Strengthening our Connective Tissue
We’re good at gathering, in person and now virtually, and sometimes we’re even good at following up, but the ties that are needed to connect and nurture various efforts over [...]
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Oct 2026
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Dec 2025
Navigating disruptive change – Five years of learning
In March 2020 the world was shocked with the emergence and rapid spread of the covid pandemic; in January 2025 we were hit again with the rapid dismantling of the [...]
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Sep 2025
The importance of working intergenerationally
To address the world’s challenges, we need all of us working together. We need to recognize our blind spots and be *intentionally* inclusive within our organization’s approaches and processes. There [...]
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Apr 2024
Leadership
I’ve been reflecting a lot on leadership recently. As a former executive director and now facilitating peer cohorts of executive directors, I’ve been thinking about what’s changed in leadership approaches [...]
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Feb 2023
Peer learning
As a former executive director, I have always seen the value of peer support and understand how hard it can be to make time for in the day to day [...]
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Nov 2022
Learning as we go
Through this blog I periodically share learning from projects I have recently been involved with. These can be reminders of things we know but in the day to day press [...]
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Dec 2020
Rebuilding civil society
Recently I had the opportunity to co-create, host and facilitate the annual workshop of Accountable Now. We used many of the approaches that we have developed through the Testing Change [...]
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Dec 2019
Most popular blog posts of the decade
It is hard to believe we are already at the end of the decade (and that I’ve been blogging for a decade!) but here we are :) For my end [...]
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Nov 2019
Themes and Tips from a Peer Convening
Upswell is a convening organized by the national organization Independent Sector to bring together those working towards change in the social sector in the US. The following are a few [...]
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Feb 2019
The long term nature of change
I’ve been leading an initiative that’s now going into its sixth year and have thus been thinking about some of our learning around long term change. Long term change for [...]