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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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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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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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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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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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 [...]
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May 2022
The Truths that Remain
Daffodils are known in some cultures for truth, trust, self-awareness and renewal I have been doing a lot of listening over the early part of 2022 (through virtual [...]