The Meeting Innovation Company
We make it easy for teams to run successful meetings every day.
Everyone meets, and at some level, everyone struggles to meet well. In the past, most businesses could get away with leaving leaders to figure out their meetings on their own.
Not anymore. Today's knowledge-based economy thrives on rapid information flow, agility, and change. Interdependent teams tackling increasingly complex work must meet well to keep up. Otherwise, teams suffer too much time wasted in unproductive meetings, preventing them from achieving their goals.
Research shows that the way an organization meets impacts:
- Employee engagement and retention
- Productivity
- Decision making quality and velocity
- Top line business performance
You don't need research to tell you that, of course, because if you've been in a bad meeting, you know.
Great meetings propel performance. Bad meetings drag performance down. We work to solve the problem of the chronically bad meetings that prevent organizations from achieving their best.
Our Focus
Unlike the many facilitators and coaches we work with, our focus is not on how to design and run one productive meeting. Instead, we focus on the underlying systems that make successful meetings a regular part of your organization's culture.
That's why organizations that want successful meetings every day, not just on special occasions, turn to us. Over the past 10 years, we've worked with thousands of organizations to make it easier for them to run successful meetings.
Our Company
Lucid Meetings and Meeting School are properties of Second Rise, LLC. We're a remote-first, majority woman-owned company with headquarters in Portland, OR and team members around the world.
Meet Our CEO, J. Elise Keith
J. Elise Keith is the founder and CEO of Lucid Meetings, where she leads the research, publication, and product management efforts, constantly seeking the best ways to make it easy for people to enjoy meetings that get work done. Leaders call her work “a treasure trove of valuable info and guidance” and “a game-changer for our organization.”
Elise Keith’s highly praised book, Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization has been described as “golden. It’s deep, well-researched, and a joy to read,” and “Of all of the books I’ve read on meetings, this is the best by far.”
Elise writes the Ask the Meeting Maven column on Inc.com, and is regular contributor and expert commentator on all things business meetings (as seen in BBC News, Harvard Business School, SHRM Magazine, Industry Week, and Forbes.)
Elise is a frequent speaker and guest lecturer at corporations, industry events, and universities, where she shares her meeting expertise in presentations and workshops that audiences say are “inspiring,” “full of practical methods we can apply,” and “fill in all the gaps I didn’t even know I had!”
Elise currently lives in Portland, OR with her husband, three children, and a rotating cast of extras. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, action movies, travel, and listening to people tell stories about their meetings. Seriously.
