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Collaborative Leadership: A Practical Toolkit

Friday, April 16, 2010

Session Description

How do you build an organisation in which everyone is a leader and has the resources and tools to drive change from within? In what ways can you increase organisational effectiveness and improve professional culture while maintaining an entrepreneurial environment? Participants in this hands-on workshop will work together to develop a framework for understanding what it takes to build an institution that values and supports changemakers, and then use what they have learned to collaboratively shape and refine their own organisational strategies.

 

Time & Location

Time:
11:00 - 12:30, Friday, April 16, 2010 BST
Speakers
  • Speaker
    Founder & President, mongabay.com
    Rhett founded Mongabay.com, a leading conservation and environmental news service, in 1999. Today Rhett serves as editor-in-chief of the web site as well as president of Mongabay.org, Mongabay's non-profit arm. Rhett is also co-founder of Tropical Conservation Science, an open-access academic journal that aims to provide opportunities for scientists in developing countries to publish their research; the Tropical Forest Network, a social network in the San Francisco Bay Area; and Mongabay.co.id, a leading Indonesian-language environmental news service. Rhett has advised a wide range of organizations, including governments, multilateral development agencies, academic institutions, foundations, and private sector entities. He has been an information source for many mainstream media outlets and served as forest advisor to the Skoll Foundation from 2010 to 2012. Rhett's work has been published outside of his web sites, including magazines, newspapers, online media, and academic journals. His photos have appeared in hundreds of publications. In 2014, Rhett became the first journalist to win the Parker/Gentry Award, a conservation prize given annually by the Field Museum in Chicago.
  • Speaker
    Founder, Context Partners
    Charlie is the founder of Context Partners and was the former Executive Director of Ashoka’s Changemakers (www.changemakers.com), an online community that open sources innovative solutions to entrenched problems worldwide and builds communities of action to support them. Charlie specialises in open innovation and managing online problem solving communities. He has worked on environmental issues related to climate change, tourism, and innovations for the financial management of national parks in the U.S. and Jamaica. He has a business degree from Virginia Tech and MB A from the University of Denver.