Twenty Minute Collaborations with Gregg Potter

Gregg is a connector and sometimes people call him a friend collector. Well this serves us all well when it comes to collaboration. This week Gregg welcomed Celeste D. Brito to Twenty Minute Collaborations.

Celeste D Brito is a passionate and enthusiastic Facilitator, Mentor and Consultant - https://www.linkedin.com/in/thebloomproject/

She is a Board member of the International Association of Facilitators - https://www.iaf-world.org/  and developed her career as an HR and Organizational Development Executive in the corporate world for more than 20 years. She has credentials in Facilitation processes and techniques, assessment tools, and social sciences.

Celeste lives in Almada, Portugal; the sea and the sun are her inspirations. 

She believes that the diversity of thinking is central, actionable and integral to all conversations and collaborative approaches - https://mindtime.com/about/ 

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Welcome to the final guest of the night. At the March, 2024 Salon, the final guest of the evening was Rebecca Ryan. It was quite a magical experience that talked so many things.

Rebecca Ryan is an economist and top 50 professional futurist. Trained as a futurist and an economist, Rebecca helps clients see what’s coming – as a keynote speaker, a Futures Lab facilitator, an author of books, blogs and articles, a client advisor, and the founder of Futurist Camp. Check out her blog or watch her Q&A on how NGC helps organizations prepare for the future using Strategic Foresight.

Subscribe to her newsletter here:

https://rebeccaryan.com/

Check out Areli Estrada's episode:

https://internationalinstituteoncollaboration.com/

Here is the link to Gregg's Thursday Thoughts email he mentioned: https://us12.campaign-archive.com/?u=0debc82f925d39c6bdedb3b38&id=9b4f216ce4

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In March we had a Twenty Minute Collaborations Salon hosted by Madison Gas & Electric (MG&E). The second guest was Mario Garcia Sierra. Mario has created deep roots and what he calls, " A community grid" in Madison. He is the Director of Residential and Community Services at MG&E. He sits on the Board of Directors for Centro Hispano in Madison and is involved in the community countless other ways.

We get into a lot of topics in this episode so get ready.

Madison Gas & Electric: https://www.mge.com/

Mario on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mario-garcia-sierra/

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We're back! Gregg and our team has been learning new software but now we're here. This first episode post hiatus is with the phenomenal Lynn Borton. Lynn producer & host of Choose to Be Curious, a show all about curiosity, The show is nationally-syndicated and recently won the Alliance for Community Media’s Hometown Media Award for “Best Audio Programming by an Independent Producer”. Lynn describes herself as a "facilitator of conversation and transformation”. She has more than 30 years of experience in strategic governance and change management in the non-profit sector. Much of her career was at NAMI - National Alliance on Mental Illness - ultimately as COO for 10+ years.

The conversation centers in a long-term family collaboration that we can all take something from.

Check more out:

Intagram - @choosetobecuriousFB:

Facebook - @choosetobecurious

Website - choosetobecurious.com 

Be sure to check out the episode of Choose to be Curious where Gregg is the guest. https://lynnborton.com/2024/08/29/collaboration-is-a-curiosity-practice-with-gregg-potter/

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#collaboration #podcast #curiosity #collaborationskills

What happens when we don't like being in a collaboration? There is a lot going on? Is it the work? Is it the people? Is it how we got nominated for the work? With all things considered that we chose to be in the collaboration, this Collab Quickie goes into how we can support ourselves when we are in these types of collaborations.

This week Gregg invited Mandar Apte to sit with him on the podcast. This is a big adventure of a conversation and many topics are covered.

Mandar currently manages Cities4Peace a strategic consultancy that promotes peace in cities and communities across the world worldwide. His pioneering efforts in collaboration with Los Angeles PD to reduce gang violence and with UN Peacekeeping Mission in Cyprus to enable harmonious coexistence between Turkish and Greek Cypriots are noteworthy. 

