Urban floods are a growing challenge in cities worldwide. Modern sustainable flood-management approaches focus on controlling the quantity and quality of stormwater, while providing benefits to people in cities (i.e. ecosystem services). Stormwater management ponds (SWMPs) are one for the most widely used structures for sustainable stormwater management worldwide. However, a comprehensive understanding of the ecosystem services provided by SWMPs is lacking. Here, we compile information derived from a co-production workshop built to identify and prioritize ecosystem services in SWMPs to provide information for advancing planning and management. Our workshop was multidisciplinary and diverse, relying on iterative and collaborative processes among students, academics, managers, consultants/developers, and the community to build context-specific knowledge. Workshop participants identified multiple provisioning, regulating, supporting, and cultural services in SWMPs. Priorities identified for services were related to education, followed by habitat provisioning, regulation of temperature/ sediment/floods, nurturing human vs nature policy, human health, and greenspace, respectively. Prioritization varied among the different players, who identified a suite of actions to help incorporate prioritized services into planning and management, exposing pervasive concerns related to funding and regulations. Our workshop findings highlight the need to reconcile multiple priorities towards clear and diverse ecosystem service targets for advancing towards stormwater management systems that integrate ecology and community for sustainable cities.