Facilitation & Team Development

The right conversations spark breakthroughs. Cael designs and facilitate experiences that foster collaboration, growth, and bold thinking. From strategy offsites to hands-on workshops, she brings energy, structure, and creativity to guide teams toward clarity, stronger connections, and actionable outcomes tailored to their needs.

How I Can Help

  • Design and lead customized workshops that spark creativity, collaboration, and clarity

  • Facilitate offsite strategy sessions to align teams, set vision, and energize execution

  • Build innovative and entrepreneurial mindsets that stick

  • Strengthen cross-functional teamwork with interactive, hands-on experiences

  • Inspire and engage audiences as a guest speaker on creativity, entrepreneurship, or design thinking

 

With 100+ hours of facilitation experience, Cael leads workshops on entrepreneurship, design thinking, pitching and more, helping participants refine ideas and communicate their vision with impact. 

Trained in LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, her style blends empathy, playfulness, and disciplined organization to create dynamic, collaborative experiences.

Curated Workshops Examples

  • Design Thinking

    VCU da Vinci Center | Shelfie Program 2023-2025

  • The Art of the Pitch

    Henrico Innovation Challenge 2024

  • Adobe and Marketing

    American Marketing Association VCU 2024

  • Ideation & Prototyping Focused Design Thinking

    VCU School of Medicine 2024

  • The Art of the Pitch

    2024 Connect Conference

  • Gaining Empathy to Validate your Ideas

    VCU School of Medicine 2025

  • Learning Empathy

    Code RVA 2024

  • Empowering Impact through the Change Model

    AmeriCorps VISTA and VCU da Vinci Center 2025

  • Pitching Yourself

    2025 CHW Summit

  • Ideation with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®

    Commonwealth Managers Association 2025

Workshop Topics

  • LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®: Use LEGO® bricks as a tool for creative problem-solving, collaboration, and unlocking new perspectives.

  • The Art of the Pitch: Learn how to craft compelling stories, communicate ideas with clarity, and build confidence in your presentation.

  • Pitching Yourself/Creating your Personal Brand: Learn how to present your personal story, highlight your strengths, and position yourself authentically in interviews, networking, or professional opportunities.

  • Design Thinking: Learn the fundamentals of design thinking and generate human-centered solutions.

  • Ideation: Explore structured techniques to generate, refine, and prioritize ideas for maximum impact.

  • Prototyping: Bring ideas to life quickly and effectively through hands-on prototyping methods.

  • Gaining Empathy to Validate Your Ideas: Learn how to connect with end users, uncover insights, and validate assumptions to ensure your solutions resonate.

  • Business Model Canvas: Map out the building blocks of your business idea and explore how each piece connects to create value.

Each workshop has a standard structure, but every session can be expanded, mixed, or fully customized to fit your organization’s needs.

Testimonials

  • "I enjoyed Cael Parker's presentation because I am always seeking personal growth, self reflection, ways to be more mindful, attentive to myself while providing the right amount of attentiveness to others, ways to be better personally and professionally."

    Participant, Summer Institute for School Nursing 2025

    Pitching Yourself

  • "Cael led an engaging and insightful design thinking session for the VCU Alumni community, and the experience was both interactive and impactful. Her expertise, creativity, and energy guided us through new ways of approaching challenges, leaving participants with practical tools they could carry forward. We especially appreciated her flexibility in adapting seamlessly to a last-minute shift to a virtual format. The feedback from attendees has been overwhelmingly positive, highlighting the meaningful learning experience she created. Cael is a thoughtful facilitator and strategic partner, and we look forward to future collaborations."

    Tiera Byrd, Office of Development and Alumni Relation

    Design Your Way Forward: Innovate, Adapt, Solve Facilitation

  • "You taught me how to keep the end-user in mind in ALL that I do! Your workshops made a significant difference in how I approached my undergrad capstone projects and work since graduation. Wishing you the best! I know you’ll be a fantastic addition to a program or product team."

    Participant, VCU Undergrad

    Design Thinking

  • “Cael was wonderful to work with. She was timely and professional in communication and demonstrated thoughtful planning. She was able to listen to me deeply and modify her materials to adapt to medical students. She came up with creative ideas to approach medical students. She had good presentation skills and kept the students’ attention. We worked together over two years developing several sessions that introduced medical students to design thinking concepts. We created assignments for students to apply their new learning.”

    Melissa Bradner, Associate Professor VCU Department of Family Medicine and Population Health

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