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About this workshop
About this workshop
"How to Move A Room: The art and science of influencing groups"
"How to Move A Room: The art and science of influencing groups"
Description
Description
In today’s workplace, morale is low, attention is scattered, and top-down communication often falls flat. Leaders don’t just need to inform—they need to influence.
Yet most influence advice is built for one-on-one conversations. What happens when you need to move a room?
In this engaging, story-rich session, Lindsey Caplan—a screenwriter turned organizational psychologist—introduces The Gathering Effect: a behavioral-science-based framework for influencing groups in real time.
Whether you’re leading change across a company or trying to show up differently yourself, this talk offers practical tools and emotional insight to help you transform not just what people hear—but what they feel and do.
Designed for leaders, educators, and communicators who want to spark change—not just deliver information—this session is especially helpful for those who can’t rely on authority alone and want to engage hearts and minds in the moment.
Key Takeaways:
How to lead with emotional resonance, not just intellectual authority
A 2x2 framework for turning passive listeners into active participants
How to spark engagement, boost morale, and create lasting alignment across teams
About your host - Lindsey Caplan
About your host - Lindsey Caplan
Lindsey Caplan is a screenwriter turned organizational psychologist who helps companies like Coinbase, Shell, and CrowdStrike influence at scale. She is the founder of The Gathering Effect, a consultancy that designs live experiences to align teams and drive change. Her forthcoming book, The Gathering Effect, draws from two decades of experience across Hollywood, corporate consulting, and education.
🔗 Connect with Lindsey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindseycaplan/
Details about this workshop
Details about this workshop
Duration - 45 mins
Flexibility - Is this workshop flexible in terms of timing and content? Yes, it can be tailored to certain particular needs to the chapter.
Location of Facilitator- Pacific Standard Time (located in San Francisco, CA)
Speaker Availability - Flexible
Speaking Requirements - None
How to host this event
How to host this event
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Book your facilitator -
In Culture First Slack, join the "workshop-booking" channel and start a conversation with Lindsey to arrange a time. We'd recommend reaching out with some predetermined dates and times in your initial outreach to streamline the process.
You can also email them directly at lindsey@gatheringeffect.com.
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Build your event in Bevy -
Once you've confirmed your workshop date and time, build your event in the admin dashboard on Bevy.
Add Title + Description + Speakers + Ticket Type (and quantity)
Share the event URL with the speaker
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Publish and promote -
Once you've published your event in Bevy, create an email to send out to your chapter memebrs announcing your new event or just let the automated one go out. Reminder, you can't edit the automated one. You can only turn it off or edit the time it goes out.
Consider co-hosting - reach out to the other chapter leads in slack or on our LinkedIn group and ask if anyone would like to co-host with you all.
Create a graphic for your event to be shared out on social media.
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Host event and collect feedback -
The chapter lead is required to send out the Feedback Form to community members in the post-event email.
The facilitator is to apply for reimbursement on their own. Use our Expense Process to make this quick and easy.
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