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From “Fluffy” to Fundable: Financing Relational Work
From “Fluffy” to Fundable: Financing Relational Work
Lately, I’ve spent my morning walks with my slightly unruly golden doodle, Flossie, listening to episodes of The…
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AI & systems change: Hold the eye rollJul 8, 2025
AI & systems change: Hold the eye roll
(for 5 mins only) For those of us working in systems change, our craft is relationships. We’re bridge-builders…
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The Power of Not Knowing: How to Lead Without Being the ExpertJun 19, 2025
The Power of Not Knowing: How to Lead Without Being the Expert
As a consultant and a teacher of systems change, I regularly dive headfirst into confusing conversations with…
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Don’t Start a Community of Practice Unless You Do These 5 ThingsJun 2, 2025
Don’t Start a Community of Practice Unless You Do These 5 Things
Thought for the day from the World’s Greatest Margarets… “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed…
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Juggling Chaos, Consultants & Coffee: Real Talk on Network LeadershipMay 7, 2025
Juggling Chaos, Consultants & Coffee: Real Talk on Network Leadership
Working in networks brings with it a unique set of challenges. Leading in networks means being everyone’s go-to person,…
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Growing up ginger in Britain. Not for the weak hearted.May 1, 2025
Growing up ginger in Britain. Not for the weak hearted.
Last week, my 12-year-old daughter found out some girls at school were making comments about her body. I rolled out her…
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From Flocking Birds to Cornflakes: What Marketing Taught Me About Systems ChangeApr 14, 2025
From Flocking Birds to Cornflakes: What Marketing Taught Me About Systems Change
In my early 20s, I moved to Sydney on a working holiday visa. I hopped jobs every few months, but my favorite, by far…
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💛 What Marrying into an Indian Family Taught Me About Working Across DifferenceApr 7, 2025
💛 What Marrying into an Indian Family Taught Me About Working Across Difference
My in-laws are coming to stay with us again next month and it has got me thinking..
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What do you do when your carefully crafted strategy suddenly becomes useless?Mar 18, 2025
What do you do when your carefully crafted strategy suddenly becomes useless?
I recently designed a high stakes workshop with colleagues who’d been convening a #communityofpractice for a few years.…
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Building a Coalition Is Easy—On PaperMar 7, 2025
Building a Coalition Is Easy—On Paper
Building a coalition is, on paper, rather easy. Pull together a set of different kinds of organizations, who work on…
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Rachel Sinha shared thisLoved being with Leonard Parker Pool Institute for Health teaching systems change to their brilliant Fellowship again this year. This project just underlines to me what inspiring systems change work goes on in cities like Allentown, often under the radar - but truly groundbreaking.Rachel Sinha shared thisIn November, the Pool Fellowship for Health hosted Rachel Sinha, Director at The Systems Studio, for an introduction to systems change principles and mapping tools. Fellows explored how to see root causes, identify leverage points, and design strategies that work across complexity. Why does this matter for cross-sector partnerships? Because health challenges are interconnected—spanning policy, culture, economics, and community. Systems mapping helps partners: ✽ Understand where individuals fit in the context of a larger system ✽ Reveal hidden dynamics like power flows and identify which part of the system we are trying to change ✽ Align multi-level strategies for lasting impact Rachel reminded us that systems change isn’t about quick fixes—it’s about transforming the conditions that hold problems in place. These tools help us move from isolated interventions to ecosystem thinking, where collaboration drives real change. Thank you, Rachel, for joining us!
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Rachel Sinha reposted thisRachel Sinha reposted thisStill thinking of joining Systems. Change. Educators. Unite....? Why not do it today or tomorrow as the Founding Membership doors close after Sunday (November 30th). https://lnkd.in/eHxE8FkH And FYI, we are doing a SCEU members in-person retreat in Somerset this July at the incredible 42 Acres retreat center, hugely discounted thanks to a generous grant from a UK Foundation. This means educators, systems professionals, and social change/impact leaders can convene, connect, and nourish themselves in a world-class retreat experience that they deserve but which otherwise is typically cost prohibitive for many. (Some room types are nearly full, so join us soon!) And finally - we have so many great talks and workshops coming up that you wont want to miss, starting with one about the roles of system change with Rachel Sinha on Monday! SCEU members can register for the call via the portal but everyone else who is considering SCEU membership can sign up for a free call any time before the end of the year here! https://lnkd.in/e4tueHzF We also have a consulting for systems change call coming up with Lara Evoy and Véronique Carbonneau and a call to help us all be better online facilitators with Neetal Parekh and Emily Grantz and more! And so much good stuff planned for 2026 that will be on the site soon... Join us!
