Your Best Meeting Ever: Get Things Done While Reclaiming Your Calendar with Rebecca Hinds * Spark60 Event*

Spark60 Presents Author and Work Transformation Expert Rebecca Hinds

Meetings are broken. Most organizations are still relying on meeting models that are relics of a bygone era, designed for top-down hierarchies rather than the collaborative, digital world we work in today. These outdated procedures don't just waste time; they actively harm productivity and leave employees feeling drained by soul-crushing time sinks.

The breakthrough happens when you stop treating meetings as an inevitable burden and start viewing them as a product. By applying rigorous design principles to your collaboration, you can transform fractured communication into a powerful tool for progress. In Your Best Meeting Ever: 7 Principles for Designing Meetings That Get Things Done, organizational expert Rebecca Hinds, PhD, provides a battle-tested blueprint to help you serve your most important "users"—the people in your organization.

Drawing on research from giants like Google, Salesforce, and Pixar, Hinds reveals how to move past the “knee-jerk” meeting default. Now is the time to be audacious, challenge existing norms, and embrace a new paradigm where meetings drive work forward instead of standing in its way.

Practical Tools and Strategies You'll Gain

• The "Meeting Doomsday" Framework: Learn this bold strategy to audit your calendar and eliminate autopilot meetings for good.
• Design Better Meetings: How to apply design principles to ensure every meeting delivers value to your team.
• Fix the Knee-Jerk Default: Practical tactics to shift your culture away from meetings as a first resort.

Ideal Participants for This Conversation

• Individuals who are tired of losing their most productive hours to packed calendars and want the tools to reclaim their time and collaborate more effectively.
• Leaders and managers looking to fix fractured collaboration within their teams by replacing old-fashioned work habits with science-backed, high-performance meeting structures.

You don’t have to dread yet another meeting. Join Rebecca Hinds to discover how to rethink your workday and turn your calendar into your greatest asset for getting things done.

About the Author

Rebecca Hinds is a leading expert on work transformation and the future of work. Rebecca earned a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Stanford University. In 2022, she founded the Work Innovation Lab at Asana, a first-of-its-kind think tank that conducts actionable research to help leaders and organizations navigate the growing challenges and changes of work. In 2025, she founded the Work AI Institute at Glean, where she leads cutting-edge research on how AI is reshaping work. Rebecca's award-winning research and insights are consistently featured in places like Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Inc., and Time. Rebecca was a co-instructor for the 2025 CNBC Make It course, How to Use AI to Be More Successful at Work, and is the author of Your Best Meeting Ever—named a Next Big Idea Club “must-read” and praised by Adam Grant as “required reading.”

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