Questions past clients have hired us to help them answer:
How do we leverage the collective wisdom of our community?
How do we make our processes inclusive, fast, and effective?
How do we get better at learning from each other?
How do we shift our partnerships with others from "accidental adversaries" to "intentional allies"?
How do we encourage good leaders of individual functions to become great leaders of the whole organization?
We have over three decades of combined experience helping Fortune 500 companies, startups, nonprofits, foundations, government agencies, and grassroots movements solve meaningful, wicked problems collaboratively. Now we're aiming even higher. We want to work on bigger, harder challenges, share our learnings and practices openly and broadly, and foster a community of high-performing practitioners.
Last night, I was winding down after a very long day, when I saw these wonderful words from my friend Rachel Weidinger fill up my Twitter stream. Here’s to my worldmaking friends and friends-to-be! [View the story "Make the World" on Storify] Make the World Inspirational words from my friend and fellow worldmaker, Rachel Weidinger. [...]
Last year, Groupaya worked with a Fortune 500 company to understand how, in one exceptional project, they managed to “crack the code” on global collaboration, figuring out typical challenges such as how to deal with the biology of different time zones, how to work across cultural differences, and how to deal with local/global decision-making tensions. [...]
I had the privilege of spending the afternoon with Lain Shakespeare. Lain is not only my favorite descendant of famed storytellers Joel Chandler Harris and Shakespeare, he’s also my favorite MailChimp employee. He’s spent the past year serving as an ambassador between MailChimp and social change organizations. And he’s loved every second of it. I [...]