Month: July 2015

Demystifying Rapid Innovation with Steve Ma

For the Future Forward Innovation Challenge, we were thrilled to bring together a stellar group of innovative folks from diverse backgrounds, including Steve Ma of Accelerate Change. I caught up with Steve earlier this month to talk about his experience at the workshop. AW: You’ve been a changemaker for two-plus decades—founded Live Green, a social enterprise focused on building a…

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Collaboration Muscles & Mindsets: How Did We Do?

As our Future Forward participants continue to delve deeply into this current experiment phase, I wanted to summarize what happened in the four months of preparation leading up to these experiments. As I wrote earlier this year, from February through May 2015, I led our participants through a program called Collaboration Muscles & Mindsets. From February through May 2015, our…

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Diving Into Experimentation

With the fourth of July holidays approaching, summer is here, and we’re diving head first into the  experimentation phase of  Future Forward. This experimentation phase builds off the stimulating conversations and the plethora of ideas developed during our May 15th Innovation Challenge kick-off, where our Future Forward team and guests drew on the previous three month’s exploration into muscles and mindsets…

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