While working at the Academies, a committee member once exclaimed, “You’re like a social worker for scientists!” That’s a pretty accurate description. (The committee member didn’t realize it, but Anne really does have a Master’s degree in social work from the University of Pennsylvania.)
Lean-to Collaborations builds on Anne’s 12-year career at the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine as a senior program director and program officer for the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) – a $15 year, $40 million interdisciplinary team-based conference and grants program. She is co-author of Collaborations of Consequence – the official summary of NAKFI’s history, model, and results- published in 2018 by National Academies Press.
Evaluating, facilitating, and convening, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and convergence research teams have been the focus of Anne’s work for 20 years- since her first research position at Cornell University. Her training in facilitation and awareness-based systems change was inspired by the needs of researchers she encountered during her career. Anne uses techniques, tools, and experiences from the Art of Hosting, Theory U, World Cafe’, and systemic team coaching in her client engagements.
Anne is Membership Chair for the International Network for the Science of Team Science, a member of the International Association of Facilitators, a Lifetime Member of Girls Scouts of the USA, and volunteers as a coach for Girls on the Run.