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Rachel Sinha shared thisSuper cool offer from long-time network builder David Hodgson- for any of you running #networks, this is likely to be very good!Rachel Sinha shared thisI've spent years getting frustrated with the tools available for running impact networks - so I built Mycelial to solve the problems I kept running into. At its heart, it's about making network weaving easier. We use AI to help with the time consuming work of connecting the right people, keep member profiles organized, and make it simple to share events and updates - whether that's across your whole network or just within specific working groups. It plays nicely with whatever you're already using: WhatsApp, Signal, Slack, whatever works for you. We're in beta right now. If you're building or managing a network and want to try it out, I'd love to have you: https://lnkd.in/gUgT3bJK #ImpactNetworks #Collaboration #NetworkWeavingMycelial - The Operating System for Impact NetworksMycelial - The Operating System for Impact Networks
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Rachel Sinha shared thisSo pleased to be part of the team that made this fundraising effort happen! with Peter Brach Gannon Gillespie Robert Roth and othersRachel Sinha shared thisTo all of those who joined the Catalyst Now and Propel Philanthropy efforts in recent weeks: We did it!!! We are thrilled to let you know that we have successfully raised $350,000 towards this effort, exceeding our goal and driving vital, additional resources for a MAJOR infusion of funds on GivingTuesday, in a year when our sector truly needs them. Thank you to everyone who supported this effort! Because of your giving, sharing, and commitment, one of the strongest resources for the entire social sector, GivingTuesday, will be able to advance confidently into this challenging moment and drive many more millions of dollars to nonprofits this year. Now, we can shift into a new mode: this year more than any, let’s make GivingTuesday a huge success by sharing the fundraising and outreach tools + resources that are now available on GivingTuesday’s site. https://lnkd.in/duUKN2Nq We particularly recommend looking at the AI Corner at the above page which could be truly helpful, especially for smaller organizations that might not have internal support to develop effective campaigns and language. Finally, we will be looking at how to bring more of this conversation and collective action into our community in the future. If you want to stay engaged to that end, please continue to reach out with thoughts and ideas, and watch the Propel Philanthropy channel Linkedin as well as GivingTuesday’s page here. Thank you again and more soon!
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Rachel Sinha shared thisHooray for 'investing in infrastructure to build enabling conditions'. More from Pando Funding. When we won major funding for The Finance Innovation Lab it was to build 'infrastructure for systems change', knowing that what we were doing was building the conditions for new relationships to bloom, to reset the direction of the system. Different people were working together, ideating together, building trust with one another, and this intentional holding of new space over the long-term, was like a petri dish for new projects to emerge.Rachel Sinha shared thisThe innovation in Pando Funding is in the novel integration of existing philanthropic best practices, intentionally combined for transforming systems. Pando Funding builds upon these proven and leading-edge practices already being deployed, such as: shared visioning, participatory funding, trust-based philanthropy, collective action, adaptive strategies, network and field building, ecosystem mobilization. It does all of this fueled with an awareness of the system—an awareness that a group of people gets to build and adapt, for themselves and with each other, and over time as they intervene in it in powerful ways. There is no set-in-stone blueprint for Pando Funding. It does require us to imagine a different way of being and doing. Maybe you’re already there? Maybe you want to take a few experimental steps towards a more intentional Pando Funding approach? Explore some of the “Could you imagines…” in the table below to see how your philanthropic practices could be different. To Learn More 👉 www.pandofunding.org
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Rachel Sinha shared thisSo cool to see this out in the world - Well done Jess Hackett and the team at The Coalition for Impact! Mapping the #privatewealth #system. This was designed to shine a light on how it works, so it can start to be in better service of #people and #planet. What does it look like? What are the roles within it? What are the invisible patterns and dynamics that keep showing up? #financial #systemschange #mapthesystem
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Rachel Sinha shared thisSo excited to be doing this with my good pals Hayley Butler, MPP and Paul Backman-Levy in a few weeks. STL friends who are curious about #strategy for #systemschange Sign-up!Rachel Sinha shared thisWhat does it mean to consider design through a systems lens? How do we level up our ability to design for system change? Join Rachel Sinha , Paul Backman-Levy , and me at #STLDesignWeek for an interactive workshop digging into specific systems thinking concepts and principles that you can apply directly to your work. Spaces are limited to provide an engaging, high-touch experience, so sign up early!
