I had a chance to catch up with my friend and colleague, Jodi Engelberg, in Miami last week. Jodi is a process designer and facilitator who focuses especially on multi-sector, multi-stakeholder collaboration. She was the first president of The Value Web, a loose international network of collaborative practitioners (many of whom are schooled in the [...]
Photograph by Isaac Watras. Collaboration encompasses many things, and I’ve been lucky to have many mentors in all aspects of the field. Most of my fundamental understanding and beliefs about facilitation and creating space came from two people: Jeff Conklin (whom I interviewed in the first episode of this podcast) and Gail Taylor. For the [...]
Photograph by Sebastian Bergmann. This week’s Barnstar is Leslie Hawthorn, geek herder extraordinaire and manager of Google’s Summer of Code program, which pays college students stipends to work on open source projects. Unless you’re a core contributor to an active open source software project, you may not have heard of Leslie, but if you search [...]
As part of our continuing efforts to tell the wonderful collaborative stories of the people with whom we’re lucky enough to work, we’re pleased to announce a new podcast, Blue Oxen Barnstars. Each episode, we’ll highlight individuals doing extraordinary collaborative work. Our first guest is Jeff Conklin, who’s been a great friend and teacher for [...]
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