that have nothing to do with whether they're useful. The Meeting Design Intensive gives you a structural diagnosis of what's producing the dysfunction, and a complete framework for redesigning it from the ground up.
What you'll work through
- The five meeting archetypes — the Update Parade, the Roundtable Drift, the Leadership Briefing, the Parking Lot, the Calendar Legacy — and what each one is protecting
- The Meeting Gravity Model — the five forces that keep unproductive meetings alive despite everyone's frustration
- The SANE framework — Structure, Authority, Need, Execution — four elements that address root causes rather than symptoms
- The Five Minute Design Habit — the pause before every meeting you schedule and the four questions that determine whether it should exist
- The portfolio audit — a framework for sorting every recurring meeting on your calendar into Keep, Redesign, or End
Each module ends with a single reflection question. No writing required — just honest attention.
After this course you will:
- See meeting dysfunction as a design problem, not a people problem
- Name the archetype and gravity force running in any meeting in real time
- Apply SANE to any meeting you run — before, during, and after
- Audit and redesign your full calendar, not just individual meetings
This course is for anyone who runs meetings, attends them, or is responsible for the culture in which they happen. If meeting best practices haven't stuck before, this course explains exactly why — and gives you structural tools that do.
About your instructor
Jamie Jenkins is the founder of Stratified Consulting and a strategic advisor with more than twenty years of experience in enterprise transformation, organizational design, and facilitation. The Meeting Design Intensive is built on Flim Flam Meeting Detox, the first book in the Flim Flam Series. Everything in the course has been tested in real organizations, with real teams, across real levels of dysfunction.
Jamie teaches at the university level, consults with leadership teams through Stratified Consulting, and delivers workshops and speaking engagements for organizations navigating complexity and change. She serves on the City of Tampa Human Rights Board and is a graduate of the University of South Florida and the University of Miami.
Want to go further?
The Flim Flam Reset Intensive combines this course with a 60-minute private working session with Jamie — applied directly to your meetings, your team, and your specific situation.