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Rachel Sinha shared thisI can't say it enough - if you're feeling at all lost, lonely or like you need to feel a sense of possibility right now (?!) then do yourself a big favor and listen to this series of podcasts on relational work. They are such a great reminder of the power of seeking #connection, in all it's messiness and so many inspiring #stories of what it looks like in practice to build programs and #communities that deepen our bonds as humans to do difficult work. #peertopeer #communitybuilding #socialinnovation #onlinecommunityRachel Sinha shared this✨ We’ve reached the final episode of The Relational Podcast. In this closing conversation, host Rachel Sinha is joined by David Jay, author of Relationality: How Moving from Transactional to Transformational Relationships Can Reshape Our Lonely World. Together, they explore how deep listening and meaningful relationships can help us respond to the crises of our time. From his journey founding asexuality.org to building relational ecosystems in movements and workplaces, David shares: 🔹 The power of personal storytelling in shifting cultures 🔹 Why relational invisibility matters — and how to make it visible 🔹 Practical ways to create environments where relationships thrive 🔹 Why letting go of control is key for transformation This episode leaves us with an invitation: to see relationships not as a backdrop, but as the very infrastructure of change. 🎧 Listen to the episode here: https://lnkd.in/eQ6Y2EVx A podcast co-created in community with Avani Parekh, Sonja Betschart, Jane Wei-Skillern, David Jay, Fabian Pfortmüller, Ese Emerhi, Melanie Kahl, Rachel Sinha, Meg Busse, Christine Lai, Sumitra Pasupathy, Georgie Nightingall, Catherine Dempsey, Ana Amrein Esnaola and Lily James Olds during a Wasan Network in partnership with Huddlecraft, Anjali Chandrashekar and Efecto Colibrí. Join us in reshaping social innovation through relationality. #TheRelationalPodcast #Relationality #Relationships #TransformationalChange
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Rachel Sinha shared this💡 Relational work isn’t a side-effect of systems change. It is the system. Walking with my golden doodle Flossie, I’ve been listening to The Relational Podcast — and one line from @Jane Wei-Skillern stopped me in my tracks: “So often you have all these partnerships on paper and they’re toxic and they go nowhere. It might’ve been months or even years of meetings, and what was missing? More often than not, it was the deep trust that relational and clarity in our own respective values that we were aligned and could trust each other..if you don’t have a personal connection you will be doomed to failure right out the gate.” This rung true The Finance Innovation Lab, where people loved to call our work “fluffy.” It wasn’t policy or business models — it was building connections, trust, and shared ways of being. That “fluff” was actually infrastructure. And yet it has been so hard to fund this kind of work. 🌱 That’s why I’m excited about emerging approaches in #systemicinvesting that make the invisible fundable: TransCap Initiative/ Systemic investing : portfolios designed for adaptive, relational impact. The Pando Fund: resourcing the “root system” of trust and connectivity. Dark Matter Labs: measuring systemic health through relational maturity. I share a comparison between these approaches as they emerge. What they share: structure without killing emergence. Discipline that funds relationships as infrastructure (amongst other things). As Indy Johar puts it: “It is not the presence of a unified good that defines a system’s health, but its ability to host diverse expressions of good simultaneously, and maintain coherence amid divergence.” So let's let a thousand flowers bloom as we attempt to build better goevrnance models and new approaches to #systemicinvesting This is some of the most important work of our time: building governance and finance models that enable life, connection, and transformation to flourish. 👉 If you’re experimenting with relational, systemic approaches in finance or governance, I’d love to hear how you’re grappling with it. #SystemsChange #SystemicInvesting #RelationalWork #TrustBasedPhilanthropy #Emergence Jess Daggers, PhD Anna Muoio Robert Ricigliano Indy Johar Dark Matter Labs TransCap Initiative Tracey Robertson Jess Hackett Fabian Pfortmüller David Jay Jane Wei-SkillernFrom “Fluffy” to Fundable: Financing Relational WorkFrom “Fluffy” to Fundable: Financing Relational WorkRachel Sinha
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Rachel Sinha reacted on thisRachel Sinha reacted on this2026 UMSL Research, Creativity, and Innovation Awards: Innovator of the Year Award Congratulations to Claire Wolff, education director for Community Development & Regional Economic Development and director of Creating Whole Communities at UMSL and UM Extension and recipient of the Innovator of the Year Award. Claire leads teams that connect university research and resources with community priorities, advancing leadership, belonging, contribution and vitality across Missouri. Her work centers on building civic muscle to strengthen local capacity for change and cultivating place-based leadership and leveraging lived experiences to address complex challenges. She collaboratively develops neighborhood leadership programs to build civic leadership capacity and is working to expand the reach of the curriculum across national and international geographies including South Africa. Claire’s work is funded by the Missouri Foundation for Health and the James S McDonnell Foundation. #umslproud #umslresearch #umsl University of Missouri-Saint Louis
