When it comes to people’s approaches to collaboration, there seem to be three general schools of thought: The “Collaboration-is-a-giant-m...

Presented in partnership with Marta Ceroni from The Donella Meadows Project at the Academy for Systems Change. ​ At a time so deeply...

A virtual panel discussion on "Social Labs and Collaborative Approaches to Systems Change" with Russ Gaskin of CoCreative, Stephanie...

If you're leading systems change work, you will no doubt experience fear, conflict, resistance, and even failure at some point along your...

Moving your meetings and convenings online? We often assume that online meetings mean disengagement and boredom but some of our most...

Ever heard of "use of self"? It's the idea that we can use ourselves as powerful instruments of change in service of a greater good. But...

A story-based case study on effective virtual collaboration.

A clear and powerful shared intent is key to the success of any collaboration. In this session, Russ Gaskin and Sharon Simms explored how...

Collaborative Innovation is our process model and an integrated set of concrete tools to effectively lead powerful change with...

Do you wish you had a way to transform stuck-ness and confusion into innovation and engagement? How can you help people "see together" so...

This session archive is from Ashoka's Series on New Leadership and was recorded in May, 2019.

We don't strive to be different in our approach to collaboration, yet people are often surprised by the seemingly counterintuitive...

Have you ever been sitting in a meeting and you think that the group is really starting to realize something that they hadn’t understood...

Checking Back is about occasionally returning to "upstream" parts of our work to ensure that our current activities are aligned with our...

Creative Tensions are natural features of collaboration. They appear anytime people try to work together—and the more complex and...

Innovation is often perceived as a neat and orderly process, but it’s actually messy and unpredictable, and the desire for it to be...

People often assume that work needs to happen in a linear, sequential way or that everyone needs have a say in all parts of the work....

We spiral all the time at CoCreative. No, that doesn’t mean we’re losing it, or that we're stressed out. It means we are constantly...

We turn difficult underlying tensions and conflict into resources for deep collaboration and innovation. Watch this keynote at the 2012...

[Here for the Roadmap? Download it here.] On a rainy spring day last April, I was sitting at my desk having an intense phone conversation...