Jean Russell (also known as NurtureGirl) helps individuals, families and organizations find their way to more fulfilling futures.
She blogs at Thrivable.net. You'll also find her on Twitter as @NurtureGirl, @Thrivable and @Thrivability.
Jean joined us for What Is Thrivability?
BIO:
Jean Russell is a facilitator and social ecosystem designer. As your guide to a thrivable world, Jean takes entrepreneurs, social innovators, and business builders on tours of network culture. She navigates clients through the crucial questions of creating and nurturing teams and networks to develop healthy and productive collaborations.
"Jean Russell is a visionary poet and master of network dynamics. She's been a great teacher to me. I now have a next generation blueprint and operating principles for the growth of my tribe. " Michael Margolis, Dean, Story University, Founder, Get Storied
Convinced the crucial roadblock to flourishing is collaboration, Jean is driven by curiosity about how each of us can work (and play) better together to make things that matter. Her quest to understand how groups operate and be useful has lead Jean to explore:
- motivation, persuasion, and influence (trained in neuro-linguistic programming and coaching)
- flows and risk analysis (via international finance),
- how to make a difference (specifically philanthropy - as co-founder of donor education leader, Inspired Legacies, as well as social entrepreneurship coach and advisor)
- methods of collaboration (facilitation of small groups and in the tech world designing online community spaces with game dynamics).
As a founder of the thrivability movement and a premier expert on collective thriving, Jean speaks to and with change agents, innovators, builders, and edge-riders from Malmo to Melbourne, and London to San Francisco (the not-so-secret-hub of network culture). Demonstrating collaboration, she curated, Thrivability: A Collaborative Sketch in 2010 with 65 inspiring people. She currently writes passionately about Breakthroughs for a World that Works.
Her super-hero skill: amplifying the power of others around her and was thus dubbed “NurtureGirl” online.