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Rachel Sinha liked thisToo many Americans are navigating financial systems that were never designed for their realities. SaverLife has already helped more than 780,000 people build savings and financial stability, and their combination of trusted relationships and AI-powered navigation has the potential to reach millions more with the tools they need for lasting economic security. Navigation Technology tools like this can make a real difference in families’ lives. At NextLadder Ventures, we’re proud to support their growth.Rachel Sinha liked thisGiven the fragile and complex financial lives of LMI families and households, we believe everyone deserves access to a personalized path that empowers them to navigate and achieve their financial health goals, and that the best technology puts agency in people's hands. We’re excited to share that SaverLife has received a $1,000,000 investment from NextLadder Ventures to accelerate our Financial Navigator's transition to a fully-personalized, AI-enabled platform. Helping us to deliver adaptive, data-driven financial guidance to every SaverLife member on their unique journey toward financial health. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gr7qtzR9Press release: SaverLife announces $1,000,000 investment from NextLadder Ventures to scale its AI-Powered Financial NavigatorPress release: SaverLife announces $1,000,000 investment from NextLadder Ventures to scale its AI-Powered Financial Navigator
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Rachel Sinha liked this‼️ Excited to announce the launch of the Food and Agriculture Research Mission (FARM) Growing Health Competition at the WashU Bursky School of Public Health ‼️ This new funding opportunity is designed to help move promising food, nutrition, and public health innovations from research into real-world impact - with a focus on strengthening food security, nutrition, and health across the Greater St. Louis region, including rural Missouri and Southern Illinois. We are looking to support bold, interdisciplinary teams working at the intersection of food systems, nutrition technology, agriculture, and public health. Academic researchers, entrepreneurs, startups, industry collaborators, NGOs, and community partners are all encouraged to engage. One winning team will receive up to $1 million in funding over 2–3 years to advance an innovation with strong potential for scalable public health impact. Competitive teams should include: ✅ A WashU faculty partner (required) ✅ A validated or near-validated innovation ✅ A clearly defined customer or target market ✅ A credible pathway to improving food security, nutrition, and health outcomes ✅ Strong external partnerships across industry, community organizations, or NGOs 📅 Key dates: 📍 Informational webinars • May 27, 2026 | 1–2 p.m. CT • June 3, 2026 | 11 a.m.–12 p.m. CT 📍 Pre-proposals due: August 15, 2026 ❓ Questions: FARMgrants@wustl.edu (by June 15, 2026) Lora Iannotti Mark Doyle WashU Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation & Entrepreneurship Confluence Collaborative for Community Engagement WashU In St. Louis For St. Louis Connie Bowen The Yield Lab Institute 39 North BioSTL Donald Danforth Plant Science Center https://lnkd.in/exbYUsHhFARM launches $1 million Growing Health grants program - WashU Bursky School of Public HealthFARM launches $1 million Growing Health grants program - WashU Bursky School of Public Health
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Rachel Sinha liked thisI'm heading to Amsterdam next week for Katapult Future Fest. I will be hosting separate sessions with Dr. Astrid Scholz and the Wealth Hackers Initiative exploring how to hack the wealth system and Joe Hsueh exploring how private wealth can move from stuck to shift (there's a theme!). Other Coalition for Impact members will be represented throughout the event The ImPact, Toniic, Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth, Katapult Foundation, TWIST: Investing for Systems Change. Let me know if you will be there! Kiara Jacoby Tamar Guttmann Evita Chiang Zanuso Adela Danielle DeRose Alison Fort Tharald Nustad
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Rachel Sinha liked thisRachel Sinha liked thisThis past week, I earned my Sustainability Certificate, marking an incredible capstone to my journey within the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative. I think back to webinars I attended during the COVID-19 pandemic, which challenged my narrow concept of sustainability as a synonym for climate solutions. I certainly heard from Sloanies who were focused on advancing climate resilience, like those building circular economy solutions to sanitation and wastewater treatment in Kenya, but I also learned from Sloanies who were, for instance, supporting smallholder farmers in Madhya Pradesh with auditing, operations, and fundraising to provide them and their employees a livable wage. Through these sessions, I encountered a concept that looked beyond just the environment at communities, at livelihoods, and at a system in which humans and nature had critical relationships with each other, whose interactions together could produce vastly different impacts on both local and global scales. My experience in pursuing this Certificate was, bar none, the greatest development opportunity I could have imagined. I started my first week with John Sterman and Jason Jay energizing me into action through the En-ROADs simulator, understanding the core systems dynamics concepts that dictated the different levers of climate action (with special help from my aunt Rachel Sinha), then moved to my S-Lab project where I supported the Falmouth Marine and Environmental Services team to remove nitrogen from local estuaries by designing a shellfish aquaculture program and facilitating coalition-building exercises with key city council stakeholders, and spent the last semester supporting Jason and Ivana Gazibara and Andre Ticoulat at the TransCap Initiative to design a taxonomy for better classifying and coordinating investments within regenerative agriculture practices in my home region of the Midwest. I cannot forget the overwhelming support I received from the Susty Initiative team, particularly Jennifer Graham who not only steered me in my academic experiences, but constantly supported me and Yizhi Hu as the co-presidents of the MIT Impact Investing Initiative this past year. I thank everyone who was part of my journey to receive this certificate and, more importantly, to uncovering a new vantage point on the world around me, particularly on renewable energy strategy and commercialization opportunities. I am grateful for the opportunity, and excited to explore the topics about which I have only just begun to learn!
