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If you ask ten people about their worst experiences with networking, you’ll probably hear about feelings of awkwardness, embarrassment, inadequacy, and ineffectiveness. But networking doesn’t have to be like this. In fact, networking can be radically different. In this webinar, Maya Townsend will share how to get back in touch with the core purpose of networking. Participants will learn how ... Read more »

Organizations know that collaboration is important. However, they often struggle to find ways to evaluate collaboration, provide concrete evidence of its positive impacts, and improve interactions. In this webinar, Maya Townsend, MSOD, founder of Partnering Resources, LLC, presents two case studies describing how a quasi-governmental organization and a nonprofit publishing company used network analysis to assess and improve collaboration. She ... Read more »

How can organizations use Organization Network Analysis (ONA) to support culture change, leadership development, talent management, and collaboration across silos? In this private session for Northwestern University graduate students in the School of Education and Public Policy, Partnering Resources' founder Maya Townsend shares practical case studies showing how organizations have applied ONA and achieved results.

More information coming soon! Leaders intuitively know that informal influencers can help make or break a change effort. However, the change management profession doesn't yet have a clearly articulated, well-practiced methodology for identifying influencers or using network strategies to support change. In this technology-powered workshop, we build network intelligence while learning a simple tool for mapping and analyzing organizational networks ... Read more »

The ONA Summit is a unique opportunity to learn from international thought leaders about how networks of trust and data-driven insights can help you accelerate transformation across your organization. This pandemic has significantly challenged your organization, teams, work culture, and workflows. Trust plays a key role in how your organization adapts to the “new normal” and how the crisis will ... Read more »

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Conversations about racial justice often involve hearing viewpoints that differ from your own, and have the potential to evoke deep emotions. One approach to facilitating such conversations is called Deep Democracy, a method developed in South Africa during the transition from apartheid to democracy. We’ll hear from two Deep Democracy practitioners, Maya Townsend & İpek Ütün, and discuss how the method’s basic ... Read more »

Presented by: Maya Townsend In November 2022, an international group of business leaders and thinkers asked: “What are organizations centered around?” The answers were telling: Leaders. Operations. Profit. Customers. Managers. Money. Notably missing from the list were purpose, human well-being, learning, and growth. Many of today's organizations replicate the Taylorist model, which believes employees are tools to be used, not ... Read more »