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Elise Keith is the founder and meeting maven for Lucid Meetings — an online meeting platform that helps teams run highly productive meetings. She’s also the best-selling author of Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization. What you’ll learn about in this episode: How Elise began her career in business and the fortuitous twists and turns that led her to where she is now. Why Elise was motivated to strike out on her own after observing far too much discord and dysfunction in the company she initially worked with. Elise’s observations about the structure of larger companies for making decisions and her decision to create a product that would help smaller companies structure meetings so that they could make the transition from concept to reality without the drama and dysfunction that was prevalent in her own organization. The things people need to bring into meetings to solve problems and move forward: intentionality, purpose, structure. And how having a system aided in that. The imp