15‑Minute Meeting Makeover™

Fix your next meeting in just 15 minutes

A planner approved guide to shorter, clearer, more effective meetings.

Get three proven techniques you can apply today — even if your meetings currently feel useless, chaotic, or too long.

What's inside the guide
Inside the 15‑Minute Meeting Makeover™, you’ll learn how to:

Choose the right purpose for the meeting

Every meeting has only ONE purpose. Peek inside and figure out which of the four purposes is right for your meeting.

Build a tight, timed agenda

Do you meet out of habit? Or have you ever left a meeting and wondered how you could have better spent your time? The guide shows you how to stay on task during your meeting.

End with decisions + next steps

Learn how to use roles, follow up, and after-the-meeting tasks to finish strong!

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Why it works

I’ve taught meeting planning to thousands of students, teams, and planners — and the truth is, most meetings fail for predictable reasons. The good news? They’re all fixable.

These three techniques are the fastest way to improve any meeting without:

rewriting your entire process
learning a new software tool
convincing your team to adopt a complicated system

You can implement all three in the time it takes to reheat your lunch.

Who it's for

This guide is perfect for:

Meeting planners
Team leads
Project managers
Entrepreneurs
Anyone who runs meetings and wants them to be shorter, clearer, and more effective

If you’ve ever walked out of a meeting thinking, “What did we even accomplish?” — this is for you.

Meet your professor

Hi, I'm Dr. Dede Hamm, CMP

With a PhD, a CMP, and years of experience teaching meetings at the university level, I help planners and leaders run meetings that are purposeful, efficient, and (dare I say it) enjoyable.

Think of me as your favorite meetings professor: friendly, detailed, a little nerdy about meetings, and always here to help you level up your planning skills.