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Reflection on Using AI to Augment Systems Change Practices
Engaging with the session, Using AI to Augment Systems Change Practices, offered a pause and reflect opportunity to my day-to-day work as a researcher in philanthropy. Like many of us in this space, I enter this work driven by deep personal commitments to equity, justice, and human-centered sensing and want to tackle complex social problems at their root.
Required or Desired? Ending the Debate on Making Learning a Requirement
Every learning leader eventually hears the same question: "Should we make learning mandatory?"
It's a fair question.
If people don't attend learning sessions, should leaders require participation? Should attendance be tied to performance? Should calendars simply be blocked and everyone told to show up? After all, learning matters. So shouldn't it be required?
How the James Irvine Foundation Turned Sensemaking into an Investigation (And Why Their Staff Loved It)
When organizations gather to make sense of data, something predictable often happens. Someone presents a deck. People politely nod. A few insights surface. Then everyone returns to work.
The James Irvine Foundation wondered: What if sensemaking could feel like a challenging and fun game?
Elevate Your Theory of Change Workshop with Visual Facilitation and Learning Experience Design
Embarking on the journey of designing a theory of change for your team or organization but feeling a bit lost? Fear not, for we've discovered a winning formula that turns the process into pure magic: combining established theory of change processes with visual facilitation and learning experience design.