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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Dec 2025
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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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Aug 2025
Re-envisioning Scaling – a 10 year review
I have had an evolving relationship with the concept of 'scaling’. I first started using the term (pivoting from ‘international outreach’ into the business realm of ‘scaling’) via an [...]
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Apr 2025
Collaboration
Although collaboration is always an effective approach (as the saying goes: "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together) in times [...]
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Feb 2025
Adaptable organizations
We are indeed living in challenging times. The covid pandemic challenged us and our organizations in one way, the current change in the US administration is challenging us in [...]
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Oct 2024
Engaging Internationally: Constants and Changes
For almost three decades! I have been writing about engaging internationally. There was a group of NGOs that were already operating internationally in the mid-1990’s (when this story starts [...]
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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 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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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 [...]