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Rachel Sinha liked thisCommunity engagement is another way of thinking about community resilience. It's about working together, bridging our divides, and translating ideas effectively to solve a problem for the greater good. How do we measure community engagement? How do we "see a system" of partnerships working together? Here I am again, on the social fabric = everything bandwagon! Climb aboard 👇 🎟️Social Innovation Lab at The University of Kansas
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2wRachel Sinha liked thisWe are better together for a reason. Real community impact is that reason. We know that community engagement depends on cross-sector collaboration: who connects the silos, who reaches the communities that formal systems miss, and whether the work is actually as integrated as it appears on an org chart. Those questions sit at the intersection of network science and community engagement. In a talk to the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award committee, we shared the basics behind network analysis and how to use the findings to bridge the divide between researchers, organizations, and community members. Measure differently, find your influencers and trust brokers, translate across disciplines, strengthen relational capital. Here are the takeaways: 🆒 Collaboration has structure — and structure can be measured. 🎦 Network analysis shows how the system actually works ℹ️ Every network has two types of hidden influencers 🆓 Unmapped influencers are structurally invisible 🆗 Network structure can be measured, tracked, and changed 🆙 Seeing the system is a precondition for strengthening it #community #engagement #network #influence #trust #impact #bettertogether #resilience The University of Kansas Health System #FrontiersCTSI Check out the details here and access the talk. 👇 https://lnkd.in/gjiCyapqSeeing The System of Community Engagement — KU Social Innovation LabSeeing The System of Community Engagement — KU Social Innovation Lab -
Rachel Sinha liked thisRachel Sinha liked thisI’m grateful for all the new connections coming out of the TransCap Initiative Systemic Investing Summit and DC Climate Week — energizing conversations, thoughtful challenges, and a shared sense that we’re in a moment that demands both imagination and coordination. For those I didn’t get to speak with directly, a quick introduction: I design and facilitate strategic retreats, futures visioning sessions, consensus-building processes, and project planning workshops. My work sits at the intersection of strategy and execution—helping teams (departments, organizations, boards, and coalitions) align on a long-term vision and identify the concrete, fundable projects needed to move toward it. A lot of groups already have the right people and the right intentions in the room. The challenge is turning that into clarity, shared direction, and decisions that actually stick. That’s where I come in. If you’re navigating: • Competing priorities that never quite resolve • Big-picture goals that haven’t translated into actionable plans • A need for alignment across stakeholders with different perspectives Send me a DM to schedule a call—I’d love to hear what you’re working on and explore how I can support. And if nothing else, I’m always up for continuing the conversations that started the past couple of weeks —there was no shortage of good ones. — Mari
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Magda Kaczmarska, MFA
Generations United • 2K followers
What becomes possible when personal story, artistic practice, and community leadership are placed in conversation with neuroscience? In the first episode of Season 2 of the Dancing into Brain Health podcast, we’re joined by: * Szewah Chin 秦思华 — communications expert, journalist, and Board Chair of DanceStream Projects * Hilary Brown-Istrefi — dancer, choreographer, teaching artist, and DIBH podcast editor Together, they reflect on the urgent need for more spaces that intentionally bridge the arts, neuroscience, and community practice — not as parallel efforts, but as shared pathways toward belonging, meaning, and brain health. This conversation invites us to imagine what’s next, and to consider what dialogues are still missing as we work toward more inclusive and holistic approaches to brain health. 🎧 Listen to the full episode on Spotify and Apple Podcasts (link in comments). What questions or conversations would you like to see explored this season? #ArtsAndNeuroscience #DanceForBrainHealth #CommunityHealth #CreativeAging #LivedExperience #ArtsAdvocacy #HealthInnovation #DementiaAdvocacy #InterdisciplinaryDialogue
