Paul Born
community engagement and collective impact practitioner
Why they matter for gatherings
Paul Born is a community engagement and collective impact practitioner focused on building networks and fostering collaboration. They work spans community organizing, social innovation, and systems change, documented through nine books.
Facilitators and event designers should study Born's work to understand strategies for aligning diverse stakeholders toward shared goals. His approach offers tools for creating gatherings that drive sustainable, community-led impact.
Born's method of Collective Impact Convening emphasizes structured collaboration across sectors to address complex social challenges.
Here is how those methods work in practice.
The methods, ready to run
Named methods, and the exercises in our library that put them to work.
Collective Impact Convening
And here is where you can watch them run.
Where you can see them practiced
Gold-set agendas that visibly put these methods to work.
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