👋 Hi, I'm Mollie. 
I help people design & facilitate their most important gatherings.

I’m a convening designer and executive coach who has spent more than a decade refining the art of how groups come together—to drive action, build alignment, or simply to build the trust and understanding that make meaningful collaboration possible.

My consulting work with both Work for America and The Rockefeller Foundation — including co-authoring their Convening Design Guide and architecting convenings at Bellagio — has shaped how I think about convenings as a strategic lever rather than a calendar event. The best ones I've been part of weren't the most elaborate but they were the most intentional.

I work with nonprofits, foundations, and field-builders who have important work to do, and have facilitated a full range of gatherings from Funder strategy sessions to field summits that align 60+ organizations around a shared agenda. I'm especially known for my Jeffersonian-style dinners, having designed and hosted 300+ high-connection gatherings.

Convenings are too important (and too expensive) to be treated as routine events, and I love jumping in to help others succeed and ensure every moment of shared time delivers on it's intended purpose.  

Before this work, I spent time in finance (PwC, Bridgewater, Avenue Capital) and institutional partnerships, most recently as VP of Strategic Partnerships at Flatiron School. That background lives quietly in how I manage multi-stakeholder complexity, read a room, and help organizations think clearly about what they're actually trying to accomplish.

Say hello: mollie@meetinglab.co