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Michael Hanf
iksait Ventures • 6K followers
🌍 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐰𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐱𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝? And if they’re designed, then surely we can redesign them. In the latest episode of the Future of Sustainability podcast, I’m joined by Gary A. Bolles, Chair for the Future of Work at Singularity University and author of The Next Rules of Work. Gary doesn’t just track trends, he challenges the operating systems of society and dares us to co-create better ones. We explore: 🔁 How to rethink work, learning, and economic models for a sustainable future 🧠 Why adaptability, curiosity, and empathy are the true superpowers of the 21st century 🤖 How AI-powered learning companions could transform education 🌱 Why purpose-driven systems and inclusive capitalism offer a better path forward 👩🌾 And why John Deere might want to hire someone obsessed with tractors, satellites, and soil This is a powerful conversation about redesigning the future before the next crisis forces our hand. 🎧 Listen to the episode 👇 #FutureOfSustainability #FutureOfWork #SystemsThinking #Sustainability #Regeneration #InclusiveCapitalism #Leadership #Foresight #AI #Education #Podcast
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Kevin Karaca FRSA
The House Outside • 3K followers
12 ways you can use storytelling to create positive change in the world. No. 2 The Public Narrative Framework by Marshall Ganz I first came across this framework in the fantastic book, Get Together, by Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh & Kai Elmer Sotto. As soon as I heard (I was listening) them talk about the three stories you can use to unite a community around a cause, I had to learn more. Marshall Ganz is no lightweight. He's a longtime community organiser and Harvard Kennedy School professor. Moreover, Marshall played a key role in designing Barack Obama’s 2008 grassroots field strategy. In short: he knows his sh*t. Anyway, enough of the background, let's dive into it. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 A simple but powerful structure made up of three parts, told in this order: 1️⃣ Story of Self Why you are called to act. This is about sharing the values and experiences that have shaped you — making your motivation relatable and real. It answers: Why am I here? Why do I care? 2️⃣ Story of Us Why we are called to act. This connects your personal story to the shared values, experiences, or challenges of a community, organisation, or movement. It answers: Why are we here together? What do we share? 3️⃣ Story of Now Why we must act urgently. This lays out the current challenge, the stakes, and the opportunity — ending with a clear call to action. It answers: Why must we act now? What is at risk if we don’t? When done well, these stories inform AND rally people. Because they answer the three big questions every audience is asking: Who are you? Why does this matter? And why now? Give it a go. — Hi, I'm Kevin Karaca For the first 12 days of December, I'm sharing different ways you can use storytelling to create positive change in the world. Follow me for more.
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Elizabeth Oldfield
Hodder & Stoughton • 3K followers
"“Thinking,” says Munthe, “is a contact sport.” Perhaps the most important takeaway is that our fundamental values have little to nothing to do with choice, and that differences in belief generally follow from these values. Munthe argues that we live in a world of value pluralism, in which no one set of values works for all people, at all times. Liberalism, for example, works well in a prosperous, stable society but in times of crisis or upheaval, conservatism can provide much-needed stability. The world needs a diversity of values so that all can be drawn on when needed, so we ought to see those with whom we disagree politically as allies, not enemies. Munthe’s book turns out to be not just a fascinating survey of why we think what we think. It is a much-needed manifesto for how we should deal with difference in a polarised age."
