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How Do You Get the Best Out of a Room Full of Smart People?

Put a room full of smart people together, and you should get brilliant ideas, right?

Not necessarily.

Sometimes you get competing agendas. Endless discussion. The loudest voice wins. Good ideas get lost. And everyone leaves wondering why making a decision was so hard.

So what does it actually take to help smart people think better together?

Join The Association of Value Webs for a new conversation inspired by Brighter, written by Betty Dhamers, Langdon Morris, Tom Kehner, and Jorge Bogumil.

We’ll explore the often-overlooked art of collective intelligence: how to create the conditions for people to listen differently, see beyond their own perspective, build on each other’s thinking, and make smarter decisions—together and faster.

Because the goal isn’t to make everyone agree.

It’s to make the room smarter than any one person in it.

Come ready to challenge your assumptions, share what you’ve learned, and experiment with what becomes possible when we stop simply putting smart people in the same room—and start helping them work better together.

Host Bio:

Betty Dhamers started working at the Paris ASE (Accelerated Solutions Environment) in 2000 and was immediately convinced by what she saw.

As an MG Taylor practitioner, she has worked across industry sectors to help clients tackle high-stakes issues by structuring the emergence of group genius. Along with three of her closest colleagues (Tom Kehner, Langdon Morris, and Jorge Bogumil), she aims to make this way of working more widely known by publishing Brighter in January 2026.  Because large-scale collaboration efforts are the key to solving the stubborn socio-organizational problems of the 21st century. 

https://brighter.lovable.app/

https://wow-waysofworking.com/