Notes from the Field

Articles and personal reflections from the GWI team as they navigate their lives and their shared work.

Making the Implicit Explicit

By Micah, with Susan Grove

03.10.21

Working as a part of a shared leadership team has impacted my life in more ways [...]

We All Shape the Shared Journey

by Susan Grove

02.23.21

Shared leadership. Sharing power. Someone recently asked me what checks and balances the WSDNP model has [...]

The Brunt of the Wind

by Hélène Lesterlin, with Susan Grove

02.09.21

I needed that. It released something. We were in an all-hands meeting, and the relatively [...]

Notes from the Field: What is Home?

By Aja Schmeltz

03.27.20

Home. What does that mean to you? Is it a place? Is it an idea? Is [...]

Notes from the Field: Move Up, Move Up

By Caitlin Dourmashkin

03.05.20

A few months ago, our co-Worker Susan told us about Move Up, Move Up, a l[...]

Notes from the Field: Is Your Work Slower?

By Susan Grove

02.06.20

In the conversations that swirl around being worker self-directed, here’s one of the most frequent [...]

Notes from the Field: Learning to Take the Lead

By Micah, with Susan Grove

02.06.20

Personally, I think I’m good at playing the support role. I have played this role many [...]

Notes from the Field: Keeping the Fire Burning

By Terri Hall

11.20.19

A few springs ago, one of my friend’s daughters spent the night alone in the woods [...]

Notes from the Field: Black Executive Director Pipeline

by Micah, with Susan Grove

11.07.19

Last February, I was on a panel discussing the Race To Lead Survey at Non-Profit [...]

Notes from the Field: Where the Air is Fresh

by Hélène Lesterlin, with Susan Grove

11.01.19

I started at Good Work Institute seven weeks ago. It still feels unfamiliar, fresh, there’s still [...]

Notes from the Field : Autonomy in the Land of Shared Leadership

By Caitlin Dourmashkin

10.24.19

It’s not the shared leadership that is hard, it is the not-shared leadership. When we {...]

Notes from the Field: I Believe in Process

by Susan Grove

10.18.19

As a student and practitioner of facilitation, it delights me that in this new model of [...]