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Niko Canner
Incandescent • 8K followers
Most organizations aren’t “majoring” in AI and shouldn’t be. They were built for a different mission. Michael Kubzansky's recent essay offers a powerful frame: if you major in something else, you should declare a serious minor in AI. To minor seriously in AI is to put your institution in conversation with what AI can achieve today and might achieve tomorrow, on every dimension of the institution’s operation: how people work and what future they are working toward; how the organization engages and learns alongside others in its ecosystem; how the organization stewards and deploys its capital, its talent and its voice. As I’ve wrestled with what this means in practice, I’ve written this piece, which imagines in detail what a minor could look like for an endowed foundation. Perhaps this will feel like a quirky example. An endowed foundation can persist in approximately its current form for decades while the world it was built to act on changes beyond recognition. That durability makes visionary philanthropy possible, and makes it difficult to avoid a widening gap between the vision to which a foundation has committed and its powers to deliver on that vision. Businesses face survival risk; foundations face the risk of quiet futility. My post: https://lnkd.in/g--NqB4m Mike’s essay: https://lnkd.in/gJjduPdW #AI #Leadership #Philanthropy
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Tigrilla Gardenia Nature-Inspired Mentor and Coach
Tigrilla Gardenia • 2K followers
From noise levels to relational energy, every element matters in trauma-informed design. Here’s how I create spaces that support neurodivergent and highly sensitive lives. In Episode 109 of the ReConnect with Plant Wisdom Podcast, I'm joined by Stephanie Lee Jackson, founder of @PracticalSanctuary (Sensory Interior Design) as we explore how trauma-informed design can transform our living spaces into sanctuaries that support our nervous systems and cater to neurodivergent needs. Watch/Listen to the episode HERE 👉 https://lnkd.in/dFQB9sdT Topics Covered about NeuroDivergent Interior Design ➡️ Why designing for your nervous system is more than a luxury—it’s a necessity. ➡️ The difference between biophilic trends and truly supportive space design. ➡️ How plants and lighting help regulate neurodivergent bodies. ➡️ The role of personalization in creating healing environments for yourself and others. sensory design,neurodivergent sanctuary,nervous system regulation,trauma informed design,highly sensitive people,biophilic design,natural interior design,plant based healing,designing for creativity,eco conscious business,practical sanctuary,interior design for wellbeing,healing environments,plant inspired space,nature connection,self regulation tools,sacred space design,home nervous system reset,conscious interior design,spaces for neurodivergent people
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Michael Corso
disABLEDperson Inc. • 4K followers
In today's rapidly evolving labor market, the "entry-level" role is undergoing a fundamental transformation. A recent analysis from The Economist explores whether AI is a true threat to the first rung of the career ladder. Here are the key takeaways: The Vanishing Rung Traditional entry-level tasks—such as data entry, basic coding, and initial research—are exactly what generative AI does best. As these tasks are automated, the "bread and butter" work usually reserved for new graduates is shrinking, leading to a noticeable decline in entry-level postings. The "Experience" Paradox With AI handling the basics, employers are raising the bar for what qualifies as "entry-level." New hires are increasingly expected to arrive with the ability to manage AI tools and perform higher-level analysis, effectively moving the goalposts for recent graduates. Human Skills Are the New Premium While AI can draft a report or write code, it lacks institutional memory, complex judgment, and emotional intelligence. The value is shifting away from technical "doing" toward "thinking"—prioritizing skills like ethics, critical framework application, and complex problem-solving. A Structural Shift This isn't just a temporary dip; it's a structural change in how companies develop talent. The traditional "apprenticeship" model, where you learn by doing low-level tasks, is being disrupted. Organizations must now find new ways to train the next generation of leaders when the bottom rungs of the ladder are automated. The Bottom Line AI isn't necessarily a "job killer" for the young, but it is a "task killer." Success for the next generation of workers will depend on their ability to act as "AI orchestrators" rather than just task executors. #disability #jobs disABLEDperson.com
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Elizabeth Standaert
The Global Access Files • 253 followers
A lot of disability inclusion efforts fail because the funding isn’t structured to last. Grants get pilots off the ground. But without layered capital, cultural alignment, and flexibility, even the best initiatives collapse when they try to scale. This week’s Strategic Insight Brief looks at why structuring capital is the real strategy behind sustainable inclusion — and how leaders can design financing that holds up under pressure. Read here: https://lnkd.in/guiE6QvF #Disability #Strategy #Impact #Finance #Inclusion
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Michelle Risinger
Rising Solutions Consulting • 4K followers
As an innovation strategist I was thrilled to see the latest Initiative Trends from the Global Wellness Institute. Because if you’re still positioning “stress reduction” at your company, you’re already behind. The latest Global Wellness trends point to something much bigger: Wellness is shifting from individual programs to system-level design. That looks like: Nervous system regulation Functional longevity Built environments Social connection Wellbeing is becoming infrastructure. And yet almost no one is asking: How is the workday itself designed? We’re still layering solutions on top of schedules that don’t work. The future isn’t more wellness programs, it’s redesigning how work actually happens. Sean Elliott
