STRATEGIES:
5 AREAS OF FOCUS AND SUPPORT
Once a decision is made to apply a RESET Communities approach, a community or neighbourhood can contract support and services or, if available, receive a sponsorship, to actively engage and be supported in each of the five strategies explained below:
Strategy 1:
Systems-Catalyst Leadership (Systems Orchestrators)
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Two areas of specialization are available, with options for formal certification:
1. Systems-Catalyst Leadership
2. Organizational Capacity Leadership
These programs are tailored for colleges, universities, and professional development contexts. They aim to produce neutral, competency-driven practitioners equipped to ensure social and systems change and innovation.
Competencies for SYSTEMS CATALYST LEADERSHIP build the capacity of neutral orchestrators and ecosystem builders (an emerging new discipline) who play a vital role in uniting and merging the collective wisdom of businesses, social purpose organizations, government entities, and community members. Not all individuals within an organization, business, government, or community will require these competencies (skills, knowledge, and attitudes) because they are focused on competencies identified as essential for transformative innovation and systems change in the broader community.
ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY LEADERSHIP for Social and Systems Change provides insights that enhance the future-readiness of non-profits, charities, co-operatives, and businesses by reframing their communities as ecosystems rather than a series of isolated silos, and ensuring their internal capacity for transformative change.
All learning uses a unique, practice-based approach, with peer-to-peer exchange as a key component, grounded in these competencies. Additionally, the learning is based on well-proven competencies (skills, knowledge, attitudes) that have been developed and tested over many years.
Strategy 2:
Collective Knowledge Exchange
This strategy adopts a relational marketing approach to energize social and systems innovation. By creating structured yet informal opportunities for networking and knowledge sharing, valuable insights and promising practices are easily shared peer-to-peer and across multiple networks. Together, we're fostering a vibrant learning ecosystem that accelerates innovation and inspires breakthrough ideas.
Strategy 3:
Resources for Strengthening Communities as Ecosystems
Designed to catalyze and amplify opportunities for social purpose enterprises and entrepreneurs, this strategy supports ventures through two critical phases: Impact Readiness assessment and Opportunity-Matching. By connecting social enterprises to private, public, and philanthropic capital and partnerships, this strategy ensures that innovative solutions can scale and achieve measurable impact.
Section 4:
Venture Building
Designed to catalyze and amplify opportunities for social purpose enterprises and entrepreneurs, this strategy supports ventures through two critical phases: Impact Readiness Assessment and Opportunity Matching. By connecting social enterprises with private, public, and philanthropic capital and partnerships, this strategy ensures innovative solutions can scale and deliver measurable impact.
Strategy 5:
Digital Systems Infrastructure
Leveraging IT systems and AI-driven tools, this strategy establishes the digital backbone for ongoing support of two interconnected networks: a (1) Community of Practice (CoP) for Systems Catalysts and an (2) local and regional Integrated Platforms connecting communities, neighbourhood members, and networks. Digital infrastructure enables coordination, learning, and real-time adaptation across the RESET ecosystem and to scale beyond.
R.E.S.E.T. Communities Collective increases responsiveness to complex challenges and opportunities by collaborating with multiple partners to provide a variety of support and services that enhance social, economic, and environmental well-being.
Individual and organizational future-readiness is supported increasing capacity for (1) community and stakeholder-led development, (2) systems-practices, (3) strategic foresight, and (4) digital optimization. We've learned these four components are necessary for the project and systems collaboration and informed decision-making we have experienced as being essential for transformative change and innovation.
Innovative approaches require being bold, perseverance, tenacity and a sprinkle of panic.
-- Michelle Baldwin
Many situations in life are similar to going on a hike: the view changes once you start walking. You don't need all the answers right now. New paths will reveal themselves if you have the courage to get started.
--James Clear
Leadership today is about courage. Courage to realize our challenges are complex and no one individual, organization, or sector can resolve them on their own. That means we have to let go of the idea that we alone have the answers. Instead, we need to strengthen our individual and organizational competencies in order to become sector connectors who call meetings before we have the answers, aren't intimidated by messy, and can ensure a culture where all voices are heard. Only then, can our collective gifts, experience, and wisdom be focused on building a better future for all.
--Brenda Herchmer
In times of change it is the learners who inherit the future. Those who have finished learning find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
-- Eric Hoffer
