It’s about talent – the human element that drives demand for good jobs and quality of life, the very things that would not be possible without smart, innovative, dedicated people.
It’s about entrepreneurship – the creative, risk-taking element that charts its own course, whether in a completely new endeavor or an existing one, and, in placing it all on the line, creates opportunity that benefits community.
It’s about networks – how people connect and relate to one another, share intelligence, raise awareness, and create human synapatic systems that rapidly transmit ideas and accelerate innovation.
It’s about stories – the language and methods we use to convey what matters, that capture our imaginations, weave us together, and make us realist that shares experience and effort offer more reward than solo artistry.
It’s about community – because community is where talent lives, entrepreneurs thrive, stories are shares, and networks flourish, creating powerful innovation incubators inventing our way to better, smarter tomorrows.
Learning and Leading Change
StartGrowTransform is about ecosystems, continuums, transparency, agility and change. It’s about complex interdependence, wicked problems, and the chaos that is a hallmark of economic, workforce, and community development. It’s about the world in which we work, learn, live, and play. And it’s about sharing passion, ideas, success, and lessons around the things we care about.
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What we’re about
Start, Grow, Transform is about a lot of things.
Learning and Leading Change
StartGrowTransform is about ecosystems, continuums, transparency, agility and change. It’s about complex interdependence, wicked problems, and the chaos that is a hallmark of economic, workforce, and community development. It’s about the world in which we work, learn, live, and play. And it’s about sharing passion, ideas, success, and lessons around the things we care about.
Come on in. We’re all in this boat together.
We are
Kristin Wolff (kwolff@skilledwork.org)
John Metcalf (jmetcalf@skilledwork.org)
Lewis Humphreys (humphreys@skilledwork.org)
Lisa Katz (lkatz@skilledwork.org)
Mel Hagensen (mhagensen@skilledwork.org)
Rebecca Cohen (rcohen@skilledwork.org)
Sandy Marshall (smarshall@skilledwork.org)
The phone works too: 734.769.2900
About the lovely photos up top
Kenegan gets credit for the green piney-tip.
KirrilyRobert’s barcamp grid made us swoon (since we love barcamp).
And wonderferret provided urban grit that inspired grins all around.
We thank them all, and Flickr, too.