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15 October 2025 13:00Hotel Diplomat


Why Facilitative Leadership Matters Today

In today’s competitive and fast-changing business landscape, senior leaders face a paradox: decisions need to be made faster than ever, while the complexity of challenges demands broader perspectives and deeper engagement. Traditional directive leadership alone is no longer enough.

Facilitative Leadership equips you to harness the collective intelligence of your teams, foster psychological safety, and create conditions where innovation, agility, and trust flourish. This is not about slowing down for endless dialogue or being a workshop-leader — it is about enabling better decisions, faster execution, and stronger business outcomes by leveraging a key human skill: curiosity.

👉 Join this certification course to strengthen your leadership impact, master facilitative approaches and tools, and gain practical strategies to unleash collaboration that delivers real business results.

Spots are limited to 15 people for maximum learning.

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What You Will Gain

By the end of this course, you will have:

Knowledge & Insights

  • A clear framework for balancing directive and facilitative leadership.

  • A deeper understanding of psychological safety in a leadership context. 

  • Decision-making strategies that combine speed, inclusivity, and quality.

Behaviours & Skills

  • The ability to lead with curiosity to unleash collective intelligence.

  • Tools to read group dynamics, manage stress moments, and counteract groupthink.

  • Techniques to facilitate yourself. How to pause, reframe, and intentionally choose the most effective leadership approach.

  • How to use interventions, powerful questions, and facilitative language to unleash the full potential of your group. 

Mentimeter Best Practices

  • Live experience using Mentimeter to spark curiosity and engagement

  • Practical methods for leveraging anonymity to surface honest input and avoid groupthink.

  • Tangible examples of how to leverage interactivity and active participation as a leader

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for senior leaders, typically Team Leaders, Directors, VPs, or Heads of Functions, who:

  • Lead teams where innovation, speed, quality and results are critical.

  • Want to strengthen their ability to tap into the collective intelligence of their team rather than relying solely on directive leadership.

  • Are responsible for making strategic decisions where the stakes are high. 

Course Structure & Content

Module 1 

Psychological Safety

  • Psychological Safety: Understand what it is and how you create it as a leader. 

  • Directive vs. Facilitative: Balancing the two perspectives for ultimate outcomes - both high-level in a process and hands-on in a meeting. 

Module 2

Read the Room (Dinner)

  • Individual Leadership: Explore your current state, aspirations, and blockers through a lens of curiosity.

  • Facilitating Yourself: Understand and recognize personal triggers. Learn how to pause and respond with intention.


Module 3

Lead the Room

  • Leveraging Curiosity: Read the room, ask powerful questions, and listen wholeheartedly.

  • Decision Making: Unlock collective intelligence and apply practical tools for consensus building and effective decision making.


Module 4

Drive Action

  • After Action Review: Learn from a situation, understand what was working and why, and create alternative pathways. 

  • Successful Interventions: Step in with confidence, choose the right approach, and guide groups toward progress. 

  • Work Through Your Triggers: Recognize emotional reactions, reframe limiting beliefs, and respond with intention.

    Diploma & Certification

    Participants who complete the course will receive a Diploma in Facilitative Leadership, which is a formal recognition of your ability to lead with curiosity, unleash collective intelligence, and deliver stronger business outcomes.

    Cost & Practicalities

    When: October 15-16 and November 3rd, 2025

    • Module 1: Wednesday, October 15th, 13:00 - 17:00 (On-site, Hotel Diplomat)

    • Module 2: Wednesday, October 15th, 18.00 - 21.30 (Dinner Learning Experience in central Stockholm)

    • Module 3: Thursday, October 16th, 08:30 - 12:00   (On-site, Mentimeter HQ Tulegatan 11)

    • Module 4: Monday, November 3rd, 13.00 - 16.00 (Remote) 

    Assignment for Certification: Facilitate a session at your workplace between October 16th and November 3rd, and complete the reflection assignment. 

      Format and time: Three half-day intensive sessions + one dinner session + assignment (in total 12 - 16 hours)

      Price: SEK 24 000 / €2,200 (invoiced)

      Includes: 

      • All training materials and presentations
      • Fika, fruits, nuts 
      • Exclusive dinner in chambre separee, central Stockholm
      • Certification Diploma (pdf + LinkedIn) 

      Group Size: Limited to 15 people to ensure high interaction, depth, and real change

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      Meet your Trainer

      Anna Gullstrand is Chief People & Culture Officer at Mentimeter, a thought leader in leadership, culture, and facilitation, and author of Faciliterа! (eng Facilitate!), winner of the HR Book Of The Year in Sweden 2020. With over 15 years in senior leadership roles, Anna combines deep expertise in human-centered design with a strong focus on business outcomes.

      Anna has coached and trained leaders across industries to build more innovative, agile, and high-performing organizations. Known for her engaging style and practical insights, Anna inspires leaders to use curiosity as a core leadership muscle — transforming group dynamics into a true competitive advantage

      Anna Gullstrand
      Chief People & Culture Officer @ Mentimeter

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