Our Leadership, Capacity, and Capability Building

This work includes:

• Shifting culture, mindset, and approach to one of partnership, co-design, and co-production.
• Leadership will, investment, and support of the transformative work, including removing barriers and facilitating involvement across the institution
• Engaging students as leaders in the transformation.
• Developing trans-disciplinary collaborations and cross-sector partnerships of individuals, institutions of higher education, and organizations
• Establishing a “sharing economy” for intercommunity spread, willingness to help each other succeed
• Integrating peer-to-peer support systems
• Cultivating more leadership by increasing agency for change across diverse individuals
• Cultivating people’s motivation, skills, and capacity for action and leadership
• Createingconditions that make it likely someone will engage in further action and leadership (sense of community, build relationships, give people responsibility, and equip people with the skills and motivations they need to become leaders)

This work includes:

• Recognizing and leveraging the interconnectedness within the system
• Developing and prioritizing ideas and innovations from the most diverse group possible
• Everyone leading and owning the process of creating equity
• Testing policy, environmental, and programmatic changes that have the potential to disrupt systems perpetuating the status quo
• Prioritizing the unlocking of untapped potential in people and organizations as a pathway to abundance
• Availability of intrinsic (will for change, relationships) and extrinsic (financial, in-kind) resources needed to maintain, spread, and scale changes

This work includes:

• Using stories and experience to understand the experience of people affected by a change 
• Developing aims, drivers, and measures, and running tests of changes; tracking data over time using control charts
• Making implementation easier, more effective, and more joyful
• Building on strengths
• Intentional methods to scale up
• Using data to identify those who may not be thriving; using stories to map systems that perpetuate inequity
• Identifying and spreading potentially replicable bright spots
• Facilitate an ongoing, iterative process of transformation