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Lea Simpson

Brink Foundation Announces Partnership with USAID to Boost Implementation Research in Global Education

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Flic Burgess

Building a different type of fund to transform literacy and numeracy in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Asad Rahman

“It's easier to sign off a £50m project here than it is to sign off a £50k one.”

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Abi Freeman

What we learned from designing and running a six-week Behavioural Innovation course

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Rob Hinchcliffe

An introduction to Behavioural Innovation

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Lea Simpson

Why complex global problems need ‘adaptive bureaucracies’ (and why that’s not an oxymoron)

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Abi Freeman

Nudging innovation: How to design enabling environments for real world change

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Miranda Dixon

Harnessing the collective: Why it’s easy to say, but difficult to do

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Abi Freeman

Agency Growth Stories: Abi Freeman on building Brink

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Lea Simpson

To create anything, first build a team

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Innovating internal comms at Brink: testing and learning towards positive change

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Lea Simpson

Hear this: why innovators need to be better listeners.

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Lea Simpson

I disagree: the dangerous business of sharing ideas and giving feedback

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Asad Rahman

Scaling impact in the real world

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Asad Rahman

Directing money to the right lever, to help people access oxygen

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Asad Rahman

Building high-trust teams to test edtech during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Asad Rahman

Bringing everyone onboard: using virtual reality in the International Criminal Court

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Sam Stockley-Patel

“Don’t learn about us, without us”

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Rob Hinchcliffe

How we changed our minds in 2023

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Lil Patuck

How the right stories help shift our thinking from probable to possible

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Kelley Rowe

The Future of Work in the Informal Economy

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Kelley Rowe

Early Insights about the Informal Economy in Kenya

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5 images that changed the way I think about organisational transformation

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Bryony Nicholson

Three things I learned from building a humanitarian innovation community

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Rob Hinchcliffe

Brink Foundation: Meet Magdalena Banasiak

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Lea Simpson

15 things Brinksters do to make better teams

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Rob Hinchcliffe

Brink Foundation: Meet Teresa Mbagaya

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Rob Hinchcliffe

Brink Foundation: Meet Kristoffer Gandrup-Marino

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Abi Freeman

We've launched a Foundation!

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To get better at changing things, get better at handling change

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David Vigoureux

ASToN Insights: what local authorities need to build their innovation capacity

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Ciku Mbugua

How citizens and the government can work together for change

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We're an Escape The City winner!

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Sam Stockley-Patel

Strength in numbers: changing minds and mindsets with data-driven stories

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Sam Stockley-Patel

The power of “we”: our emerging principles for collective intelligence

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World Wellbeing Week 2023

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Mental Health Awareness Week: we're making a commitment

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Miranda Dixon

“A collective worldview means getting from head to heart”

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Bryony Nicholson

Supporting local organisations following the Turkey-Syria earthquake

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Kelley Rowe

From algae to action: collective conversations on climate change

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Innovating internal comms at Brink: getting started

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Bryony Nicholson

What is the role of ritual in building resilient communities?

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Louise Watson

How to organise the international offsite of your dreams

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5 principles for transformative organisations

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James Wilkinson

Why East Africa, what’s exciting, what next

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Abi Freeman

Becoming Brink. Landing on Brink's model for global business

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Abi Freeman

Building Brink: remixing how we show up in the world

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Sam Stockley-Patel

What can subterranean subcultures teach us about collective intelligence and action?

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Adaptive management and innovation

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Asad Rahman

Venturing: How we work with funds, portfolios, and ideas to make a dent in the world

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Abi Freeman

36 questions to fall in love with your team

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Miranda Dixon

Raising unheard voices to influence decision making

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Transformative organisations: what if we do this right?

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Miranda Dixon

Decentralised community building in Web3 — “Is it all nonsense” or could this change the world?

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Abi Freeman

How to get people to do what you want: The secrets of incentives

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Lea Simpson

Building Brink: 30 times we swiped left on accepted wisdom

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Abi Freeman

Brink’s in the ESC top 100 🥳

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Abi Freeman

4 inbuilt biases that get in the way of innovation, and what to do about them

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Bryony Nicholson

Exploring how groups can work together today to create a brighter tomorrow

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Abi Freeman

Choosing without choosing

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Abi Freeman

B is for Benefit

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Abi Freeman

The Great Resignation: A pandemic that has changed our relationship with work

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Abi Freeman

Tell me, what’s one thing you’d love to know about your team members?

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Miranda Dixon

Harnessing the potential of the Collective

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Abi Freeman

How learning happens

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Alex Losneanu

From freeze to finish

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Gita Luz

Burnout beyond the individual: how workplaces are making us sick and how to change this

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Gita Luz

What can businesses do to tackle the burnout epidemic?

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Lea Simpson

Field notes from COP26 — how to fund ‘Innovation for All’

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Ciku Mbugua

A less W.E.I.R.D take on government adaptation: join us on our learning journey.

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