When you gather with others, do you often find those events somewhat disappointing or perhaps leaving you wishing for something more?

On this episode, Priya Parker challenges to take action to make our gatherings more meaningful and

transformative.

This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 395.

Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.

Greetings to you from Orange County, California.

This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac.

Leaders aren't born, they're made, and this weekly show gives you access to the practical

wisdom that will empower you to become a better leader.

Most all of you as part of our community are in the business and even if not in the business, certainly in your personal lives of gathering people together.

All of us really are in the place where we are part of gatherings and many of us in this community

gather people formally and informally within our

organizations, within our industries, professional conferences, and certainly

personally. And yet it is a skill that most of us have never really received any direction or training or even

mentorship on on how to gather people effectively.

It is very much an art.

Today's guest is someone who has done a tremendous amount of work

and really developed an expertise in the art of gathering people.

I am so thrilled to welcome Priya Parker to the show today.

She is a facilitator, strategic advisor, and founder of Thrive Labs at which she helps activists,

elected officials, corporate executives, educators, and philanthropists create

transformative gatherings. She works with teams and leaders across technology, business, the arts,

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