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A Conversation with William Snyder** Updated session description]
 * Framing the Network Leadership Challenge: Cases and Concepts

William M. Snyder, A.B., Harvard College; Ed.M., Harvard Graduate School of Education; Ph.D. in Organization Theory, University of Southern California Visiting Scholar, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2006-2007 Presenter Biography ** William M. Snyder writes and consults to help leaders organize action-learning networks that serve the common good. He has consulted for 25 years on large-scale change efforts in the private, public, and non-profit sectors with organizations such as AT&T, Colgate-Palmolive, Daimler-Chrysler, McKinsey & Company, the Veterans Administration, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Annie E. Casey Foundation. Bill is a global thought-leader on the topic of “communities of practice” – groups that facilitate learning, innovation, and collaborative action among practitioners with a shared passion. His research and consulting work focuses on civic communities of practice at local, national, and global levels. Selected reports on Bill Snyder's research and experience with multi-stakeholder networks ** Examples include: Framing the Leadership Challenge ** Bill will draw on his research on communities of practice and experiences with multi-sector civic networks to propose conceptual frameworks that highlight key leadership challenges and ways to address them: Why use intentional networks and what kind? What are key network leadership functions? How develop leadership capabilities? What are your organizing challenges?
 * Presenter **
 * Multi-stakeholder communities of practice (including residents, partner organizations, and other stakeholders) in struggling neighborhoods focused on helping families achieve economic success and prepare their young children to do well in school. [[|Client report summary pp. 6-12]]
 * A constellation of multi-stakeholder, economic-development communities in Chicago—focused on industry sectors such as biotech and telecommunications. [[|Client report - section on network structures, pp 12-25]]
 * Several multi-city communities of practice working on issues such as healthy families and reducing gun violence, sponsored by Vice President Gore’s Office of Reinventing Government. [[|Published monograph - sample network mini-case pp. 26-32]]
 * Initiative to form a global multi-stakeholder community on issues related to water quality and sanitation [[|client report]]. See related [|community for leaders of global, multi-stakeholder networks] working on topics such as microcredit, transparency, and sustainable forests

** Selected co-authored publications: ** "[|Communities of Practice: The Organizational Frontier]" (//Harvard Business Review//, 2000) [|Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge] (Harvard Business School Press, 2002) “[|Communities of Practice: A New Tool for Managers] ,” (in //Collaboration: Using Networks and Partnerships//, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003) “[|Our World as a Learning System],” (in //Create a Learning Culture: Strategy, Practice, and Technology//, Cambridge University Press, 2004) **Additional Presentation Materials:** Please click on the discussion tab at the top of this page or click [|here] to participate in a discussion forum about the William Snyder's approach. What questions do you have about William Snyder's approach? How do his ideas/approaches connect to the work you do? Other thoughts or questions?
 * Presentation slides for April 24 module: "[|Framing the network leadership challenge -- Cases and concepts]"
 * [|Expanded class outline - April 24 Network Leadership.doc]
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