Name: November Meetup
Start: 2025-11-20T18:30:00Z
End: 2025-11-20T21:00:00Z
Location: 15gifts

Join us for our November meetup - an evening of learning and networking with the local lean and agile community.

Arrival - 18:30
Talks start - 19:00
Finish - approx 21:00

Speakers: Rachelle Williams and Haroon Khalil

Many thanks to our friends at 15gifts for hosting this event, and to Silicon Brighton for their ongoing support of both our events and the wider Brighton tech community.

**How the Brain Really Works: Six Principles for Facilitation - Rachelle Williams**

Facilitation doesn’t have to mean long lectures or holding all the answers. Research shows that people engage best when sessions are active, social, and brain-friendly.

In this interactive talk, you’ll explore the six brain science principles for facilitation from Training from the BACK of the Room! and discover how to apply them to your own workshops, meetings, and training. Through simple activities, you’ll experience how writing, images, talking, short chunks, variety, and movement can transform facilitation from passive delivery to memorable participation.

You’ll leave with practical strategies to make your facilitation more engaging, inclusive, and impactful; helping groups stay energised, contribute fully, and carry forward the outcomes long after the session ends.

***About Rachelle***

Rachelle Williams is a methodology-agnostic Agile Coach & Consultant with nearly a decade of experience across industries including healthcare, pharma, media, defence, and retail. Guided by a people-first approach and a passion for continuous improvement; helps teams and leaders build environments where psychological safety and collaboration thrive. Rachelle is a certified Training from the BACK of the Room! (TBR) Trainer, equipping facilitators and change leaders with brain-based tools to design engaging, learner-led experiences. Known for her authenticity and energy, she blends coaching, facilitation, and consulting to leave clients more confident, capable, and self-sufficient.

**Continuous everything : how might we better shape habits? - Haroon Khalil**

"Whenever you want to change your behavior, you can simply ask yourself: How can I make it obvious? How can I make it attractive? How can I make it easy? How can I make it satisfying?"
\- James Clear

Discover continuous improvement from the lens of 'Atomic Habits', inspired by the works of James Clear.

Explore techniques that might create better habit forming outcomes for you, your team, and your organisation.

Learn how to practically leverage the habit loop to create a continuous improvement flow.

***About Haroon***

Haroon Khalil is an Executive Agility Consultant and Professional Coach working with organizations globally to help unlock better ways to adapt and respond to change.

He blends his in-depth Lean-Agile knowledge and professional coaching background with an open mind to help clients explore their unique practices to help shape the environments that will be right for them, at their stage of their journey, in their organisation, and to deliver the business results.

He has developed his style and approach over the last 10+ years by working as an Executive Coach, Agile Coach and Strategy Consultant across a range of industries including Banking, Consultancy, FinTech, FMCG, Insurance, Start Ups, Sports, and Public Sector organizations.

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