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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Feb 2025
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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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Sep 2024
When it’s time to wind down or pivot
Had a great run with your community of practice / network? Is the momentum diminishing? Could it be time to pivot or wind down? Introduction: Over the past decade [...]
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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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Sep 2023
Internationalizing your Board and Committees
As you move along an ‘internationalization spectrum’ there are key junctures and considerations to determine what decisions to make. As I wrote in “Going Global for the Greater Good” a [...]
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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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Feb 2023
Peer learning
As a former executive director, I have always seen the value of peer support and understand how hard it can be to make time for in the day to day [...]
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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 [...]