21 year old self made learner.

Currently in a sales role for Spitzer Ford Hartville selling 10-14 cars per month.

Before that I started Northeast Property Washes to manufacture my own sales experience.
Founding NEPW, I had to teach myself a few things:
-Door-to-door Sales
-Social Media Advertising
-If I wanted anything meaningful- it required EVERYTHING

Spitzer has allowed me to hone in my people skills and the basics of sales.
-100 cold calls/ day
-Negotiate 

Ideally a next role would be another evolution of sales- software sales, tech sales, financial planning.

I will always be learning.

Nick Villanti

FewerFasterBolder

Founder

Onefish Twofish Ltd

We help organisations enable a fast, agile culture to emerge, including new ways of working for a complex working era. We work with leaders to shoot for difficult-to-reach milestones and make cultural changes by winning hearts and minds with *very honest, human, direct communication*.

My work is underpinned by Adult-To-Adult communication and enables people to take responsibility, speak the truth and joyfully make stuff happen.

We are LoMo facilitators: www.lomo-meetings.co.uk

Director - B2B Marketing | Employee Engagement

LoMo Meetings

Co-Founder

50th Generation

50th Generation is an incubator in Cambridge, London and Cape Town for meaningful, growing businesses

50th Generation companies create money AND meaning, through sophisticated business methodology, an abundant mindset, and powerful community.

www.50thgeneration.org

University of Cambridge

I speak or lecture at a range of programmes at Cambridge University Judge Business School, including modules on 'routes to market', entrepreneurship and critical leadership communication.

Visiting lecturer

Unboxed

My role is to bring digital technology and agile practice to markets with the greatest need for it:

Healthcare - reducing admin, improving patient experience and health outcomes in the NHS, reaching the 'hard to reach'

Government - working with both Central Government and Local Government helping them reduce cost and improve services by taking manual services online

Learning and education media - shifting traditional print or chalk/talk education to new media and making it accessible to a wider and more diverse audience. From early years to scientific publications. From state education to private publishing.

Responsible for bringing digital technology to: Healthcare, Government, Learning, Energy

Shirlaws

I worked in partnership with Shirlaws to design and deliver business owner engagement in the UK

Marketing partner

Getfeedback

Marketing Manager

I'll help you meet and collaborate better | Next FrictionFree email: Why tribal behaviour explains everything about work (and meetings...)

Meeting culture is a huge and under-scrutinised issue. It's costing productivity, employee morale and the delivery of your strategy. 

It's usually symptomatic of a deeper systems problem: 'collabureaucracy' - and THIS is why companies are drowning in collaboration communication.

5 signs you're in collabureacracy - and need more than just a set of meeting rules:
- Lots of conversations but struggling to get to decisions and action
- People are exhausted from frustrating back to back meetings each day
- Teams missing milestones because people don’t have enough time for deep work
- People struggling to collaborate across teams and feeling unclear and frustrated
- Circular conversations and poor interactions with colleagues in meetings are creating friction

Book a 25-min call with me: https://calendar.app.google/m8A2tTCZsmmMJ6Bc6 

---  Why I can help where others have failed --- 

Much of what we’re told about meetings 
- comes from the industrial era 
- is not evidence-based
- focuses on tactics like agendas and timekeeping
- fails to serve knowledge-based collaborative work

FewerFasterBolder is a mindset and meeting toolkit fit for the *collaborative* era which
- goes to the heart of what underpins meetings: culture, leadership and psychology (not process and technology)
- helps people of different styles and with different goals to collaborate together without ego
- focuses on progress, not process
- releases weary teams from meeting burnout 
- enables meetings to go deeper, faster to get to what matters
- is based on research and evidence


--- What can you expect from me and FewerFasterBolder --- 

- Reduce current meeting time by 30-50% – one org reduced theirs by 75% in 6 weeks.
- Start hitting milestones on time and solving the deep-rooted problems that have been holding you back
- Improve the quality of meetings dramatically – sharper discussions and outcomes, no more circles or rabbit holes
- Build great trust-filled relationships across the org though clear energising interactions with colleagues
- Get to the heart of what really matters sooner and make good decisions that everyone backs


Find our more: www.fewerfasterbolder.com
Book call: https://calendar.app.google/m8A2tTCZsmmMJ6Bc6

Dr Carrie Goucher

Today, let's learn a technique to stop wasting time in group chat in 2026: Flashtagging

Originally coined by Hubspot, 'flashtagging' is a hashtag added to a message in a chat to convey strength of opinion AKA "Hill Dying Status" 

(i.e. do I feel so strongly about this that it's a hill I'm willing to die on?). 

