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Strategic PA Network | Online Power Hour | Fri 11th Sept, 12.00pm - 1.00pm | Culture Shift: Improving C Suite Team Collaboration With Better Meetings

Friday 11th September 2026 12.00pm - 1.00pm - BST

Location: Online

Culture shift: improving executive team collaboration with better meetings
 
As an EA or PA, you can often spot culture problems in executive and senior teams before anyone else. Through email exchanges, meeting dynamics, cancelled appointments, informal conversations and people voicing their frustrations, you can observe frictions and tensions below the surface that slowly build up into something larger.
 
These problems can impact you and your colleagues, causing confusion, inefficiency and unnecessary drama, but you may feel it’s not your place to fix them. However, you are in a unique position to shape and influence culture, ease pressure, and move conversations forward in a subtle, yet powerful way.
 
Meetings are where culture shows up more than anywhere else, whether that’s a monthly leadership team check-in or a more extensive offsite event. You can observe dynamics in who speaks up and who doesn’t, how conversations run and decisions are made. And so, meetings are also where you can change it.
 
In this power hour, Alison Coward will show you how you can improve team culture by changing the meetings you plan and organise.
 
You will learn how to:
 
You will walk away with more confidence of the impact you can make through small shifts in how meetings are run.

Speaker

Alison Coward

Alison Coward is the founder of Bracket, a consultancy that partners with ambitious, forward-thinking companies to help them build high-performing team cultures. She is a team culture strategist, advisor, workshop facilitator, keynote speaker and author of “Workshop Culture: a guide to building teams that thrive” and “A Pocket Guide to Effective Workshops”. Clients include: Google, Meta, Wellcome and the V&A. With 20 years’ experience working in, leading and facilitating creative teams, Alison is passionate about finding the balance between creativity, productivity and collaboration so that teams can thrive and do their best work together.

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