64. How to become a Professional Facilitator

Farah is a Digital Project Manager & Agile change lead with 10 years of experience. She developed strong skills in project & product management, communication and teams empowerment in complex, fast-paced and multicultural environments. Knowledge sharing and training is Farah's passion. 

Since 2015, Farah has provided trainings in Project Management (Waterfall / Agile), I&T Governance and Design Thinking in France, Canada and Switzerland for people coming from different sectors: bank & insurance companies, NGOs, energy, consulting and IT companies, public services, railways, aviation, telecoms

Farah's proudest accomplishment is being confident enough to create her own company specialized in consulting and training (Project management, I&T Governance and Design Thinking) for young and senior professionals, along with being able to expand it to the North African region. 

Marion's current role involves consultancy programmes and projects for BlueVisions and the Institute of Management. Typical change initiatives include Project Management Frameworks, Capability Frameworks and Vocational Education-type projects and programmes, along with all the Change Management activities to ensure the successful implementation and outcomes of each of the projects and programmes are achieved.

Many of Marion's projects include upskilling for clients and employees and they do this through the delivery of several International Certifications like AgilePM, Change Management and Marion's new favourite project topic – Praxis, as well as local Australian qualifications in the project and programme management space.

Attention to customer service and student experience, using innovative and modern techniques, provides superior results!

Marion's proudest achievement?

• Inheriting a class of Diploma of Project Management students that two trainers had given-up on as they said the students were too disruptive. I was able to get these students to settle in to their studies with twenty-six out of twenty-nine students recieving their qualifications.

Strukturen für Mensch und Organisation sind die Leidenschaft von Dieter Strasser. Diesen widmet er seit 1992 seine Aufmerksamkeit als mehrfach akkreditierter Trainer, Coach und Facilitator sowie als Reviewer, Übersetzer, Qualitätssicherer oder bei Produktentwicklungen sowie in Schemenkommittees. Als Ritter gegen Dogmen arbeitet er stets an variablen Konzepten. Überbordende Administration und oberflächliches Quatschen ist ihm ein Greuel. Seine Empfehlungen sind schlank und entspannt für den Alltag ausgerichtet.

Structures for people and organisations are Dieter Strasser’s passion. Since 1992, he has devoted his attention to these as a multi-accredited trainer, coach and facilitator. He has also worked as a reviewer and translator as well as in quality assurance, in product developments and in scheme committees. As a ‘knight against dogmas’, he always works on variable concepts. Excessive administration and superficial chatter are anathema to him. His recommendations are lean and relaxed for everyday life.

With his background in psychology and NLP, Thijs quickly assesses individuals and teams, and responds in a way that best enhances their learning trajectory. He uses many different facilitative techniques and can adapt on the spot to what is happening in a training or workshop in the moment.

In this way, Thijs can maximize the learning effect for participants. The real-life situations that happen in a training are often best to make the material and knowledge stick. Because of that, his training are also very pragmatic and experiential. It is more an interactive workshop than a traditional training.

Thijs has received an average rating of a 4.6 on a 5-scale by the participants of his courses (based on 500+ evaluations).