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Marquee Projects

I am engaged in a wildly diverse set of initiatives. Just how I like it. These include but are not limited to:

Transforming business operations and customer relationships Latin America, Canada, the US and Europe
Designing "Water Week" with Liberating Structures for the World Bank's Global Water Practice.
Assisting the United Nations effort to enhance knowledge management as they foster "decent work" all over the world (video below)
Melding design thinking and Liberating Structures to shape the future of healthcare with the Innovation Learning Network (with large health systems in the US & UK)
Co-designing national and regional initiatives to transform the future of nursing (video below)
Working to create a recovery-focused transformation in the Texas mental health system
Guiding a variety of academic reform efforts in higher education
Helping the Restorative Justice movement grow in Colorado and beyond (video below)
Assisting the Miami-Dade Child Welfare community develop better coordination plus a more positive and engaging culture
Supporting the growth of health information exchange across the US

Liberating more innovation across scales @ NASA with scientists, engineers, and innovators

Launching more innovation across multiple departments in the Yukon government
Preventing the spread of “superbugs” and other safety challenges in the US and Canada
Liberating "uplifting service" at the Seattle Center

Each group of people put Liberating Structures into action in a unique way. Take a look at the Field Stories.

An immersion workshop series in Seattle has sparked a variety of new projects and initiatives.

LS are effective in all four levels. Below, check out a big project (a summit for 250 people) that helped advance the Restorative Justice movement. With a one day workhsop and phone ocaching, Liberating Structures were used by community leaders to design and facilitate this 3-day confab in Colorado. Self-organization in action!

2012 CO RJ Summit Video from LCJP on Vimeo.

Voices and Visions community-wide health gathering @ the Salish Kootenai College in Montana. Sponsored by the Headwaters Foundations and co-designed with Aspen Labs.

LS were used to design a RWJ Summit for the Transformation of Nursing. Keith as the lead consultant and designer with nurse leaders from across the US.

For the United Nations ITC-ILO, Henri and Keith offered a Liberating Structures immersion workshop and follow-up consulting sessions. (The Centre is in Turin Italy.) The focus was how to organize for promoting decent work and sustainable development around the world.

Scenes from the 2012-2013 Seattle workshop series. Over 300 people joined in from 5 continents.

Working with 4-H youth to design and lead healthy community forums. The project was named Teens Take On Health.

I am happy to talk with you by phone or Skype.

On short notice, I can be available for a 30-minute call. I have experience helping people get started and spread Liberating Structures in many settings and circumstances.

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