Out Loud | Where Thinking Happens

Where Thinking Happens

The right conversation, held well, changes everything.

Out Loud is a facilitation, moderation and ideas coaching practice and a thinking partner for the individual with an idea ready to move.

I don’t manage agendas. I create the conditions where the thinking that actually needs to happen finally does.

Built for the conversations, ideas and breakthroughs that matter.

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Innovation Facilitation · AI x Human Convos · Sensemaking Sessions · Offsite + Retreat Facilitation · Event, Fireside Chat + Panel Moderation · Moderated Think Tanks · Idea Salons · Business Storytelling · Decision-Making Sessions · Creative Problem Solving · Team Alignment · Retainer-Based Facilitation · Learning + Peer Coaching Circles · Mastermind Facilitation · Speed Sessions · Visioning Sessions · Goal Alignment · Retrospectives · Feedback + Feedforward Sessions · Quarterly, Annual + End of Year Check-Ins · Brainstorming · Strategic Planning · Small Business Facilitation ·

The real problem

Your organization isn’t short on meetings. It’s short on outcomes.

Teams leave the room without alignment. Decisions get relitigated. The loudest voice wins, and the best ideas never surface. The agenda gets followed. The room doesn’t.

That’s not a scheduling problem. It’s a facilitation problem. And it’s costing you more than you think: in time, momentum and the ideas that never got a fair hearing.

Out Loud exists for the moments where something has to change. Where the conversation, the strategy, or the idea needs to actually go somewhere.

70%
of corporate managers report that meetings are costly and unproductive. (MIT Sloan Management Review)
71%
of senior leaders say meetings are unproductive and inefficient. (Harvard Business Review)
$37B
lost annually in the US alone to unproductive meetings. (Atlassian)

Who I am

Not your average facilitator.

I follow the room, not the agenda.

Out Loud is a facilitation, moderation and ideas coaching practice and a thinking partner for the individual with an idea ready to move. I don’t manage agendas. I create the conditions where the thinking that actually needs to happen finally does.

I bring 20+ years of experience across Fortune 500 firms, small businesses, universities and entrepreneurial ecosystems: in the room as a facilitator and moderator, behind the strategy as a learning architect and one-on-one as an ideas coach. I don’t show up with a template and a timer. I design each engagement from the ground up, around your people, your challenge and the outcome you actually need.

Every engagement includes collaborative design, real-time adjustment, and follow-up support. From the first conversation to the last debrief, I hold the room … and the thinking behind it.

What I do

9 ways to work with Out Loud

Innovative Thinking
Think Out Loud

Brainstorming, problem-solving and creative strategy sessions for teams ready to think differently. Design sprints, ideation labs, and decision-making jams, designed for the ideas that haven’t surfaced yet. Also available as AI x Human Convos, facilitated sensemaking sessions for teams navigating the human side of AI: psychological safety, uncertainty, trust, governance, risk and the questions technology can’t answer for you.

Project-based
Offsites + Retreats
Lead Out Loud

Strategic offsites, executive retreats, leadership alignment sessions and more. For the moments where the direction of the organization gets decided and clarity is non-negotiable.

Project-based
Learning
Learn Out Loud

Learning circles, peer coaching, cohorts, communities of practice, and mastermind facilitation. For organizations and groups building cultures where people grow through each other, not just through content. I hold the space. The learning happens in the conversation.

Program-based
Business Storytelling
Story Out Loud

Your team has something important to say. Story Out Loud is where you find it, shape it, and build the narrative that moves people to action. Through story-finding and storytelling facilitation (using proven structures like the Golden Circle, Hero’s Journey and the Pixar Pitch), I help innovation teams and organizations step out of the technical weeds and craft the stories that make their work land. Pitches, presentations, brand narratives, and change communications.

Project-based
Group Visioning
Dream Out Loud

Before strategy comes vision. Before execution comes permission to dream. Dream Out Loud is a group visioning experience for retreats and transformation gatherings, helping leadership teams, professional communities and curated groups reconnect with imagination, play with possibility and envision futures worth building. This is the existential work: who are we, what do we stand for and what future are we building toward? Without the pressure to have it all figured out yet. For leadership teams, nonprofit boards, professional communities, curated groups, visionaries and bold thinkers at a crossroads..

Event-based
Event + Panel Moderation
Host Out Loud

Event and panel moderation, fireside chats, conference facilitation and more. For summits, convenings and thought leadership events where the conversation needs a skilled hand to stay on track and come alive.

Event-based
1:1 Ideas Coaching
Hour Out Loud

You have an idea, a challenge or a learning initiative that’s been living in your head long enough. In one focused hour, I help you think it through, shape it and figure out what it’s actually asking of you … whether you’re a founder with a vision, a knowledge creator (author, coach, consultant, educator, thought leader) with a concept or an L&D professional trying to figure out how to bring something to life. (See introductory rate below.)

$500 · 60 minutes · Book Now
Keynotes + Panel Conversations
Speak Out Loud

Some conversations need more than a good facilitator. They need a voice. Cachet is available for keynotes and panel conversations where the human questions matter as much as the technical ones. Current topics include The Uncontrolled Variable, a social scientist’s case for putting people back at the center of the AI conversation, and Called Out Loud, on creative identity and the cost of staying silent. Conferences, corporate events, and leadership gatherings welcome.

