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Make the World

Eugene Eric Kimby Eugene Eric Kim

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. [...]

Invoking the Hero’s Journey

Kristin Cobbleby Kristin Cobble

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. [...]

Bringing Human Back

Rebecca Petzelby Rebecca Petzel

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 [...]

Slowing Down While Keeping Up

Rebecca Petzelby Rebecca Petzel

It’s been more than a few weeks since our last post here at Groupaya, which should give you a small insight into how busy we’ve been. Given this current state of affairs, I was thrilled to discover that my dear friend and coach, Meredith Walters, was offering her first workshop through Skillshare entitled, “Slowing Down While Keeping Up.” Without [...]

Talk vs Action

Eugene Eric Kimby Eugene Eric Kim

Last September, we designed and facilitated a kick-off in Zurich for an organizational change initiative within a global corporate IT division. The meeting was large (200 leaders participating) and complex (both logistically and content-wise), one of the hardest with which I’ve ever been involved. It succeeded because our design was strong, Kristin’s facilitation was skillful, [...]