https://www.vivitworldwide.com/change-makers-handbook daily 0.75 2025-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3e1d798123c222735da23/aec2f0aa-e132-493f-9414-9224179cc502/Screenshot+2024-04-11+at+8.02.06%E2%80%AFPM.jpg https://www.vivitworldwide.com/change-makers-handbook/why-i-professionalize-change-making monthly 0.5 2024-07-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3e1d798123c222735da23/443a2691-3f15-4fb7-bfb0-d3266168a87f/2021-11-09+01.53.49+copy+3.jpg Insights - Why I professionalize changemaking - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vivitworldwide.com/change-makers-handbook/identity-crisis monthly 0.5 2024-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3e1d798123c222735da23/9ec4d05c-a2cc-45bb-8525-2ab5106bae5c/ai-generated-8427257_640.jpg Insights - Identity crisis - In a word, what is your venture’s core identity? If I took a look, would I give the same answer? In the past two weeks, I have found myself talking about core identities with nearly a dozen change-makers. Each started with a list of symptoms shared with me. Each was confronting. And each brought palpable relief. https://www.vivitworldwide.com/change-makers-handbook/how-can-we-excel-at-transformation monthly 0.5 2023-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3e1d798123c222735da23/761a20d8-6d34-480c-b016-c4c890c07551/cocoon-39353_1280.jpg Insights - How can we excel at transformation? If continual improvement addresses animal cruelty by switching to organic hamburgers, transformation considers a vegan diet. If continual improvement looks for water efficient irrigation technologies, transformation tries to eliminate irrigation altogether. If continual improvement looks to improve staff productivity by 5%, transformation considers automating repetitive tasks to free the staff for creative ones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3e1d798123c222735da23/957508bb-0f0c-4869-8e57-c89985c8f5f3/vehicle-2463018_1280.jpg Insights - How can we excel at transformation? - Relegating change entirely to change management is like leaving fire safety to firefighters. Those are the last resort. First, design and construction professionals reduce the risk of fire (quality electrical wiring, automatic shut offs on appliances, etc.). Then, they reduce the impact of fire should it occur (fire-retardant building materials, the sprinkler system, exit routes, etc.). We have building codes and inspections because we cannot imagine relying solely on a fire truck miles away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3e1d798123c222735da23/537dfe36-1ac5-4435-bcb9-24ea88d8450a/biology-2024773_1280.jpg Insights - How can we excel at transformation? - Experienced change-makers will tell you that there is both rhyme and reason behind their actions. The fact that their change-making can be methodically perfected over time defines it as a craft; a trade; a discipline. However, we haven’t seen it this way. Even though people have been transforming their realities since the beginning of time, change-making is seen as an indirect, even incidental by-product of other professional activities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3e1d798123c222735da23/a555f38f-6444-43e5-bea4-66d8ca2706c9/mount-everest-6395759_1280.jpg Insights - How can we excel at transformation? - When people ask me what I do, I say that I am a trail guide for change-makers, walking a few steps ahead to take them where they want to go while reducing their risk and providing a bit of company on what is an intrinsically lonely journey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3e1d798123c222735da23/1b7d2c51-5861-4fb6-82eb-20534d1787c3/food-6342333_1280.jpg Insights - How can we excel at transformation? - Like your perfect brownie comes with a recipe, so does transformational change. We just don’t know the recipe yet; an omission I have dedicated my career and my current PhD research to rectifying. Through the years of distilling the formula for effective systems change, I have identified many elements (I introduce them in the next section), but it is not good enough. Is it worth identifying the top three parts that a car needs to run safely? Maybe. But you wouldn’t get in unless somebody – many somebodies – know how to ensure that all the hundreds of parts, many unglamorous, were working well together. As a system. Complex systems – and that is what most of us are trying to change – are more like a spider web than like a spice cabinet. Pulling on any one element affects the entire web; a web that likes being exactly how it is whether we agree with that or not. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3e1d798123c222735da23/79a1d598-467e-44a8-bf68-8ffd8db51a10/train-303705_1280.png Insights - How can we excel at transformation? - I did not quite comprehend the significance of the fact that nobody cared how those processes would get recalibrated. Not because it did not matter – it did not take a genius to acknowledge that it did - but because it was literally in nobody’s purview. