Certified GatherRound Guide

bring the fire.Grow your practice.

You’ve built your work on experience and trusted relationships. Add a proven method for helping leaders tell the stories that move people, with the training, credential and support to build your business around it.

Apply to become a Guide See how certification works →

The world out there

business is chasing efficiency.People are starving for connection.

The pressure to do more with less has reshaped how organizations invest in their people, and how independent facilitators make a living.

tools over people
Development budgets shrink into another module, another subscription, another platform.
speed over connection
Meetings multiply while real conversation disappears.
the grind
Chasing the next engagement, rebuilding materials from scratch and carrying it all alone.

But the moments that move a business forward still happen between people, in a room, around a story.

Someone has to guide them.

There’s a Guide in you

you wereMade for this.

Experience in the room. Clients who trust you. The Guide program is for experienced facilitators, coaches and consultants who’d rather deliver an exceptional program than spend years building one.

  • The Trailblazer

    You’re ready to strike out on your own, and you already know who’ll call first. You want a respected method to build on from day one.

  • The Curator

    You run an established practice and choose every program you offer with care. You want one worthy of the leaders who trust you.

  • The Specialist

    You’re known for leadership, change or innovation. Storytelling makes everything you already teach land harder.

  • The Coach

    You work one-on-one with leaders. You want a proven way to prepare them for the moments that matter most.

What you’d offer

two signature programs.One proven method.

Certified Guides deliver two core Campfire Method programs, taught to thousands of leaders since 2015. You offer them through your own practice, on your own terms. GatherRound stands behind you, while you stand for your clients.

  • Presentation Sprint

    For one leader. Six weeks of one-on-one coaching built around a single high-stakes presentation.

  • Campfire Method Workshop

    For one team. A hands-on day where a leadership team builds the stories that move its ideas forward.

The GatherRound Guide program

is for you if

  • You’ve led learning for organizations, executives or leadership teams.
  • You have trusted relationships with leaders who could use this work.
  • You’d rather lead the learning than design the curriculum.
  • You’re ready to invest in your business and grow it.

isn’t for you if

  • You’d need GatherRound to find your clients for you.
  • You’d rather build a method of your own.
  • You want Guides inside your own organization. That’s Enterprise Storytelling.

Apply to become a Guide →

The thinking behind the method →

  • 2015founded
  • 8,000+leaders
  • 80+organizations

Guides bring a method trusted by organizations like these:

The Campfire Method: There’s a Braver Presenter in You, standing on a stump beside a campfire in the woods.
The method behind it

Built on the book.

Every Guide teaches from The Campfire Method: There’s a Braver Presenter in You, the framework GatherRound has taught leaders since 2015. Your clients can read it before they ever sit down at your table.

Explore The Campfire Method →
How you become a Guide

every Guide is held toThe standard clients deserve.

Certification is a selective apprenticeship of about 90 days, built the way craftsmanship is passed on. That rigor is what makes a Guide-led experience worth a premium.

  1. Step 1

    Apply and qualify

    An application and a Fireside Conversation to make sure it’s a fit for both of us.

  2. Step 2

    Learn the method

    The four pillars, the core tools and the principles behind how people learn them.

  3. Step 3

    Watch a Guide

    See The Campfire Method facilitated in the room, with real participants.

  4. Step 4

    Lead it with a Guide

    Practice and co-facilitate, with coaching at every turn.

  5. Step 5

    Lead it together

    Take the lead while a Guide works alongside you, assessing each program on its own and coaching you toward mastery.

  6. Step 6

    Light your own fire

    Earn your certification and the authorization to deliver both programs independently, through your own practice.

Behind every Guide

support that keepsThe fire burning.

Certification is only the beginning. Here’s how GatherRound helps you grow from there.

  • Sales Toolkit

    Everything you need to find the right clients, start the right conversations, write strong proposals and keep clients coming back. You’ll build your launch plan with it during certification.

  • Delivery Toolkit

    Facilitator guides, participant workbooks, exercises and evaluation tools for both programs, kept current as the method evolves.

  • Guide Network

    Founder-led sales coaching, delivery refreshers and a community of peers who share what’s working.

Clients love the frameworks. They appreciate not having to reach far for tools when it matters. And I love it when the light bulbs go off as they’re learning them.
Libby MaglioloGatherRound Guide since 2025
GatherRound Guide Libby Magliolo leads a session for a room of participants at round tables.
What happens next

three steps toA decision.

  1. Apply

    Takes about five minutes. No application fee.

  2. Review the details

    If it looks like a fit, we’ll send the full program details, including the investment, the terms and a Business Planner to project how your practice could grow.

  3. The Fireside Conversation

    A one-on-one conversation about your practice, your clients and how you facilitate.

Apply to become a Guide

tell us aboutYour practice.

Share the work you do today and the leaders you serve. If it looks like a fit, we’ll send the full program details and invite you to a Fireside Conversation.

Guide application, stage 1