cstover@crcna.org Cindy Stover serves as the Canadian Justice Mobilizer for the Christian Reformed Church in North America. In this role, she supports Canadian churches and communities through learning experiences, relationship building, and resource development with a concentration on advocacy, Indigenous justice, climate care, and refugee justice. Becoming learner-centered has been a crucial paradigm shift for […]
lidianimri@gmail.com. Ledia is an urban planner who strongly believes in the human rights-based approach. She is an advocate for local communities, and a program lead skilled in project management, planning, and budging. Ledia has worked in the development sector for over than 10 years in a number of programs, and closely with communities large and […]
Hamzeh.smadi81@Gmail.com Hamza Atef Al-Smadi is the Director of the Ajloun District Directorate in the Greater Ajloun Municipality. He has a master’s degree in accounting from Ajloun National University and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Jerash Private University. He is incredibly proud to say that he has contributed 22 years of experience to the municipality. […]
For years, GLP’s core course (currently “Foundations of Dialogue Education”) included a set of guidelines around receiving and offering* feedback as well as a carefully sequenced feedback model. This approach to feedback has taken root and spread across GLP culture. Sample Feedback Guidelines: Be lavish, sincere, and specific in our affirmations. Offer suggestions in the […]
Dana joined Global Learning Partners in 2023 as a Board Member. Dana is Director of Learning and Innovation at New Moms. She gathers relevant research and promising approaches from the broader field of practice and facilitates program design improvement processes and innovations for New Moms’ services. She also shares out New Moms’ own learning and […]
Michelle joined Global Learning Partners in 2023 as a Board Member. The Adjacent Possible uses an innovative framework and process model called Learn, Innovate, Improve or LI2. Dr. Michelle Derr is the founder of The Adjacent Possible, led the development of LI2, and has used the model with great success in partnership with researchers and […]
The Situation How can a longstanding deeply respected organization smoothly transition leadership? How can a collaborative leadership approach build respect and trust, both internally and externally? How does a learning-centered organization nurture collaborative leadership? As the International Budget Partnership (IBP) prepares to welcome a new Executive Director, they have been thinking about how they can […]
I intentionally design to maximize learning. I conduct a needs assessment, asking select questions of participants and stakeholders, studying websites and key documents, and observing events and meetings of the client and small groups. I check my assumptions and work to align the steps of design to ensure the best content is being offered at […]
Mais.k3abneh@yahoo.com Mais holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Al-Hussein Bin Talal University. Despite her youthfulness – she has only been in this industry for a few short years – she has accomplished a great deal, taking on a variety of tasks and responsibilities and working hard. Mais is especially proud of being chosen […]
Balqisthaher@gmail.com In October 2017, Balqis was appointed Executive Director of the Municipality of Umm Al-Bsateen and continues to serve there today. She has extensive experience developing strategies, including planning the municipality’s first solid waste management plan. She started her journey there as an organization and building engineer, and quickly moved into the position of Head […]