Mandar has produced & directed From India With Love - a documentary film that promotes the message of nonviolence in the world and hosts leadership delegations to India. He regularly hosts leadership delegations to India - more details are available here.

https://www.amazon.com/India-Love-Scarlett-Lewis/dp/B082VNSNVW

Prior to this, Mandar has worked at Shell International for nearly two decades and in his last role managed Shell's Gamechanger social innovation program. For more about his work; visit his website.

http://www.mandarapte.net/about

#collaboration #collaborationskills #storytelling #podcast #peacefulprotest

Gregg launches this series about visionaries in collaboration with the phenomenal, Don MacPherson. Don is the CEO and host of 12 Geniuses - a podcast for curious and voracious learners. Don interviews exceptional people about trends and technologies changing the way we live and work.

A five-time entrepreneur, Don has spent 25 years researching the employee and customer experiences, the attributes of great leadership, and how healthy organizational cultures are created and sustained. His work has extended to hundreds of organizations from Fortune 500 companies to organizations in the manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, retail, software, telecommunications, and educations industries. Don’s expertise includes HR Technology, employee motivation, leadership effectiveness, and leadership development.  

An avid traveler and volunteer, Don has visited 75 countries and mentored young people in Minneapolis for more than 30 years. He helped found Leadership Garden – an organization that provides life experiences for promising, curious students interested in getting help reaching their full potential – and the Think2Perform Research Institute’s Future Leaders Academy.

Social Links

LinkedIn Personal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donmacpherson/

LinkedIn Company: https://www.linkedin.com/company/18753870/

YouTube Company: https://www.youtube.com/@12geniuses80/videos

Referenced in the podcast:

#collaboration #collaborationskills #buildingblocksofcollaboration.

Gregg took a moment to share some thoughts about how being 'nice' and 'kind' show up in collaborations. This is also our introduction into the next series looking at how visions come to life in our collaborations.

If you're interested in looking at current offerings from the International Institute on Collaboration, check out the website: https://internationalinstituteoncollaboration.com/coursework

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It's technically Gregg's 50th episode! Wow! Thank you for coming on this journey with us.

For this episode, we have the incredible Will Green. When you think of a visionary, you should think of Will Green. He is the perfect way to end this series highlighting leadership in Madison, WI. He is a father, husband, community leader, and mentor. Will has his degree in psychology from University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. He is the high school varsity girls basketball coach for a high school in Madison. And, what is talked about most in this episode is that Will is the founder and Executive Director of Mentoring Positives. This is a conversation you don't want to miss.

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How to find Will:

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-green-bab50616/

Mentoring Positives Facebook: @mentoringpositives

Mentoring Positives Website: https://mentoringpositives.org/

Welcome to 2024! We're launching the new season of with a series highlighting some local leaders in Madison, WI. This series is brought to you by Common Wealth Development in Madison, WI. Check out everything Common Wealth is doing at ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://cwd.org/⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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This week we have another fantastic Madison leader, Saran Ouk. Saran is the Office of Business Resources Manager for the City of Madison’s Economic Development Division where she currently helps guide the City’s post-COVID recovery efforts to support businesses most negatively impacted and she overseas business programs and initiatives with an equity lens.

She is also the Founder and CEO of a nonprofit and LLC. Her nonprofit, conNEXTions and LLC, Dream Bigger empowers people to achieve their financial, career and entrepreneurial dreams. She has a bachelors degree from UW-Madison in Community Nonprofit Leadership, is a graduate of the Associates in Commercial Real Estate (ACRE) program out of Milwaukee, and was named one of InBusiness 40 Under 40 in 2021.

Saran has over 15 years of experience in the financial institution industry and uses her financial knowledge to create curriculums and workshops to help underrepresented young adults and those from low-income communities make good financial decisions, and educate the community on how to build generational wealth.

Saran on Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saran-ouk/

ConNEXTions : https://www.linkedin.com/company/connextions-madison/about/

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Check out the International Institute on Collaboration.

⁠⁠⁠https://internationalinstituteoncollaboration.com/⁠⁠⁠

If you're in Madison, WI on March 19, join us for the live Twenty Minute Collaborations Salon.

⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ggpotter.com/twenty-minute-collaborations/twenty-minute-collaborations-salon/⁠⁠⁠⁠

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