Cornelius Rachieru is the Founder and Managing Director of Canadian strategic UX consultancy Ampli2de Inc., where he explores his fascination with the politics of design while leading service and system-scale enterprise experience design projects. Over the past 20 years, he has managed a number of large UX teams as UX practice leader at Deloitte Canada and Shaw Communications, and has worked in a wide range of industries, from technology to financial services, healthcare, enterprise risk management, autonomous transportation, intellectual property and law.
Cornelius is also the Founder, Co-chair and Creative Director of the popular CanUX conference, Canada's largest and longest running annual UX event. A self proclaimed night owl (he is originally from Transylvania), he loves red eye flights and is a nomad at heart.
Workshops are a fantastic way to get a group to work together - usually to understand and solve some kind of problem. However, it can be hard to get people working well together and keep them on track for an extended amount of time.In this (educational) workshop, you will learn how to plan and facilitate a design workshop that achieves great outcomes and actively involves everyone in the room.It will cover:- Forming concrete goals for the session- Deciding on structure and methods- Running the workshop itself- Reading the room, managing people and making sure everyone is included- Neutral facilitation- Managing time and space- Helping people create - craft, drawing and storytellingThis will be a workshop within a workshop. It will be entirely activity-based, with learning embedded into activities and reinforced with theory and material to follow-up later. We'll focus primarily on skills for in-person workshops, but will also discuss how to modify methods for online workshops.
