Award winning Sir Ken Robinson has presented informative and groundbreaking speeches on Changing Paradigms in Education. The RSA has produced an animated version of highlights of this presentation. Here it is!

The Teachers College of Columbia University was the first and largest graduate school of education in the United States and is perennially ranked among the nation’s best. With financial support from the Wallace Foundation, the Teachers College engaged in research relating to collective engagement around education reform.  The report describes development in the new generation of cross-sector collaborations for education and presents findings from a scan of initiatives across the United States. In this report, Collective Impact, LLC is identified as the first entity to coin the term "Collective Impact" in the early 2000's (page 6, footnote 7). This is an instructive example of how cross-sector collaborations have been bubbling up for several decades. Read the article by clicking here!

Community Design Innovations is our signature "Collective Impact" service used for facilitating cross-sector community or system development and improvement.  It is a promising practice for leading teams or communities of geographic location and/or common purpose through a holistic and integrated planning process.
           
Community Design Innovations is a model that engages diverse stakeholders from various disciplines and sectors in comprehensive outcome-based planning. Community Design Innovations increases participants' capacity to work collaboratively in implementing development strategies, solutions, and projects that improve communities and the quality of life of its residents.

Visioning is the first step in a goal-setting or planning process. While mission statements guide an organization or community in its day-to-day operations, visions provide a sense of direction for the long term - the means to the future. Learn More!

More and more, innovation is springing not from particular industries or disciplines, but rather across them, says Frans Johansson, author of The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts & Cultures. "When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary new ideas."

See the Prime Time Morning interview of Frans Johansson about The Medici Effect.

Described as “a visionary thinker with a rare intellect,” unshakable optimist Simon Sinek teaches leaders and organizations how to inspire people.  'People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe.  There are only two was to influence human behavior; you can manipulate it or you can inspire it. "Why" is your purpose, it is your reason for doing what you do. It drives behavior. This is where "gut" decisions came from. Click here to to view the TED talk short edition of Start with Why!

Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination. Collective Impact is not only the name of our consulting firm, but is also our guiding principle and approach that has directed how we interact, perform, and succeed with our partners over the past almost two decades.  The "Collective Impact" approach is highlighted in the article titled "Collective Impact" in the Winter 2011 Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Manuel Lima senior UX design lead at Microsoft Bing, explores the power of network visualization to help navigate our complex modern world. Taken from a lecture given by Manuel Lima as part of the RSAs free public events program. Watch it here!