Matter provides facilitated solutions, either through intensive 2-5 day DesignShop® events or through more extensive engagements where facilitation methods help achieve alignment in complex, often un-clear situations involving large numbers of people. Whether an intense 3-day DesignShop event or a broader ten-week facilitated project, Matter provides focus, acceleration, and creative collaboration to its client’s most talented and impassioned people.

Matter’s events and projects make use of a simple Scan-Focus-Act structure, allowing participants to deeply understand an issue’s context and develop a common language before diving deep to stress test various options, and to drive towards a detailed solution.

Matter is a member of the MGTaylor community of practitioners and as such shares with a small number of colleagues a unique transition management methodology. This patented approach is built around several fundamental elements:

• a specially-built facilitation environment
• a series of models useful for identifying decision variables and inflection points and for charting event agendas.

DesignShops bring participants on a journey of shared discovery, collective buy-in and alignment around self-built solutions.

DesignShops integrate the knowledge and experience of all interested parties to identify a plausible solution.

Unlike most other facilitation methodologies, DesignShops provide increasing returns to scale: their ability to address complex issues grows with each additional participant and their effectiveness increases exponentially with each additional day of work.