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We live in an environment where leaders want to convene large groups of people around the table to collaborate and problem solve, but we just don't know how. It hardly ever goes well. -Executive Higher Education Leader

About Us

Anca Castillo

Dr. Cary Lopez

Dr. Cary Lopez

Co(Founder) and Co(CEO)

Specializing in: executive storytelling, human centered design, visual communication, and leadership development

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Dr. Cary Lopez

Dr. Cary Lopez

Dr. Cary Lopez

Co(Founder) and Co(CEO)

Specializing in: design thinking, communication, instructional design, project management, and strategy development

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Our Origin Story

 As executive leaders who worked primarily with other executive leaders, we know first-hand the challenges of ineffective meetings. Quite honestly, meetings suck! 


One day, after yet another ineffective meeting where tensions where high, nothing was truly discussed or achieved, and people left thinking "why was I even there" we threw our hands up and said: enough is enough! 


As experienced and passionate process improvement, design thinking, and facilitation experts, we got together to brainstorm how to improve the conversations leaders were having (or not having) to help them move away from swirling around topics and band aiding problems. That is when we realized that for years people have been trained to focused on designing everything else in our lives to make things easier, yet we have never been taught how to have effective and productive collaborative conversations. 


Flooded with requests for facilitated design sessions, we focused on creating a conversational design tool that was intuitive & flexible and requires minimal training. After 6 year of prototyping, redesigning, and testing with 1000+ users, we created our CONVO framework. CONVO is the go-to solution for leaders who need to work effectively with diverse personalities and stakeholders to achieve their goals.


But its impact didn't stop there. Without knowing it, our framework started to transform leaders, cultures, and organizations by scaffolding vulnerability, developing safe environments for sharing & collaborating, and activating creativity to solve wicked problems.

People will have difference of opinions and we have to find productive ways to work through that. Meetings are not working. Which is why we must replace meetings with collaborative conversation (aka CONVOs) and equip leaders and their teams with the ability to facilitate them!

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