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Live. Learn. Repeat.‘Be the Change’ and the Embodiment of Our Values and Visions | S2, E4In season 2 of “Live. Learn. Repeat.” we explore the concept of change from all sides. Hosted by Greg Klimovitz, Stacy Williams-Duncan, Hannah Graham, Sarah Lawing, and Nia McKenney. Learn …2024-02-0600 minLive. Learn. Repeat.‘You’ve Changed’ and the Growth of Leaders & Communities | S2, E3In season 2 of “Live. Learn. Repeat.” we explore the concept of change from all sides. Hosted by Greg Klimovitz, Stacy Williams-Duncan, Hannah Graham, Sarah Lawing, and Nia McKenney. Learn …2024-01-3000 minLive. Learn. Repeat.‘No Fear’ and Other Terrible Tropes in Times of Change | S2, E2In season 2 of “Live. Learn. Repeat.” we explore the concept of change from all sides. Hosted by Greg Klimovitz, Stacy Williams-Duncan, Hannah Graham, Sarah Lawing, and Nia McKenney. Learn …2024-01-2300 minLive. Learn. Repeat.“New Year, New Me” and Better Ways to Navigate Change | S2, E1In season 2 of “Live. Learn. Repeat.” we explore the concept of change from all sides. Hosted by Greg Klimovitz, Stacy Williams-Duncan, Hannah Graham, Sarah Lawing, and Nia McKenney. Learn …2024-01-1700 minLive. Learn. Repeat.Compassionate Honesty is the Best Policy | S1, E4In Season 1 of our podcast “Live. Learn. Repeat.” we explore the values that ground and guide the work of the Learning Forte team. Hosted by Greg Klimovitz, Stacy Williams-Duncan, …2023-12-1400 minLive. Learn. Repeat.Strategic Imagination and How a Dream Can Be a Dream Come True | S1, E3In Season 1 of our podcast “Live. Learn. Repeat.” we explore the values that ground and guide the work of the Learning Forte team. Hosted by Greg Klimovitz, Stacy Williams-Duncan, …2023-12-0700 min
Strategic Imagination SandboxEpisode 7.3: Assessment and Feedback Communication and CollaborationWelcome back to the Strategic Imagination Sandbox, hosted by Learning Forte! We return for the final portion of episode 7, with Stacy Williams-Duncan and our guests, Haley Bankey and Alicia Hager, as we talk about Assessment and Feedback Communication and CollaborationGuest Bios:The Rev. Alicia Hager is the Communications & Community Curator for The Gathering of Leaders and the Assistant Rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Holland, MI. When not communicating, curating, or priesting, Alicia loves spending time with her family, traveling, and all things feline. Haley Ba...2023-09-1010 minStrategic Imagination SandboxEpisode 7.2: Clear Objectives Lead to Effective Collaboration in ChangeWelcome back to the Strategic Imagination Sandbox, hosted by Learning Forte! We return for part two of episode 7 with Stacy Williams-Duncan and our guests, Haley Bankey and Alicia Hager, as we talk about "Clear Objectives Lead to Effective Collaboration in Change."Guest Bios:The Rev. Alicia Hager is the Communications & Community Curator for The Gathering of Leaders and the Assistant Rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Holland, MI. When not communicating, curating, or priesting, Alicia loves spending time with her family, traveling, and all things feline. H...2023-09-0314 minStrategic Imagination SandboxEpisode 7.1: Intentional Partnerships through Clear ObjectivesWelcome to the Strategic Imagination Sandbox hosted by Learning Forte! We are eager to dive into episode seven and communicating with clarity to invite partnership and sustain energy. This episode comes as the final episode of the final movement of the Sandbox. Unreal we are here already. This month’s topic is one of our favorites. Communication and collaboration go hand in hand. One supports the other and back again. They remind leaders not only that our work is not a siloed venture, but also that it requires intentionality- even practice. This month, in addition to Sta...2023-08-2835 minStrategic Imagination SandboxEpisode 6.3: Formative and Summative Assessment for Long Term ImpactWelcome back to the Strategic Imagination Sandbox, hosted by Learning Forte! We return for the final portion of episode 6, with Stacy Williams-Duncan and our guest, Keith Anderson. This episode hinges on how formative and summative assessment are vital for both near term actions and long term impact. Our guest, The Rev. Keith Anderson, is a pastor ordained in the ELCA. He serves as the pastor at Upper Dublin Lutheran Church in Ambler, Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Digital Cathedral: Networked Ministry in a Wireless World (Morehouse, 2015) and co-author with Elizabeth Drescher of Click2...2023-08-1813 minStrategic Imagination SandboxEpisode 6.2: Values Alignment, Collaboration, and Sustainable ImpactWelcome back to the Strategic Imagination Sandbox, hosted by Learning Forte! We return for part two of episode 6, with Stacy Williams-Duncan and our guest, Keith Anderson. The Rev. Keith Anderson is a pastor ordained in the ELCA. He serves as the pastor at Upper Dublin Lutheran Church in Ambler, Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Digital Cathedral: Networked Ministry in a Wireless World (Morehouse, 2015) and co-author with Elizabeth Drescher of Click2Save Reboot: The Digital Ministry Bible (Church Publishing, 2018), the second edition of their popular book.Keith was a pioneer in d...2023-07-3026 minStrategic Imagination SandboxEpisode 6.1: Focusing on near-term actions to generate long-term