About the Event
In our increasingly polarized world, collaboration has become both more important and more difficult. To tackle the issues that matter most—from climate change to workplace conflict—we often must work with people we disagree with, dislike, or distrust. To do so, we need a fundamental shift in how we think about and approach collaboration. Drawing on over 30 years of global experience, Adam Kahane challenges the myth of harmonious teamwork and offers a revolutionary approach that embraces discord, experimentation, and genuine co-creation.
Join us in community for this Learn Out Loud session, where Kahane will address:
- How to avoid “enemyfying” people we don’t trust
- The core challenges of collaborating across difference
- Conventional collaboration and “stretch collaboration”
- The “10 choices” we make as we collaborate across difference
Moderated by Jeanne Bell, Program Host, Leading Edge (NPQ)
Adam Kahane
He is an internationally renowned organizer, designer and facilitator of complex and conflictual multi-stakeholder processes through which business, government, and civil society leaders collaborate to address such challenges.
Adam has worked in more than fifty countries, with executives and politicians, generals and guerrillas, civil servants and trade unionists, community activists and United Nations officials, clergy and artists.
He is also a best-selling author of six books about this work, is a Member of the Order of Canada, and in 2022, he was named a Schwab Foundation Social Innovation Thought Leader of the Year at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Jeanne Bell
Program Host
Shétu Rose
Shétu Rose (she/her) is Chief Executive Officer at Diverge Finance Cooperative with over 20 years of financial management experience. Over the years she has led and supported administrative and strategic management teams for local and international organizations in the non-profit sector.
Prior to Diverge, Shétu was the VP of Finance and Operations at the Center for Economic Inclusion and the Director of Finance at AchieveMpls (now Achieve Twin Cities). She also has a wealth of international experience, having worked in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.
She is a passionate advocate for equity and human rights and is committed to bringing about sustainable economic change for families and communities. She currently serves on the Board of Arise Community Credit Union and a founding board member of MUFEYA in Minnesota.
Curtis Klotz