# Why Meetings Are Broken and How to Fix Them with Dr. Rebecca Hinds

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Podcast: [What’s Possible w. Ilene Schaffer](https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-possible-w-ilene-schaffer-6386035)
Published: 2026-02-05T09:00:00+00:00
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Meetings are one of the biggest drains on time, energy, and focus at work, but they don’t have to be. In this episode of What’s Possible, Ilene Schaffer sits down with organizational scholar Rebecca Hinds, author of “Your Best Meeting Ever,” to radically rethink how meetings are designed, facilitated, and experienced. Together, they explore why most meetings fail, how to purge unnecessary ones, and how to intentionally redesign the meetings that remain, whether they’re hybrid, one-on-one, wal...

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