impactWelcome to the Strategic Imagination Sandbox hosted by Learning Forte!We are eager to dive into episode six and focusing on near-term actions to generate long-term impact. This episode comes as the first episode of the final movement 3 of the Sandbox, where we turn our attention to a clarity of objectives and messaging that can sustain collaboration and community vital to our hybrid vocations. This month, in addition to Stacy Williams Duncan and Greg Klimovitz, we are grateful our guest is someone who knows quite a bit about focused efforts vital for collaboration, someone both Stacy and I...2023-07-1835 minStrategic Imagination SandboxEpisode 5.3: RISE as Self-Assessment and Personal FeedbackWe return for the final portion of episode 5, with Stacy Williams-Duncan and our guest, Emily Wray. The concluding chapter of each episode hinges on assessment and evaluation of our work and leadership. Emily Wray is the founder of Make Sense Media, an award-winning Instructional Designer at Full Sail University and a Course Director in their Media Communications Bachelor of Science program.Outside the classroom, Emily is engaged in a number of award-winning digital storytelling projects for reflection and therapeutic processing, for social justice, and for career development. Emily is civically engaged with several o...2023-06-1811 minStrategic Imagination SandboxEpisode 5.1: Planning for Feedback to Enable Responsive and Progressive IterationWe are eager to dive into episode five as we focus on planning for feedback to enable responsive and progressive iteration. This episode comes as the third and final episode of movement two of the Sandbox, where we turn our attention to the organizations we lead and serve and the values that shape their work. Last month we talked quite a bit about how constraints as our contextual reality can drive creativity. This week we dive into feedback and assessment of our work as a way to assure they are grounded in our values and move us towards real i...2023-06-0435 minStrategic Imagination SandboxEpisode 5.2: Expanding and Integrating RISE Model for Feedback in Our WorkWelcome back to the Strategic Imagination Sandbox, hosted by Learning Forte! We return for part two of episode 5, with Stacy Williams-Duncan and our guest, Emily Wray. Our last episode scratched the surface a bit on planning for feedback and assessment. This episode is the one we were really excited about, as we expand and integrate that conversation into the RISE Model developed by our guest, Emily Wray. Emily Wray is the founder of Make Sense Media, an award-winning Instructional Designer at Full Sail University and a Course Director in their Media Communications Bachelor of Science...2023-06-0413 minStrategic Imagination SandboxEpisode 4.3: Personal and Organizational Assessment in Midst of ConstraintsWelcome back to the Strategic Imagination Sandbox, hosted by Learning Forte! We return for the final portion of episode 4, with Stacy Williams-Duncan and our guest, Kristen de Marco, executive director of Gateway HorseWorks. Copyright 2023 Learning Forte | www.learningforte.com | Intended for Participants in the Strategic Imagination Sandbox and not public distribution. 2023-05-2107 minStrategic Imagination SandboxEpisode 4.2: Constraints, Vulnerability, and Resilient ImpactOur last episode scratched the surface a bit on values and constraints in leadership, especially as they shape our movement towards intended impact. While that was an important preface, this episode is the one we are really excited about, as we expand and integrate that conversation into real examples of how Kristin de Marco and Gateway HorseWorks have navigated constraints for impact in the field of mental health and equine therapy. Copyright 2023 Learning Forte | www.learningforte.com | Intended for Participants in the Strategic Imagination Sandbox and not public distribution. 2023-05-1417 minStrategic Imagination SandboxEpisode 4.1: Embracing Contextual Constraints to Empower Strategic CreativityWe are eager to dive into episode four as we focus on Embracing contextual constraints to empower strategic creativity. This episode comes as the second episode of movement 2 of the Sandbox where we turn our attention to the organizations we lead and serve and the values that shape their work. Last month we talked quite a bit about the vitality of aligning our personal and organizational values for collective impact, especially focusing on how to explore and refine our organizational values. This week we dive into embracing contextual constraints to drive strategic creativity. While there is the t...2023-05-0740 minStrategic Imagination SandboxEpisode 3.3: Assessing Our Organizational Values for Intended ImpactWe return for the final portion of episode three as we reflect on our organizational values in alignment with our personal leadership values, with guests Rev. Canon ROSA LEE Lee HARDEN and Rev. Dr. LeRoy Barber.The concluding chapter of each episode hinges on assessment and evaluation of our work and leadership. The main question we are asking this week, why is this important in a leader's work in the midst of change, especially as it relates to values alignment? The Rev. Canon Rosa Lee Harden has quite an extensive bio, and some of y...2023-04-3016 minStrategic Imagination SandboxEpisode 3.2: Clarifying Organizational Values for Intended ImpactThis