Lauren Klein
Lauren Klein
Lauren has worked for many years as a community composer, strategist, leader, mentor and coach in formal organizations to help organizations identify, create, build, and cultivate communities. She helps coach business and community leaders to ignite their passion while unleashing their potential through technique sharing, individual learning and goal setting.
It’s like a muscle, if you practice and flex it, it can turn into a way to live.
A tenant of success in business is relationship nurturing, building, tending and sustaining. Yet in today’s wired world, it’s easy to spend too much...
Cultivating Athletic Communities: CrossFit Regulus use case
This is a quick scratch pad post to share a few community concepts to help you build healthy athletic communities. Mission and charter that extend...
The Change Games
Wearables, real time insights and feedback are here to stay. It is taking people by storm. Overwhelming, intrusive, and too much noise I’ve heard from...
Allowing structure to emerge is harder than it sounds
Many of our organizations have enterprise communication and collaboration systems in place. These systems are evolving and creating new communication possibilities. Yet,...
Blogging – how to get started?
Several people have asked me how to blog and get a style, so this is a brief attempt to share a few thoughts around...
Coloring outside the lines in marketing programs
Coloring inside the lines sounds familiar, right? Whether in the office, at home or in preschool, we often find ourselves being encouraged to keep ourselves...
Diversity in Social Business Programs and Authentic Leadership
I've seen some great traction over the years to harness the power of new technologies. Every day I learn about countless new software...
Change Management, a required work stream in Social Business
The Fremont Troll Break through results can only be realized in Communities if your social business strategy approach includes this work stream. Often the time...
HAT Trick for Social Business Strategy
I grew up in Michigan where hockey dominated every day conversation. It snowed most of the year and as soon as the ice froze,...
Courageous European Community Director
Randi Hognestad directs community and network events in Europe. Based in Norway, this tireless community weaver has deep connections throughout Europe. She has cultural...
Motoring Community Member Experience
Expectations were in fact exceeded during a recent experience as a member of the MINI community. It's time to enjoy a powdered donut The synchronous…
Born Leadership Legacy
Nothing more fulfilling than reading about how universities, organizations and community leaders are seeking out key qualities that resonate with those of us who...
Social Leaders must invite change, ambiguity and resiliency
HBR published on their blog an outstanding article titled, "This is Your Brain on Organizational Change" that inspired me as a coach as it...
Attributes of a Social Artist
Building relationships is something of an art; Etienne Wenger calls it Social Artistry. Someone who can scale the levels of tactical...
Social Leadership Core Competency – Diplomacy
Spicy Green Salsa Social Leadership is not a new term, rather something we have been doing for years in diplomacy. We look for ways...
Working with Fear in Community Conversations
Spice it up! I'm sure you have worked with someone who is resource protective, they operate out of fear or perhaps they just love a...
Placing VALUE in personal networks
Time of the Social Bloom As a social weaver, I think often about my networks. I do invest 10% of my time daily into...
People, Pull and the Possibilities
With all the new tools that foster serendipity and real time feedback, do we really need HR? It will be curious to see how...
Engaging HR in the community
Trying to get those HR 'types' to engage with your community program? Feeling frustrated as they are always too busy with annual review,...
WorkIN the Crowd
When you think of someone 'working the crowd,' popular science tells us to think about an athlete spiking the ball after a TD, or...