Leena has been working to empower communities and individuals for over two decades. Passionate about social justice and creating equitable communities, Leena has leveraged this passion in service for organizations that include Global Vision (Kuala Lumpur), Big Brothers Big Sistersof Halton, and the Halton Poverty Roundtable. Leena is a trained community mediator and completed a Master's in Conflict Analysis & Management at Royal Roads University in 2012. Leena enjoys designing inclusive processes and facilitating spaces that are conducive to connection, communication, and collective action. She recently completed the Circle Way Practicum, a deep training in a body of work that draws on our collective, ancient, and inherent wisdom to gather inclusively. Leena hopes to mainstream “circle” as a collaborative process that teaches organizations and communities to work together more wholistically. Leena is a Collective Impact champion, having witnessed it's power to accelerate impact in her work at the Halton Poverty Roundtable, and looks forward to supporting communities in Canada to realize their collaborative goals to eliminate poverty in their respective communities. In her free-time, Leena enjoys yoga, reading, spending time outside, and dabbling in creative arts. Her most recent home project goal is to become proficient enough with a sewing machine to be able to sew a Halloween costume for her daughters this fall. Leena is proud to call Burlington, Ontario home and is raising two future social change agents with her husband Sanjay.
Community change initiatives are working on a diversity of issues across the country, such as early childhood development, health care, education, poverty and homelessness, immigration and workforce development, but evaluating the progress and impacts of these initiatives is an ever-present challenge.
Join us for a new evaluation workshop where we dive into one of the most critical challenges in today’s evaluation landscape – designing evaluations for systems change.
How can you build buy-in for a vision for community change, help a stalled effort get un-stuck, and test ideas before making
This interactive workshop is designed to share how communities and organizations are using the practice of prototyping to advance their work, practical examples of forms of prototyping that suit common challenges, and help participants build plans for how they can start prototyping their ideas
How can you build buy-in for a vision for community change, help a stalled effort get un-stuck, and test ideas before making
This interactive workshop is designed to share how communities and organizations are using the practice of prototyping to advance their work, practical examples of forms of prototyping that suit common challenges, and help participants build plans for how they can start prototyping their ideas
How can you build buy-in for a vision for community change, help a stalled effort get un-stuck, and test ideas before making
This interactive workshop is designed to share how communities and organizations are using the practice of prototyping to advance their work, practical examples of forms of prototyping that suit common challenges, and help participants build plans for how they can start prototyping their ideas
How can you build buy-in for a vision for community change, help a stalled effort get un-stuck, and test ideas before making
This interactive workshop is designed to share how communities and organizations are using the practice of prototyping to advance their work, practical examples of forms of prototyping that suit common challenges, and help participants build plans for how they can start prototyping their ideas
Sarnia, ON | September 27
In this one day workshop learn how to engage and deepen your community in order to build a common agenda for large scale change. Paul Born will share not only the fundamental principles of Collective Impact, he will provide key insights as one of North America’s top Community Engagement leaders on how Deepening Community can sustain us as leaders and produce the outcomes we so desire.
