PART 3 — The Facilitation Crisis: Why We Must Train Leaders to Convene

Facilitation isn’t a soft skill, it’s the missing architecture of modern leadership. Here’s how Washington, and everything downstream of it, would look if we took convening seriously.

There is a moment in every long conversation when the background noise of Washington falls away and the real issue finally reveals itself. It happened with Robin after months of circling the same problem from different angles — one day in a café, another day in her office, sometimes at my table, sometimes at hers. We weren’t conducting research as much …