Event-based
Retainer Service
Your In-House Facilitator

Your retained facilitator, available on an ongoing basis. When your organization needs someone to consistently design and hold the room, I’m already in context, already aligned, and ready. No re-briefing, no starting from scratch. Just a trusted facilitation partner who knows your people, your culture, and your goals..

Retainer · Ongoing

Who I serve

Every breakthrough starts with the right conversation.

01

Teams (big and small) that are stuck

Alignment is off. Decisions aren’t sticking. The loudest voice keeps winning. Whether you’re a leadership team at a large organization or a small business with big moments ahead (planning days, goal-setting sessions, year-end reflections), you need someone to hold the conversation differently and get the team somewhere new..

02

Events that need a skilled voice

An offsite, a retreat, a strategic planning session. The stakes are high and you need more than a good agenda. You need someone who can design and hold the whole thing.

03

The L&D professional or people leader with something to figure out

You’re trying to bring a learning initiative to life and you’re not sure how to approach it. Or you’re a leader navigating a people development challenge and need a thinking partner, not a consultant. You don’t need someone to own your L&D function. You need one focused conversation with someone who’s been in that room and knows how to help you think it through.

04

The individual with an idea ready to move

You’ve been circling this idea long enough. You don’t need a business coach or a cheerleader. You need one focused hour with someone who knows how to ask the right questions and help you finally think it through.

How it works

Full-cycle. Every time.

01

Collaborative Agenda Design

I don’t show up with a template. I design each engagement around your people, your goals, and the outcome you need — before anyone arrives.

02

Risk Identification

I proactively identify what could derail the session: tension points, power dynamics, unspoken agendas. I design around them.

03

Leader Prep

When it serves the engagement, I prep your leaders beforehand. So they show up ready to participate, not manage.

04

Real-Time Facilitation

I manage the flow and adjust in real-time — following the conversation, not the agenda — so the discussion goes where it actually needs to go.

05

Output Capture

Every engagement produces something. Decisions, ideas, priorities, commitments. I capture and synthesize outputs so the work doesn’t stay in the session.

06

Follow-Up Support

The conversation doesn’t end when the session does. Follow-up available to keep momentum, accountability and progress moving forward.

The Out Loud difference

Most facilitators follow the agenda. Out Loud follows the room.

Who’s in your room

Cachet Prescott

Founder

Cachet Prescott
20+ years in L&D and learning experience design
10+ years of Fortune 500 facilitation experience
Dual master’s degrees, I/O Psychology & Sociology
ICF Certified Coach with 13+ years of coaching experience
Former Adjunct Faculty for various institutions

How I’m wired

CliftonStrengths Top 5 Ideation  ·  Relator  ·  Futuristic  ·  Empathy  ·  Belief
Enneagram 4 · The Individualist
Myers-Briggs INFJ
Four Tendencies Questioner
Communication Style Expressive & Amiable

I’ve spent over a decade in rooms where the stakes were high and the thinking had to be generative. Senior MDs. University leadership teams. Founders building the next thing. And in every one of those rooms, the same truth held: the agenda is just a starting point.

What moves a room is someone who can read the energy, hold the tension, and create the conditions for the conversation that actually needs to happen. That’s what I bring to every engagement: not a process, but a presence.

Out Loud is built on the belief that the right conversation, held well, changes everything.

As seen in
Forbes
HuffPost
Fast Company

Career experience

The rooms I’ve been in.

Over the course of my career, I’ve had the privilege of working alongside some of the world’s most recognized organizations across industries. This experience informs everything I bring into the room.

Consumer Goods

  • Bose
  • Colgate
  • Hunter Douglas
  • illy Caffé

Financial Services

  • Bank of Montreal
  • Barclays
  • BNP Paribas
  • Citi
  • EZCORP
  • Goldman Sachs
  • HSBC
  • ING
  • JP Morgan Chase
  • Macquarie
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Royal Bank of Canada
  • R.W. Baird & Co.

Higher Education

  • Fairfield University
  • McGill University
  • University of Georgia
  • University of Tennessee – Knoxville
  • University of Virginia
  • Valdosta State University
  • Wiregrass Georgia Technical College

Insurance

  • Munich Re
  • Primma
  • Swiss Re

Non-Profit

  • Eye to Eye
  • Fly By Nature
  • NAESM, Inc.
  • Thrive Alliance

Professional Services

  • Arcadia Consulting
  • Citrin Cooperman
  • Summit Consulting
  • Workplaceless

Technology

  • Adenza
  • Broadridge Financial Solutions
  • Cobalt
  • Google
  • Jobcase
  • Presentr

Other Industries

  • AJ’s Heating & Air Conditioning (HVAC)
  • Amazon (E-Commerce)
  • Fe League (Professional Membership)
  • Johnson & Johnson (Pharmaceutical)
  • OBAP (Professional Association)
  • Oil Dri Corporation of America (Manufacturing)
  • Selfmade (Entrepreneur Services)
  • Southern Company (Utilities)
  • Station 7 (Retail)

What people say

In their own words.

Ready to bring Out Loud in?

Let’s talk about what you need.

Every engagement starts with a conversation. Tell me about your team, your idea, or your challenge and what you need to walk away with. I’ll take it from there.

Discovery Call

30 minutes.
No pitch. Just a real conversation.

I’ll listen to what you’re working with, share how I approach it, and we’ll figure out together whether Out Loud is the right fit.

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Out Loud

Built for the conversations, ideas and breakthroughs that matter.

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