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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Aug 2026
When the Ground Shifts
When the Ground Shifts As we are all well aware, there are many things that are changing in our world and in the professional environments in which we engage. [...]
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Mar 2026
Global Trends and Leadership Strategies
As the world changes at a rapid pace our organizations must be agile. We need the ability to respond to sudden changes, to anticipate those that can be seen [...]
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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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Feb 2024
Transitioning the Testing Change project
As many of you who have been readers of this blog know, I have written a number of times over the past years about the Civil Society and Testing [...]
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Apr 2023
Multi-stakeholder initiatives
Introduction One of the most rewarding parts of my work over the years has been helping to create and nurture multi-stakeholder efforts. Multi-stakeholder initiatives are voluntary partnerships between groups [...]
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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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Jun 2022
Youth inclusion – what we’ve learned
The Testing Change project is a global collaboration of organizations who set out to identify and test some new operational approaches that could help organizations stay relevant. We have thus [...]