Seth Kahan

A Week in Silicon Valley

Last Monday I flew to Silicon Valley where I spent 3 days with my good friend, Robbie Baxter. Robbie is a membership guru – she wrote The Membership Economy, which has been the #1 Amazon bestseller in 6 different categories! Robbie introduced me to a number of super smart colleagues in a great variety of […]

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Seth Kahan interviews Jeff Cobb, Lifelong Learning expert

Jeff Cobb has distinguished himself as the premier thought-leader on lifelong learning with a specialty helping organizations create and market learning programs that deliver unparalleled value to their customers while at the same time generating valuable revenue. I am a faculty member at his upcoming conference: The Leading Learning Symposium – October 27-28, 2015 –

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Living Cities

Founded in 1991, Living Cities harnesses the collective power of 22 of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions to build a new type of urban practice that gets dramatically better results for low-income people, faster. Check out their free e-course, The Why and How of Working with Communities through Collective Impact

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Child Obesity 180

Child Obesity 180 is experts and leaders from diverse disciplines coming together, generating urgency, and finding solutions to the childhood obesity epidemic. They were one of the efforts demonstrating powerful success that was studied to develop the Collective Impact method. Check out their great 1½ minute video.

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John Kania

The concept of collective impact was first articulated in the 2011 Stanford Social Innovation Review article, Collective Impact, written by John Kania. Kania’s publications are a treasure trove of articles on systems leadership and collective impact. See the list on his company website. You will have to scroll down on this page.

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Trip of a Lifetime

My son, Gabe, and I hit the trail over the last two weeks for the Pacific NorthWest. It was our annual sojourn. I was conscious that next year will likely be his last summer at home before he is off to college. In that sense it was the trip of a lifetime. Of course, in

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