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Doug Belshaw
Dynamic Skillset Ltd • 3K followers
The decline in reading and rise of authoritarianism seem linked, but blaming 'screens' misses the real problem: we've stripped away the infrastructure (libraries, youth clubs, public spaces) where reading communities are built. Democracy needs multiple forms of literacy, not just books. Read my lastest post on why systemic literacy matters more than mourning the printed page. https://lnkd.in/eKPFczMc
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Layla Hosseini-Gerami
Ignota Labs • 4K followers
ICYMI: Adding to the flurry of activity coming out of Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Renaissance Philanthropy has put out a request for proposals for AI-for-Science datasets. This crowdsourcing of dataset proposals is giving the people actually doing the science a chance to say what matters. Too often, funding is top-down or locked into whatever’s “trendy,” and some of the most useful datasets never get built. High-quality datasets are the real bottleneck in AI-driven science, and they must be tailored for the specific application in mind. We can debate architectures all day, but without relevant, well-curated data, even the best models go nowhere. This was exemplified in the recent Virtual Cell Challenge, where simple regression models performed at the same level as complex and computationally intensive foundation models - and the most relevant datasets in the context of the ultimate application had the biggest impact on performance vs. larger, broader datasets - see https://lnkd.in/eJufNV4G from the team at Turbine. If you’ve got an idea for a dataset that could actually move the needle in biology, chemistry, materials, or energy, this is the kind of opportunity that could make it happen! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eEWzmriG
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Sharon L Simmons
SYGNL Technologies • 1K followers
WHO’S HOLDING THE MIC ON INNOVATION? 🎤 For too long, innovation has been dictated to us. Tools built elsewhere, dropped into the Global South, without our voices shaping the design. But innovation without equity isn’t innovation at all. It’s extraction. Spoiler: it better not just be the same old voices. It’s time for Africa + the Caribbean to grab the mic and remix the future. Because if innovation isn’t shaped by us — it’s not really innovation, it’s just tech tourism. I don’t believe in “imported futures.” I believe in futures that we build with our own hands, guided by our own realities. Africa and the Caribbean aren’t passive players in AI. We are makers. We are shapers. We are the voice. #Africa #Caribbean #GlobalSouth #AI #Equity #Innovation # SuperShay
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Crystal Petry
Crystal Petry Consulting • 746 followers
Strategic grantmaking outperforms form-filling. A carousel contrasting piecemeal submissions with a strategic grant plan can show funders measurable program outcomes, repeatable processes, and real proof points — like Crystal Petry Consulting’s tailored grant solutions and training. That combination builds funder confidence, demonstrates impact, and creates long-term sustainability by turning fundraising into a scalable, repeatable practice. Want to move from one-off asks to a confident strategy? Learn how: https://wix.to/Lnw1TB6 #GrantStrategy #Fundraising #NonprofitLeadership
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Chris West
Concordis International • 4K followers
(The rolling of eyes is deserved - if this is all there is to the role) A recent WSJ article highlighted the sudden expansion of 'Head of Storytelling' roles. My heart sank. I consulted to the CEO and Head of Storytelling at Alphabet's 'moonshot factory' - and what they saw as the value-add of the role is vastly different to what the WSJ is reporting. The WSJ reports on the role being about someone who can write blogs, scripts ... anything longer than a short social media post, basically. No wonder they're observing people rolling their eyes at the job's fancy title. What the leaders at Alphabet's moonshot factory understood was something much more insightful and powerful. When you're changing the world, you have to create a whole new architecture of belief systems. In fact, you're building - the origin myth - the conflict in the world today that demands something must be done - a path to resolving the conflict Then, you're codifying the values that will take the organisation there, you're creating a judgement system for the world to look at what you're doing, you're creating the mythology that binds all this together into something that has integrity. This is nothing short of creating the mental operation model of the organisation. It aligns management and teams with the vision, reducing the number of times decisions have to be escalated; it aligns new hires with the vision; it is a decision framework for what we do next. It's a real role that adds huge value: I did something like this for a globally famous brand and was delighted to hear 10 years later they were still using the same decision architecture across product, hires, location choices...basically everything - massively increasing speed and agility and reducing decision escalations. The people you hire for this role aren't 10+ year writers with commercial acumen. They're a rare, very rare mix of systems thinking, high empathy levels, interdisciplinary curiosity, high impact diplomacy, mythology expertise and language creation. And even above and beyond this role, there's a need in highly complex organisations for something like an Architect of Operating Logic, codifying how the vision cascades through the company and the mental models and decision frameworks you need. Here's the WSJ article: https://lnkd.in/eGByT3TF Thoughts?
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