In this episode, we look at how the technology innovation happens pipeline happens from research, to industry, to community. We look at how these relationships are typically extractive and how they can become more sustainable. How high levels of collaboration and collective intelligence and emergence work can enrich the way we think about nature and problem-solving: ocean memory, gentle accountability, human heart-work, and valuing the contribution of all.

Our guest, Anne is the founder of Lean-to Collaborations.  Her experience spans 20 years of working across disciplines and sectors in the US and Canada.  Lean-to Collaborations helps purpose-driven teams build the mindset, structures, and processes they need to address complex social, environmental, and technical challenges.  This work extends her 12-year career as a Senior Program Director and Program Officer at the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineer, and Medicine. Anne is a facilitator, team consultant, and former internal program evaluator. She's co-author of the book Collaborations of Consequence and current membership chair for the International Network for the Science of Team Science (INSciTS).  The lean-to in her company logo pays homage to her lifelong love of hiking and the power of shared purpose, wonder, and open structures to help teams traverse the sometimes difficult terrain from finding each other to funding to flourishing.

Contact Anne Heberger Marino
Twitter handle: @LeanToCollabs
LinkedIn page

Resources mentioned on the show:

Articles/Book

• Diversity Innovation Paradox in Science (PNAS)
• Outperforming yet undervalued  (PLOS One)
• Science's Diversity Problem (Stanford Social Innovation Review)
• 10 Simple Rules for an Anti-racist Lab (PLOS Computational Biology)
• Collaborations of Consequence (NAKFI)

Organizations, Projects, Programs

• Gulf of Maine Research Institute (NSF Convergence Accelerator Project)
• Ocean Memory Project
• Presencing Institute
• 6 Team Conditions
• International Network for the Science of Team Science

NSF Funding Streams

• NSF Convergence Research
• NSF EPSCoR

Originally recorded on February 18, 2022.

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