Workshops Are Not the Product: Moving from Moments to Systems
Most workshops work. Very few change anything.
Workshops, frameworks, and templates can create momentum in the moment. Real value only shows up when organisations can sustain the work after the consultant leaves. Today, the real differentiators are capability transfer, leadership ownership, and systems that shape day-to-day behaviour, not one-off moments.
In this session, Adam Davis, Cofounder and CEO at Colab, reframes what client delivery actually needs to optimise for. Not better workshops, but durable systems that continue to work long after the engagement ends.
💡 What you’ll leave with:
Drawing on real delivery experience, he'll walk us through:
Why train-the-trainer is often the real product, not the workshop itself
Why frameworks alone rarely change behaviour, and what systems do instead
How leadership capability becomes either the bottleneck or the multiplier for impact
What it actually looks like to design delivery as a system rather than an event
The session will be lightly interactive, using Miro to help participants reflect on what typically breaks once they leave a client. Together, we’ll map the shift from moments (workshops, outputs) to systems (capability, ownership, and sustained execution).
This session is about reframing delivery so the work doesn’t just land well in the room, but actually sticks.
🗓️ Happening on: March 5, Thursday, 5-6pm CET (GMT+1)
🧠 About the Speaker
Over the past decade, Adam Davis has built products, teams, and businesses from the ground up—from launching and monetising net-new products at companies such as Hootsuite and Rightmove, to leading enterprise growth and strategy at Productboard, to founding Colab, which now supports product teams at organisations including Visa, Xero, and the BBC.
With deep experience in the trenches, Adam has worked across problem validation, product–market fit, shipping and scaling, and aligning cross-functional teams around clear product strategy.
At Colab, they bring a practical, operator-led perspective on how to build products that solve real problems, generate revenue, and scale sustainably—supported by the systems and rituals that help teams move fast without breaking the business.
🔥 About Miro Reframe Series
Miro Reframe is a webinar series for consultants and agencies who know old ways-of-working aren't working anymore - and want to rethink what great client work looks like today.
We bring together leading practitioners to explore how modern consultancies are rethinking delivery, engagement, and impact in the age of AI.