Lean-to Collaborations
Work with me when you’re ready to stop “winging it” and go deeper into what it means to create an effective team.
Today’s top leaders know the potential and pitfalls of collaboration. Teamwork is essential, and challenging to initiate and navigate. We hear these questions all the time:
Where do we even begin with a process for generating innovative ideas with a large and diverse group?
How do we solicit the best ideas within our division, company, or broader ecosystem to address new challenges?
How do we design a plan we can all get behind?
Ideation workshops address those questions. The process was developed over 15 years at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. It’s simple, scalable, and works across sectors.
Every organization is responding to change now. Perhaps your team is good and could be even better. Or you sense something is “off” and you’re not sure what. You don’t have to guess or figure it out on your own. You may be thinking”
What, exactly, is going on? Is it the people? The process? The industry? The state of the world?
We’ve been at this a while. I know we could be better, but I’m not sure where to start.
Our team has the skills and good people, but we’re just not coming together.
I use world-class diagnostics that quickly reveal your team’s strengths and areas for growth, enabling you to focus on what’s working and address your trouble spots. We’ll work together so you know exactly what to do first, next, and later.
Whether you’re a large distributed team or a scrappy small one, you’ll get the insights you need to take your team to the next level.
Anne Heberger Marino, MSW is the Founder and Principal of Lean-to Collaborations, LLC, a team effectiveness and collaboration consultancy launched in 2020. She brings 20 years of experience working with universities, nonprofits, and organizations of all sizes across various disciplines and sectors. From ideation to implementation, Lean-to Collaborations helps clients build the structures and processes they need to address complex social, environmental, and technical challenges.
Our Fourfold Approach prepares diverse people to collaborate and generates many paths forward while connecting across ways of knowing & doing.
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“The workshop promoted conditions for researchers belonging to different fields & with different expertise to discuss at length about transformative, big picture concepts, methods, and ideas that could impact multiple fields of science”.
“Using powerful questions and always digging deeper, Anne pushes me the right amount out of my comfort zone. The sheer breadth and depth of her experience in life and work mean I can bring a range of issues to her and she always has a unique insight to give.”
Lean-to Collaborations is headquartered in Brunswick, Maine which was settled on the traditional territory of the Wabanaki Confederacy. We recognize and honor the current Tribes who comprise the Wabanaki Confederacy—the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, and Micmac peoples—who have stewarded this land throughout the generations. We respect the traditional values of these Tribes and affirm their inherent sovereignty in this territory. We support their efforts for land and water protection and restoration, and for cultural healing and recovery.
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