Action-Oriented Facilitation
for Results
COOLER specializes in planning and facilitating workshops, conferences, and retreats. We also provide ongoing advisory support services to help you create stronger teams and focus on strategic priorities throughout the year.
COOLER’s clients include the Smithsonian Institution, the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and the International Finance Corporation, among others. Our engagements span leadership teams of 6-25 to full teams from 15-500+ people.
June Blanks and Laurent Besançon launched COOLER in 2020 to help companies navigate team-building in a quickly shifting remote and hybrid work environment. Our focus on team-building in dynamic environments now drives our event planning and facilitation and advisory services to support strategic priorities for teams throughout the year.
We are known for our outcome-driven approach that starts with leadership goals, our thorough planning, and our highly interactive retreats and events.
Like the water cooler, only COOLER
All great events start with a centralizing principle - the goals or themes that drive where the team is headed or specific challenges to work through together - and a desired outcome. We think of these centralizing principles as the water cooler and as facilitators and advisors it is our craft to gather people together to focus on the goals, themes, and strategic priorities in a way that is welcoming, interactive and well planned, to focus the team moving toward an outcome together.
What Clients Are Saying
“To a T - An overwhelmingly positive experience.”
“Great at helping our team re-engage.”
“Our event was terrific! We couldn’t believe the interactions and participation among 200 people!”
“COOLER has helped us start solving for multi-year areas for improvement in our staff survey.”
“Solutions focused, team approach!”
Meeting and Retreat Facilitation
COOLER helps you plan and facilitate successful events of varying sizes - from small, focused leadership and team meetings to specific workshops, to one day and multi-day retreats and knowledge forums.
We pride ourselves in our collaborative work with your team lead(s), our detailed organization and project management, outcome-oriented workshop and segment planning, support to internal and guest speakers for preparedness, support to moderators, interactive segments, planning agenda flow for a successful experience, engaging event facilitation, and our follow-up summary to memorialize strengths of the event and identifying areas with promising momentum to assist in carrying the themes and outcomes forward.
Contact June and Laurent at June@Cooler.Work and Laurent.Besancon@Cooler.Work to coordinate an initial, informational meeting.
More details on our facilitation serves are here.
Consulting and Advisory Support
We often find a common experience among clients for a desire to more strongly support the work and initiatives focussed on during retreats and other events after the event with a dedicated effort.
COOLER provides ongoing, hands-on support to leadership and teams to progress key initiatives throughout the year, beyond a retreat or forum. COOLER becomes a driver for specific strategy initiatives, project managing progress, holding facilitated meetings to allow leadership or teams to focus on these topics in an organized and streamlined fashion, documenting and aiding progress, and providing blueprints for action and next steps.
Well-Being Specialization
Workplace well-being is an area of specialization for COOLER. COOLER is a pioneer in developing workplace well-being tools for teams. We believe that wellness and well-being are the new center of company culture and the foundation for culture-building.
Our meaningful tools help your team members incorporate well-being practices in their work and lives as they continue to navigate the work-life balance and challenges posed by change.
COOLER’s well-being workshops and resources can be a standalone resource or training for teams or can also be included in a larger retreat or event. More on COOLER’s workplace well-being tools here.
Email us at June@Cooler.Work and Laurent.Besancon@Cooler.Work for more information.
Action-oriented facilitation to meet a team’s goals
Follow COOLER on social for well-being and team-building bonus posts
CONTACT US
We look forward to connecting with you!
Book a Zoom - If you know you want to have a quick chat, you can book 25-min here to have a virtual information session with June - COOLER’s Head of Product and Experience.
Or email hello@cooler.work with any questions.
* Check spam or promotions folders if you don’t see a response from us within 24 hours