Would your company benefit from forming new partnerships to effectively source diverse talent? What about creating an organizational culture that makes our employees feel truly seen and heard so that they stay? We’ll cover all of this and more at…
How do we create and implement successful strategies for addressing the issues we face as a community? That is the central question we’ll be exploring at FullConTech 2019. To meaningfully address the theme, we created five distinct tracks that will…
With each cohort of the WTIA Ion Collaborators, we’ve tweaked our requirements, refined our procedures, and experimented with different group dynamics. But with Cohort 5, we’re stepping out into completely uncharted territory—not just for WTIA, but for the greater Seattle…
As a national expert on working across sectors to build inclusive communities, Dr. Tiffany Manuel knows firsthand that the most meaningful solutions are created when people of different backgrounds, strengths, and skill sets put their minds together. That’s why we…
This spring, some of Seattle’s brightest leaders began their journey as Cohort 4 of the WTIA Ion Collaborators. The program has undergone many evolutions since it was launched in June 2017, but its core mission remains the same: incubate cross-sector…
When we talk about cross-functional teams, we typically mean those that exist within a single department or organization. When we form cross-functional teams across different organizations, they are usually brought together around a particular challenge, like affordable housing or homelessness.…
Have you ever been part of a group of well-meaning, passionate people who came together to solve a problem, but ended up getting nowhere? Maybe the group’s vision was too narrow because its members all shared the same ideas and…
Now more than ever, we need cross-sector collaboration to solve the complex civic problems that affect our region. That’s exactly the mission of our Ion Program, which is now in its second year and has facilitated a fresh batch of…
When we kicked off Cohort 3 of the WTIA Ion Collaborators on June 20, I asked everyone to write down the words to express their state of mind on the first day of their experiment in collaboration. My word was…
FullConTech Fall 2017 brought 60 participants from the agriculture and technology industries, government, education, and nonprofit organizations to Sleeping Lady in Leavenworth to talk about the Immigrant Workforce. The event gave participants an opportunity to connect with each other in…