Sami Berger
Sami’s practice focuses on developing and implementing learning strategies within networks, collaborative initiatives, government agencies, and non-profit organizations that are striving to make a positive difference in their communities. Since 2013, she has supported them with their evaluation and research needs.
Her current work includes conducting developmental evaluation, qualitative research (including using social network analysis to visualize the networks that she works with), and capacity building to help her clients understand how, why and whether they are making progress.
Blythe Butler
My work is dedicated to building adaptive capacity in individuals, organizations and communities. My approach is rooted in organizational change, network science, strategy development, evaluation & learning methodologies.
I have a broad and diverse background in strategic planning, change management, developmental evaluation, facilitation and organizational development. Over the past 20 years I have worked in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, consulting with clients in a variety of topics ranging from ISO Quality Management, Process Safety Culture, Corporate Social Responsibility to supporting clients working on social change in the areas of Homelessness, Youth Mental Health, Natural Supports, Early Childhood Development, Climate Change & Environmental Regeneration, Domestic Violence and Collaborative Governance.
For more than a decade I have contributed to the development, design and delivery of the Human Venture Institute and Human Venture Leadership programs (formerly Leadership Calgary). My contributions to this community have deeply impacted my approach to work and life.
Current and past community contributions include: Board Member of the Human Venture Institute (current), Board Member of Bolivia Kids (current); Board Member of Wildwood Playschool (current) past chair of the Leadership Calgary Program Committee and a past Board Member for Volunteer Calgary (now Propellus). In 2008, I was fortunate to be named to Calgary’s 'Top 40 Under 40'. I hold a BComm in Finance and International Development from the University of Alberta, have studied Journalism at Carleton University, Design Marketing at Parsons in New York City and worked as a Page for the Canadian House of Commons.
I live on Treaty 7 lands, the traditional territory of the Nitsatapi, Tsuu T'ina and Stoney Nakoda Nations, and part of Metis Region 3 with my husband and my two children.
"Strengthening the threads tying together our various issues and movements - is, I would argue, the most pressing task anyone concerned with social and economic justice."
- Naomi Klein
contact Blythe: blythe@shaw.ca
Matt Birkhold
Matt Birkhold is founder of Visionary Organizing Lab, an educational laboratory that supports people to experiment with building new economic practices, building beloved communities, and developing a sense of themselves as creators of history. Matt’s work focuses on the relationships between issues, people, and processes, the way those relationships shape individual people, and the way they constitute a larger system.
Connecting people with their creative capacity to shape the world, his work fosters organizing around critical connections at sites of interdependence and facilitates personal, social, political, and economic transformations.
By creating processes where people come to recognize the interdependent nature of the world, his work creates space for people to recognize the contributions they make to the world and make them intentionally.
Ulises Aguila
I am passionate about Networks, as a way to help others to become leaders, as the option to create fastest initiatives in social systems, as an alternative to do things that really matter to us and are deep aligned to our purpose, as an organic adaptive way of 'descaling' and as the solution to build ecosystems of innovation to solve the greatest human challenges.
We need to become more aware of our power of collaboration and experiment together with better self awareness as collaborative teams, as a common consciousness, as organizations, as networks and as leadership that helps others to become better versions of themselves by helping others to work on things that really matter to them.
My objective is to be part of this new technological and management wave to really focus on our deepest social problems and create break-through value solutions through Networks and ecosystems.