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This area is filled with how-to articles, engaging conversations, and tons of examples of Catalytic Thinking in Action including actual planning sessions. Much to explore and learn from!
Wow! After nearly a year of working to identify a look and feel that would evoke the core of Creating the Future, we have a new graphic design – a new logo. The first step in the foundation of our new website. In the process, you helped us identify what that “look and feel” could make possible for … Read more
A year ago this month, Lisa Humenik, Rebecca Hurd and Justin Pollock were exploring together – along with 5 of their soon-to-be fellows – in Creating the Future’s Consultant Immersion program. On Tuesday, October 14th at 2:30pm ET, they will be together again for the first time in a year, talking about the difference in … Read more
We’re finally in the home stretch of selecting a new logo for Creating the future and this is where you help us decide on the direction to take. As a reminder, the design criteria we’ve been using to embody the spirit, look and feel for Creating the Future, is based on your comments and suggestions. … Read more
Our October board meeting will happen right here at this post on Monday, October 13th at 1:00 p.m. ET. Watch the meeting live here and share your ideas, questions, and observations by tweeting to the hashtag #CTFuture. If the video does not appear precisely on the hour, please be patient – we are probably running … Read more
Fellow: (In academia) a member of a group of learned people who work together as peers in the pursuit of mutual knowledge or practice (per Wikipedia). For nearly a year, our Creating the Future community of immersion graduates have been referring to ourselves as fellows. As a community, we played with words like graduate, practitioner, … Read more
Creating the Future’s board meeting will happen at the post at this link on Monday, September 8th at 1pm EDT. Board Packet Materials: Agenda Digging deep, as deep as we can go. This month, the board of Creating the Future will be tilling the soil of two topics that are inspiring as much as they are … Read more
Our September board meeting will happen right here at this post on Monday, September 8th at 1pm ET. Watch the meeting live here, and share your ideas, questions, and observations by tweeting to the hashtag#CTFuture. If the video does not appear precisely on the hour, please be patient – we are probably running a few minutes … Read more
We asked, and you answered! After receiving an enormous amount of feedback on what you envisioned a new logo for Creating the Future would look and feel like, we were able to gather all the blog comments, Facebook comments and other input into a design request. As a reminder of what we are trying to … Read more
Our August board meeting promises to be a lively one, with three important questions to work through. Anyone who observes our board meetings knows that we like to be thorough, and with three big topics, you’ll want to bring your roller skates to help us navigate through these conversations! Item #1: Creating the Future’s Annual IRS 990 … Read more
To hear the full story of this case study, including the various strategies we are using, watch the video at the end of this post. This post may feel a bit unusual. Normally a case study has a beginning, middle and end. We’re still in the middle of this case study, though. As a fellow … Read more