Table for Twelve

The board you don’t have to answer to.

Bring the problem. We’ll pick the room.

A long dinner table under warm light, every seat taken, everyone talking to someone

One person brings a problem. We pick eleven people who can help. Everyone sits down to dinner and works on it.

Some people already have a board. This is for the problem you cannot bring to it.

How it works
  1. You tell us what you are stuck on.
  2. We pick eleven people who can help, and write one line next to each name saying why.
  3. Second Wednesday of the month, 6 to 8:30. Dinner and drinks. A host runs it. Everyone gets a turn. Nobody sells.
  4. You leave with a page of what came out, and eleven people who know your name.

The first one is a trial. A few people can watch. We record it. Afterward, everyone tells us what to fix.

Two ways to sit down

Bring a problem. Tell us what you are stuck on. If it is a problem worth a room, we build the table.

Take a chair. If you have taken the Vantage Type quiz, you can ask for a chair.

No quiz yet? It takes five minutes.

What it costs

The first table is free. The problem, the chairs, the gallery, dinner. It is a trial, and you are the ones testing it.

Open tables

The first table is being set. Put your hand up below and we will tell you when it is.

What a chair gets you
  • A line that says why you are there. Keep it.
  • Eleven people who now know you, and why.
  • Dinner and drinks. You get to be the useful one.
We check this against the Vantage Type assessment.
Only so we can confirm a date. Nothing else.
A man mid-sentence at a dinner table, the table listening
Two paragraphs is plenty. Say what you are stuck on. We rewrite it so nobody can tell it is you before it goes up.
One sentence. What would make the ninety minutes worth it?

A person reads this. Nothing is automatic and nobody is invited by a machine.

Put your name on a table
Two people mid-conversation over dinner in a bright room

Some tables are for people who could never have one. A high school student. A founder who is out of people to ask. A sponsor pays for that table and their name goes on it. They get one chair.

A sponsor does not get the floor or the list. Nobody sells at the table. That is why you would want your name on it.

To sponsor a table, write to rachael@joinvantage.co.

Tables are held in partner rooms around the city. You hear where once your chair is confirmed.

Photographs by Le Salama and Kampus Production, via Pexels.