YPO Members: Forum Trainings

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Since 2000, Brian has worked with YPO as a retreat and chapter event resource and trainer supporting YPO members and their spouses.

Brian’s unique background as facilitator and coach and keynoter, combined with twelve years as a CEO and seven years as a YPO member, contributes to consistent ratings of nines and tens!

Forum Trainings

Brian has extensive experience in conducting trainings for YPO members.

These include Forum Fundamentals, Forum Moderator and Leadership Development Program, Transformational Forum Training (TFT), and new training programs designed by YPO to take mature forums even deeper.

Brian offers chapter-wide or forum-specific training on the new 4 Step Forum Exploration Process. This process can shift your entire forum experience to make it more connecting and even transformational!

Brian custom-designs programs to launch new Forums from those that are in transition because they have lost or gained a significant number of members, are addressing conflict among members, or simply want to take their Forum experience to a safer, more intimate, higher value level.

Forum can grow stale with time. Brian has new ways of approaching updates and presentations that reinvigorate Forum experience and support the continuing evolution of a Forum.

Read What YPO Members are Saying About Brian

• Brian is a great facilitator. He allowed us to continue growing on our forum journey. Hands down the best facilitator I’ve had in 15 years in YPO.
  YPO Member, Mid-Atlantic Region

• During our Forum Week we trained new members, spouses, young adults and had four sessions with all forum members in YPO in our chapter. Everyone loved the sessions and Brian performed beautifully. What a great resource. I am confident in recommending Brian to anyone looking for a high quality leader.
  William Meder
  YPO Forum Officer – Quebec Chapter

• We engaged Brian as a resource for our annual forum retreat, and are extremely glad that we did.  Over the course of two half day sessions, Brian led forum discussions and exercises which have improved forum dynamics and also provided individual enlightenment for each member.  Additionally, he did his research upfront and was very good at connecting with each member and making the discussions relevant and personal.  I have received very positive feedback from every forum member regarding Brian’s work with us, and we have had follow-up discussions at our monthly meetings post-retreat to help ensure that we leverage the learning from our time spent with Brian.
  Ken Jones
  YPO Member, Kansas City

• My YPO Forum has worked with Brian six times over the past eight years, and each time has found tremendous value in his facilitation of our retreats. Brian is an effective listener, facilitator and coach. Not only has he helped each of us grow personally, but he has left us with tools to improve the performance of our group.
  Neal Simon
  US Capital Chapter Forum Moderator
  
  
• In my Forum Moderator Leadership Training with Brian Gast a large topic was managed in a very thoughtful and succinct way, while remaining open to individual questions/needs. The forum meeting in the second half was excellent.
  Forum Moderator, Colorado Chapter

• Thank you Brian for helping our forum. I think it has made a world of difference in taking us to the “transformational level.”
  Forum Moderator, Southern California

• Brian lead our forum through tough conversations that we weren’t sure of how to have.
  Forum Moderator, Rocky Mountain

• Brian has amazing skills in negotiating tricky issues within a forum. His insights and examples of moderator leadership will be pivotal for the health and continuation of our forum.
  Forum Moderator, Colorado Chapter

• Brian facilitated great discussion between the members of our group which allowed us to learn about one another and explore solutions to our own hurdles. He provided useful activities, shared interesting personal experiences and left us with accountability exercises to encourage ongoing success in our area of focus. Over all it was a very productive weekend and I left feeling encouraged and inspired and I’ve quickly put his gratitude practices to work at home and in the office.
  Forum Moderator, Bermuda Chapter

• I felt Brian gave us a clear understanding of how forum works in its most beneficial way. He was also able to get us all to dive deep in a short time. Which in turn gave us all the opportunity to make quicker and more meaningful bonds.
  Forum Moderator, New Regional Spouse Forum

• Our forum experienced Brian Gast’s Q7 Leadership Development Program in our retreat this year. It was an outstanding and transformational experience. I left the retreat with a much better understanding of who I am and what fundamental beliefs guide my thinking and motivate my behavior. Brian Gast’s high energy, enthusiasm and unadulterated interest in and deep understanding of each participant as an individual, is remarkable. The Q7 Leadership Program is far and away the most insightful, fun and useful leadership program I have ever participated in; it is incisive, experiential and incredibly enlightening. It should be mandatory for every leader.
  John S. Bank
  Chicago Forum member
  
  
• Brian is an attuned and a gifted facilitator. He is centered which makes him extremely effective, trustworthy and able to get at the group and individual awareness and truth.
  Kansas City Forum member
  
  
• Brian was authentic and real. He was prepared and had a good pulse on our group. Brian worked appropriately to keep us engaged and the results were excellent.
  Colorado Chapter Forum member