What is an Executive in Residence?

What is an Executive in Residence?

Nicole de Beaufort
leadership

Adaptation is one of my favorite words and the executive-in-residence positions at EarlyWorks are a direct result of my desire to adapt and learn. I have had periods during EarlyWorks’ lifespan when I had an ideal of what growth and success looked like based on what I “should be doing” or how I “should be growing”; and invariably, I have found that the real success is when you can learn from everything; especially when things don’t go your way. We’re faced with constant change and how we respond to it matters. Allowing room in my mindset for adaptation unlocks so many possibilities. And one of those possibilities was a creative idea for how to tap into executive talent as a microbusiness.

Evidence of Compassion: Imagining Life Post-coronavirus

Evidence of Compassion: Imagining Life Post-coronavirus

Nicole de Beaufort
leadership, strategic narrative, communications

The novel coronavirus-19 is a silent invader that I’ve come to think of in metaphorical terms as a thief. The pandemic that has robbed us of our abilities to plan for the future is on a rampage. The only way to prevent it is to preemptively isolate ourselves from it. But even then, no one is really immune. We can use this experience to define our future.

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Stepping off the Struggle Bus and into Radical Possibility

Stepping off the Struggle Bus and into Radical Possibility

Tammie Jones
leadership, cooperative, systems level

Those of us who have been working to make things better for children in Detroit know the statistics. We don’t need to look up the rate of children living in concentrated poverty, those failing to reach reading proficiency by the end of third grade, the percentage of students who are chronically absent from school…Instead of telling the story of the communities we serve through depressing statistics, we can frame the work around what is possible.

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How to Bolster a Movement with a Story System

How to Bolster a Movement with a Story System

Mary Aviles
strategic narrative, systems level, cooperative

Introducing our Ideas on Loan series! For a variety of reasons, some of our best ideas are never implemented. This series a eulogy to those ideas that never saw the light of day, sourced from real life (the names have been changed to protect the innocent). In sharing them, we hope they inspire you, spurring a potential approach to a challenge you are facing in your work.

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