Ben Roberts has been convening and hosting conversations on a regular basis since March 2009, when he began leading a local weekly “Discussion Salon” that continues to this day. He specializes in making virtual events come alive, either as stand-alone events or in conjunction with in-person gatherings. He has extensive experience adapting large group conversational processes such as World Cafe, Open Space Technology and Appreciative Inquiry to the virtual realm, as well as integrating in-person and virtual formats within a single conversation, gathering or engagement. Ben uses these processes to support collaboration, build communities of practice and purpose, and to host large scale conversations in service to the work being done across multiple dimensions of global systemic transformation.
