I’m Eric Meade, principal at the Whole Mind Strategy Group. I facilitate team and organizational processes to help clients solve their gnarliest problems and find their place in a complex and uncertain world. I work mainly with community-facing organizations like libraries, health centers, nonprofits, and the foundations and government bodies that support them.
When someone else has a “best practice” for the challenge you face, call them.
When there is no “best practice,” call me.
My book, Whole Mind Facilitation: How to Lead Workshops That Change People, Organizations, and the World, presents the philosophy I bring to facilitation. My approach combines authenticity, courage, wit, and adaptability to help clients work through their challenges and find a path forward, helping them become the best next versions of themselves.
My work draws upon my experiences as a naval submarine officer, INSEAD MBA, sourcing executive in China, nonprofit executive in DC, futurist, author, entrepreneur, and father.
Here’s what people are saying about me:
“What you’ve been able to do here in Memphis is to help people think not just ‘outside the box’ but ‘outside the building.’ With the way you first of all listen and second of all encourage openness, you have the capacity for people to trust you almost instantly. I’m not sure that’s something you’ve acquired or something you were born with. I just think you have an innate ability to listen and to have people feel comfortable in your presence and to know they can say whatever they want to say and you won’t use it inappropriately.”
Robert R. Waller, MD
Former CEO
The Mayo Clinic
“Having Eric facilitate our strategic planning process has exceeded my hopes for the product itself and has provided an exceptional professional development opportunity for our team as well. He has a rare ability to move between roles of facilitator, content expert, coach, confidant, and fellow practitioner, humbly ensuring the best ideas prevail regardless of their source. I value his insights enormously, and would trust him with any project. All of that, plus a dry wit and writer’s talent for synthesizing ideas make him one of the finest facilitators I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with.”
Bill Fulton
Founder & Executive Director
The Civic Canopy
“Eric is a dear personal friend, and someone whose deep insights and thought-provoking conversations I have valued for many years. He was the first person I turned to when I wanted feedback on the manuscript to my book Reinventing Organizations and he helped me improve the chapters on developmental theory in significant ways. What strikes me with Eric is his ability to take unusual perspectives, to confront ideas from seemingly unrelated fields to bring out new insights, to leave conventional ground and to dare think new thoughts. And to do so with both gentleness and yet fierce courage. I know that every time I have a conversation with Eric, I will learn something and chew on our conversation for some time to come.”
Frederic Laloux
Author
Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