These tags have an assigned shared meaning so they can create context and reduce confusion in a single word.

Like this:

#fyi (Fine to act on it or not. No biggie. No response needed or expected.)

#suggestion (Here's something I would do if I were you. But you own this so your call, just let me know either way)

#recommendation or #strongrecommendation (I've given this a lot of thought. If you go a different route, have a good rationale for it)

#plea (Just trust me on this, ok! Please.)

I'll share examples for each and six more ways to use this kind of tagging in the carousel below 👇


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👋  I’m Carrie - I share techniques every day to help you go to fewer, better meetings and get your team collaborating without the friction.

Invite me to speak and I'll teach your whole organisation how to meet 'fewer, faster, bolder' 🔥

Redesigning how we meet and collaborate: deliver what your org is capable of | PhD in Meeting Culture (Cambridge) | TEDx speaker | Trusted by big brands, NHS and government

Reduce confusion and speed up action in group chat

Oh how I love to rescue. 

You've got a problem? Pick me, I'll solve it! 

• I could just draft a few slides to get you going?
• Shall I book a call and we can talk through what you need to do?
• Just send it to me and I'll give it a quick whizz through
• Let me give them a call and sort it out
• Oh dear! OK, how about I....

And if I have literally zero time - no probs, I'll send you a thought provoking voicenote while I'm cleaning my teeth!

Rescuing is SO powerful because it appeals to not one, not two but THREE strong human urges.

1. To stay in control so nothing bad happens
2. To avoid conflict so nothing bad happens
3. To be perceived as valuable so nothing bad happens

All three are 'basic' human instincts. Stay alive. 

These instincts serve my basic needs, not my higher needs. I can do better and so can you.

Try these:

• Ok, talk to me about timelines and what other work you think should be put back
• Let me know what support would be most useful and when
• What are the options you're considering?
• What's your recommendation?
• What will you do and what would you like me to do?

Or better still, say: "" 

(i.e. nothing  - the implication being you don't need me to 'organise you' with my questions!)

There is a fine art to Not Rescuing. 

It's definitely not abdicating or chucking people under a bus.

But it's more than just turning your need for control into coaching questions (though that is an acceptable first step I most certainly use when I'm struggling to Resist The Rescue!)

It assumes other people do not need fixing, organising or structuring.

It sees people as resourceful and capable of learning. 

It holds space and improves the quality of someone's thinking.

Like many of these skills I talk about, it's a lifetime's work 😍

When I look back at some of the 'worst' meeting cultures I've worked on, they had one thing in common.

They came to me with "our meeting culture is terrible, we need help!" e.g

👉  People were triple booked all day long or

👉  Everything important-but-difficult brushed under the carpet or

👉  Diaries bogged down in dense, formal meetings pouring through huge documents


What did they all have in common?

What they described as a "terrible meeting culture" was the overuse of a cultural value.

💡   Everyone triple booked? 

This organisation was overusing a value for inclusivity. They didn't want to miss people our or lose their perspective to they invited everyone to everything.


💡   Everything important brushed under the carpet?

This organisation's people prided themselves on being friendly and agreeable. Overuse of this strength meant they didn't feel able to disagree and be 'the disagreeable one'. 


💡   Dense and formal meetings?

The subject matter was absolutely worthy of due process - but the overuse of process and formality meant no one truly participated and nothing moved forward. 


-> The point of this is that thinking of these issues as 'overuse of a strength' can be a real lightbulb moment. 

Let me know what strength your organisation overuses.

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👋  I’m Carrie - I share techniques every day to help you go to fewer, better meetings and get your team collaborating without the friction.

Invite me to speak and I'll teach your whole organisation how to meet 'fewer, faster, bolder' 🔥

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