Jérôme Bourgeon recently offered a simple image that has stayed with us: “For me, compasses go with maps and lighthouses. Sometimes the lighthouse is clear enough to give direction. When the weather is blurry or bad, the compass also comes into action.” It gave another way to understand a question we have been carrying for … Continue reading What kinds of learning communities do we need for the times ahead?
The Collab Folks in 2025 towards 2026
As 2025 comes to a close, after the rooms have emptied and the last conversations have trailed off, we find ourselves pausing — not to announce something new, but to mark a moment that feels quietly significant for The Collab Folks.
The Collab Folks Newsletter – Feb 2023
In our last update, we reviewed three important themes from 2022: playing and learning, emotions, thoughts, communication, and movement. Since then, we have some new information to share. The Collab Folks v7.0 will focus on two activities this year with two partners. First, we are bringing back our internal learning dojo where we can practise … Continue reading The Collab Folks Newsletter – Feb 2023
The Collab Folks in 2022 towards 2023
We trust that you had a meaningful 2022 and are enjoying the break in anticipation of 2023. We would like to use this opportunity to update how The Collab Folks at 7 years old continues to learn about learning as a collaborative network. Our play is a little more complex now bringing ideas to reality … Continue reading The Collab Folks in 2022 towards 2023
Choose your learning adventure with us in 2022
With everything that has happened in the world, it is easy to look back at 2021 as the year we would rather forget. Thankfully, we were fortunate to work with you and our clients across a spectrum of work Supporting WeCan Adademy via #COWTOPIA Community sessions.Supporting Baan Dada Children's Home via Product Tonic Lab Cohort 1 … Continue reading Choose your learning adventure with us in 2022
Enable active listening to manage challenges [Make Meaningful Work Series]
I’ve known Daniel Szuc & Josephine Wong for just over a decade. What started as a conversation about better patterns & practices for user experience maturity back in 2011 morphed into a series of interactions via the community of practices in our learning portfolios. Most recently since 2017, we started sharing our observations about patterns in leadership and team development … Continue reading Enable active listening to manage challenges [Make Meaningful Work Series]
The Collab Folks in 2021 towards 2022
A quick update on our progress this year. We are grateful to continue the practice of checking in with each other and for our clients who trust us to coach their teams towards better results. Since our last update in Feb 2021, the partners have worked together to facilitate A public Online Agile Fundamentals workshop … Continue reading The Collab Folks in 2021 towards 2022
The Collab Folks in 2021
Last year has certainly been a year where many individuals and teams face uncertainty and unplanned effects from a global pandemic. I hope you are keeping well and taking the time to consider the pandemic’s impact towards health, economies and individuals. When The Collab Folks was first conceived as an idea in July 2015 to … Continue reading The Collab Folks in 2021
The Collab Folks in 2017
The Collab Folks was founded on the hypothesis that a blended focus on Product Management, User Experience and Agility benefits the collaborative paired coaching manner in which we engage with clients. Two years later, this concept has been validated and our vision enlarged to include a few new areas with the expansion towards a Learning … Continue reading The Collab Folks in 2017
The Collab Folks – Update for 2015
The seeds of The Collab Folks were sown in Michael’s heart during a workshop on Positive Design Impact by Daniel Szuc and Jo Wong in mid-2013. Soon after, he resolved to place a greater emphasis in his day-to-day coaching of the product managers, designers and engineers that he worked with. If he could better understand … Continue reading The Collab Folks – Update for 2015
The Collab Folks 