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3e1d798123c222735da23/0e0598b3-b776-4c0c-a4f9-e899702e9b76/paragliding-4727377_1280.jpg Insights - How can we excel at transformation? - Unlike doctors, chemists, plumbers, or florists, we lack the confidence of knowing the value of our skillset. In the absence of its recognition as a craft, we can’t even know with confidence if we’re any good at change-making. Change-making is a wiring, a calling, and a choice but it is also a discipline and a trade that must be recognized, taught, practiced, and supported as such. https://www.vivitworldwide.com/change-makers-handbook/public-health-equity monthly 0.5 2022-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3e1d798123c222735da23/cf1e7a58-e1b0-4d2c-851b-9531e9541157/TheAllianceCenter-TruBluImages-2021-17.jpg Insights - Public health equity - Best practice Globally, WELL leads in defining and verifying a healthy building, and, especially as a WELL Accredited Professional and Performance Testing Agent, it has been encouraging to see the buildup to the 4B+ sq. ft. currently registered for a WELL rating around the world. https://www.vivitworldwide.com/change-makers-handbook/why-plan-for-exit monthly 0.5 2022-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3e1d798123c222735da23/c3d21b77-0bf1-4600-9ff6-3b69d0f1ae66/a-buy-me-a-coffee-g1d3bc7cd1_1920.jpg Insights - Why you should plan for exit - Our ventures grow around the idiosyncrasies of both the people and the circumstances that shape them. Considering this, think of yours as a home you are building while also occupying. You may forgo the kitchen for a four-car garage. You may build your home around an elaborate two-story birdcage. Or your layout may be utterly determined by the practicality of construction, not by ultimate usability. The only thing that matters is whether it all works for you. Until you try to sell your home, of course. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3e1d798123c222735da23/9b66448c-cf0b-4409-9812-df3f31d29d19/doors-g0161c03c6_1920.jpg Insights - Why you should plan for exit - What is exit? Exit refers to getting out of your venture. The most common exits are sale (incl. buy-out by business partner(s) as well as mergers and acquisitions), Initial Public Offering (IPO), staff buy-out (ESOP), and dissolution. In future articles, I will explore what these mean for impact-focused ventures. https://www.vivitworldwide.com/change-makers-handbook/esg-reporting monthly 0.5 2022-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3e1d798123c222735da23/192ecf59-b697-4300-9c89-c6ce6d24f468/SASB+Standards.png Insights - ESG Reporting - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3e1d798123c222735da23/171b9215-c334-416d-8bd4-c59291495ca3/alex+gold+headshot.png Insights - ESG Reporting - Dr. Alex Gold Alex Gold has a PhD in climate change risk management. He is an expert in delivering integrated reporting, corporate sustainability strategies, scenario analyses and the TCFD, as well as helping companies respond to key ESG investor benchmarks. Born and raised in the USA, Alex spent over a decade as a professional in Australia and is a dual citizen of both countries. 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I was also able to convert the $60/pp for the obligatory OH&S backpack that would have been collective dust into an individual budget, and built a marketplace where each employee chose from dozens of bags, backpacks, skins, sleeves, and other personalization accessories that made their transition to activities-based working both more palatable and exciting. https://www.vivitworldwide.com/change-makers-handbook/regaining-footing monthly 0.5 2022-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3e1d798123c222735da23/1651270561107-8XHVU2C0QH1F9YURFMDE/Plane_installment+3.jpg Insights - Mega trend: Regaining Footing - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vivitworldwide.com/change-makers-handbook/financial-modelling monthly 0.5 2022-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3e1d798123c222735da23/aa771ed2-6708-4115-838e-2892d3f8bb77/etienne-martin-2_K82gx9Uk8-unsplash.jpg Insights - Money is - still - power - Capital raising Whether you need funds to start up or to expand, any investor – including yourself – needs to know they will get their money back with a return ($ or non-$). Model to quantify expected success: profitability, assets, exit potential, and break-even point. Amidst a prevailing lack of financial rigor, we have seen our financial modeling unlock private, public, and pension funds, significantly outperforming the average. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3e1d798123c222735da23/1627241682183-3QTJJ02SBH8O9Z1A3N33/chess-4067149_1280.jpg Insights - Money is - still - power - Exit planning Starting with the end in mind is good practice. Do you hope to get acquired (we have helped nearly a dozen M&As, including between non-profits), envision staff ownership or a public listing? Or do you prefer to just close the doors when you’re done? 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