"Be impeccable with your words." Of The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (Don Miguel Ruiz), this one has stuck with me the…
Adriane Johnson-WilliamsDecember 3, 2021
I started this year as a single member LLC with no employees and three clients. I am ending the year with one employee, 4 contractors,…
Adriane Johnson-WilliamsDecember 18, 2020
Serving on a nonprofit board is a job for which one does not get paid. Saying it’s volunteer work seems to fall just shy of…
Adriane Johnson-WilliamsMarch 23, 2020
On February 25, 2020, The Commercial Appeal of Memphis, TN published an article with the title, “How 3 Memphis companies are making diversity and inclusion…
Adriane Johnson-WilliamsMarch 16, 2020
Something about results-based work and continuous improvement practice has always made me a little uncomfortable. Part of me finds measurement, tracking, and accountability appealing. Another…
Adriane Johnson-WilliamsMarch 10, 2020
Collaborating toward collective impact is risky business. We have defined collective impact as an end. It is the sustained dramatic change we are working toward…
Adriane Johnson-WilliamsJanuary 10, 2020
Collective impact is an increasingly popular concept. It is inherently appealing that otherwise intractable problems can be resolved if everyone joins together to solve them.…
Adriane Johnson-WilliamsJanuary 10, 2020
“This isn’t new.” “We’ve been doing this for years.” “This is just the next step.” “You’re building on what we’ve already been doing.” These same…
Adriane Johnson-WilliamsAugust 15, 2016
The first time I facilitated a Collaborative Action Network meeting, I knew I was in a room full of people who wanted dramatic change in…
Adriane Johnson-WilliamsJuly 7, 2016