second part of our conversation with The Rev. Canon Rosa Lee Harden and Rev. Dr. LeRoy Barber of Neighborhood Economics hinges on clarifying our organizational values for contextual and intended impact. As you listen to their stories, see if you can identify how our guests rended and reconciled what was affecting their ability to live into values for intended impact. How might they have filled in the value-practice-reconcile worksheet? So, while Stacy will not be joining us this week, we are grateful two of her dear colleagues and friends are: Th...2023-04-1614 minStrategic Imagination SandboxEpisode 3.1: Aligning Personal and Organizational Values to Ground Collective ImpactWe are eager to dive into episode three as we focus on aligning personal and organizational values to ground collective impact. This episode comes as the first episode of movement 2 of the Sandbox where we turn our attention to the organizations we lead and serve and the values that shape their work. We have spent a lot of time on our personal values, believing leaders must begin there to be effective in their vocations as they shape and reconcile their relationship to change in an increasingly hybrid world. But now is where the stakes increase and so d...2023-03-2931 minStrategic Imagination SandboxEpisode 2.3: Assessing Our Leadership through Community, Care, and AccountabilityWe return for the final portion of episode 2 as we reflect on Change and Hybridity as Our Collective Reality with guest Jen James of NEXT Church and the Founder and CEO of Learning Forte, Stacy Williams-Duncan.As we come into a landing, a final area we believe is crucial to leadership has to do with assessment and evaluation of our work. In other words, we need to plan for feedback vital for informed, relevant, sustainable refinement, and contextual iterations of our work and witness to the common good. ---Jen James (she/her) i...2023-03-0514 minStrategic Imagination SandboxEpisode 2.2: Leading through Change with a Commitment to Expansive HybridityWelcome back the Strategic Imagination Sandbox, hosted by Learning Forte! We return for part two of episode 2 as we reflect on Change and Expansive Hybridity as Our Collective Reality with guest Jen James of Next Church and our CEO at Learning Forte, Stacy Williams-Duncan.Jen James (she/her) is the Program and Operations Director for NEXT Church where she coordinates and supports initiatives including the National Gathering, Cultivated Ministry, antiracism trainings, facilitation and coaching. She is a facilitator, trained coach, and Educator-at-Large working with congregations in the National Capital Presbytery and beyond to help church...2023-02-2015 minStrategic Imagination SandboxEpisode 2.1: Reconciling Our Relationship to ChangeWelcome back to the Strategic Imagination Sandbox, hosted by Learning Forte! We return for part two of episode 2 as we reflect on Change and Expansive Hybridity as Our Collective Reality, with guest Jen James of NEXT Church and the CEO of Learning Forte, Stacy Williams-Duncan.You might be wondering, what is Next Church? Next Church is a network of leaders, church members, ruling elders, youth leaders, educators, pastors, seminarians and professors, across the Presbyterian Church, USA and beyond, who believe the Church of the future will be more relational, more diverse, more collaborative, more hopeful a...2023-02-1239 minStrategic Imagination SandboxEpisode 1.3: Assessing Our Work to Align with Our ValuesWe have covered a lot this month and are so very grateful for what our guests John Roberto and Ryan Panzer have shared with us. As we come into a landing, a final area we believe is crucial to leadership has to do with assessment and evaluation of our work. In other words, we need to plan for feedback vital for informed, relevant, sustainable refinement and iterations of our work and witness to the common good. Ryan M. Panzer is a learning and leadership development professional in the technology industry and a...2023-02-0615 minStrategic Imagination SandboxEpisode 1.2: Values as Fulcrum for Hybrid LeadershipA major emphasis of the sandbox is expanding what we mean when we say hybrid. We move beyond the technological, although include it as a way to value the way we gather in both personal and digital spaces, but also how hybridity shapes who we are- or what is called intersectionality- what we do, where we exercise our vocation, and with whom we collaborate.Episode 1.2 builds upon our conversation that and the firm conviction that values center, shape, and ground your leadership in hybrid spaces. As we expand on our understanding of these values, one thing that i...2023-01-1917 minStrategic Imagination SandboxEpisode 1.1: Leveraging Our Values as Superpower for Sustainable LeadershipWelcome the Strategic Imagination Sandbox, hosted by Learning Forte! We are thrilled to be launching this custom podcast for leaders navigating their varied contexts of change and ever-expanding understandings of hybridity. Our hope is for the thought leaders you are introduced to in these episodes to enhance your learning, affirm your sense of call, stretch your imagination, and perk your curiosity for your work towards and pursuit of the common good. This podcast is designed to be listened to on your own terms in the various weeks they are published and as they fit within the movements a...2023-01-1335 min