Areas of Expertise

Common areas for which WE in the World writes, speaks and provides strategic consultation and support:

Equity and Racial Justice

Structural racism and other inequities
Partnering with people with lived experience of inequity
Stories to system change

Health Equity, Population and Public Health

Addressing structural racism and other inequities in health
Well-being
Mental health and addictions

Leading from Mutual Abundance

Creating generative sustainability
Creating abundance through community transformation

Community transformation

Supporting community coalitions to make effective change
Shifting how we relate, create change and unlock abundance in communities
The relationship of place in health equity

Advancing an Equitable Economy

The role of businesses in building a just and restorative economy
Policies to advance an equitable economy
Build social entrepreneurship to advance an equitable economy

Equitable Measurement and Evaluation

Developing and using meaningful measures
Partnering with communities to measure and evaluate change
Measuring well-being and equity
Measuring system change

Change Management

Shifting mindsets
Creating change in difficult contexts
How all of us can contribute to changing the system

Services

Consulting and Thought Leadership

WE help organizations and agencies working to design meaningful system change to advance well-being and equity. We draw on a network of over 100+ skilled changemakers to build the right team to meet your needs.

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Creating Real Change

We know that creating real change can be hard. If you are serious about creating meaningful change and need support, we can walk alongside you on your change journey in a way that helps you design better system change and builds your internal capacity to implement and sustain change.

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Speaking and Writing

WE help you engage your audience to be inspired around a deeper vision and practical action for meaningful change. Dr. Somava Saha has spoken on panels with the Dalai Lama, and Angela Davis, appeared on Sanjay Gupta and CNN and keynoted conferences and lectures around the world.

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Measurement, Evaluation, and Improvement

We help teams and communities identify what matters to them, how they can measure that in traditional and nontraditional ways, and set up data systems to implement change and track improvement

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Capacity Building

We believe everyone has a piece of the puzzle needed for the healing of the world. When we engage in capacity building at the request of organizations and communities, we do so knowing that we will gain from them and will complement the strengths that people and groups bring.

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WE Social Transformation Interns, Accompaniers and Fellows

Whether you are early in your career, mid-career, or an advanced change leader, we welcome you to become part of a community that is learning from one another and growing together.

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Consulting and Thought Leadership

WE help organizations and agencies working to design meaningful system change to advance well-being and equity. We draw on a network of over 100+ skilled changemakers to build the right team to meet your needs.

Examples of our consultation work include:

framework development and application simulation development
strategic consultation to help you design your strategy
connecting to tools to support your strategy
connecting to bright spots and effective practices gleaned from our 25+ years of experience in this work
measuring and evaluating your strategy

EXAMPLES

Health equity framework developed for CDC and Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Methodist Healthcare Ministries, Texas – interrupting the cycle of intergenerational poverty in the South of Texas
WIN Network policy database to advance an equitable well-being economy

Creating Real Change

We know that creating real change can be hard. If you are serious about creating meaningful change and need support, we can walk alongside you on your change journey in a way that helps you design better system change and builds your internal capacity to implement and sustain change.

WE can help you lead the change process, bringing inspiration, practical know-how, and just in time coaching to help you lead transformative and effective change, building from your strengths and assets. WE help changemakers around the world connect with infrastructure and resources to create real change.

EXAMPLES

RISE initiative – advancing an equitable resilience to COVID
ARISE initiative – creating community conditions for civic capacity and equity in Illinois
Transforming the system of mental health and addictions in Delaware

Speaking and Writing

WE help you engage your audience to be inspired around a deeper vision and practical action for meaningful change. Dr. Somava Saha has spoken on panels with the Dalai Lama, and Angela Davis, appeared on Sanjay Gupta and CNN and keynoted conferences and lectures around the world.

WE can also join you in writing projects, leveraging a wide range of content experts. Whether you are writing for a practitioner audience, an academic audience or the popular press, we can join you in a way that supports and strengthens a collective contribution.
Email we@weintheworld.org to request a talk or support with writing. Please include the name, audience and date of your event, as well as whether you are able to pay an honorarium. All honorariums support WE in the World to advance well-being and equity.

SPEAKING EXAMPLES

WRITING EXAMPLES

Measurement, Evaluation, & Improvement

We help teams and communities identify what matters to them, how they can measure that in traditional and nontraditional ways, and set up data systems to implement change and track improvement

Measurement and Improvement

We can help you identify change strategies that demonstrate improvement. We can help you both assess where you are in the transformation journey and the effect of your impact.

Evaluation

In partnership with the Dawn Chorus Group, we support real-time evaluation strategies that help you course correct in real-time. This includes ways to evaluate your own processes as an organization or coalition and ways to evaluate the change you are seeking to create in the world.

EXAMPLES

Measurement, Learning and Evaluation chapter of the Springboard for Equitable Recovery and Resilience
Office of the Surgeon General Community Health and Economic Prosperity Report Measurement and Evaluation chapter
WIN Measures

Capacity Building

We believe everyone has a piece of the puzzle needed for the healing of the world.

When we engage in capacity building at the request of organizations and communities, we do so knowing that we will gain from them and will complement the strengths that people and groups bring.

EXAMPLES

Capacity building to develop clinical community linkages to advance upstream community equity strategies in Rhode Island
Advancing a practical antiracism curriculum for emerging primary care leaders in California
WE WIN Together Racial Justice Community to build capacity for structural and systemic change

WE Social Transformation Interns, Accompaniers & