'Strategic Doing: A conceptual and practical experience' with Dr Gemma Jiang.

How to lead change in complex adaptive networks that bridge the knowing and the doing? Strategic Doing is the best answer Gemma has found so far.

Strategic thinking are guided by two main questions: Where are we going? How will we get there? Strategic Doing breaks those two questions down into four:

• What could we do?
• What should we do?
• What will we do?
• What is our 30/30?

The first two questions guide the group through a divergent sense making process that ends in a decision on the "Big Easy" opportunity to pursue, and last two questions transition into the convergent phase of making action and follow up plans. This process with ten rules enables a network of people to traverse the whole journey from being attracted to the possibilities of co-creating a better future together to walking away with concrete action items for one pathfinder project, and follow up plans to evaluate the effectiveness of the pathfinder project. It is a radical departure from the traditional strategic planning process which disconnects the thinking and the doing.

To learn more about Strategic Doing, please visit https://strategicdoing.net/.

During this Dialogic Drink session, we will:

• Frame the conversation by comparing strategic doing with traditional strategic planning;
• Experience key features of the strategic doing process by engaging with a framing question that capture the collective imagination of DD community members;
• Engage in reflective conversations about the applicability of strategic doing in different contexts.

This DD is highly experiential. As guided by the Strategic Doing process, we will crowdsource assets and make micro-commitments in order to answer the framing question "imagine DD as a community where new stories of future organizations emerge. What would that look like?" We designed the session this way because we believe the best way to learn something new is to experience it. We are also hopeful that the new insights generated will help Richard and Oscar to take our community to the next stage. You will not be held accountable for the assets you shared and commitments you made.

Dr Gemma Jiang's biography

Dr. Gemma Jiang specializes in providing comprehensive leadership support for large complex science teams funded by the National Science Foundation in the United States. Her primary roles with these teams include: 1) Identifying and amplifying assets within the team; 2) serving as buffer and connective tissue for disparate parts of the team; 3) leading cultural change towards collaboration and co-creation; 4) holding shared vision for scientific research that includes societal impact; 5) generating new knowledge by integrating theory with practice.

Through her position as the senior team scientist with Colorado State University, she serves as the chief team scientist of two National Science Foundation funded, multi-year, multi-institute, $15M budgeted projects. She also nurtures a thriving private consulting practice to help smaller science teams with their team leadership needs.

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