Chair Training
Interactive workshops for new and experienced chairs, with practical tools for recognition, motions, debate, disorder, and difficult situations.
Parliamentary procedure • Governance • Training
Better meetings begin with better chairing.
Practical support for chairs, boards, unions, associations, and non-profit organizations that want meetings to be fair, efficient, understandable, and well governed.
Professional Registered Parliamentarian
Certified Parliamentarian-Teacher
Convention and meeting specialist
Services
Support tailored to the meeting in front of you.
Parliamentarian Services
Independent procedural advice before and during meetings, conventions, annual general meetings, and special assemblies.
Convention Support
Agenda planning, rules review, chair preparation, procedural briefing, floor support, and post-convention follow-up.
Bylaws and Governance
Plain-language review and drafting of bylaws, rules of order, policies, and governance processes that work in practice.
Facilitation
Structured support for complex discussions, planning sessions, governance reviews, and meetings where neutrality matters.
Custom Education
Training designed around your organization’s actual rules, culture, challenges, and decision-making environment.
Approach
Practical guidance for real meetings.
Clear
Rules and options are explained in direct, accessible language so participants understand both the process and the reason for it.
Practical
Advice is tailored to the organization, its governing documents, and the realities of the meeting rather than relying on procedure in the abstract.
Independent
Recommendations are grounded in the applicable rules and the rights of the assembly, without favouring a particular faction or outcome.
About
Experienced advice grounded in real meetings.
Better Chairing is led by Justin Schmid, PRP, CP-T, a professional parliamentarian, educator, and governance advisor with extensive experience supporting unions, non-profit organizations, professional bodies, and large deliberative assemblies.
The work is practical and organization-specific: helping leaders understand not only what the rules say, but how to apply them consistently, explain them clearly, and keep meetings moving.
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Contact
Planning a workshop, convention, or governance review?
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Based in British Columbia • Available across Canada and online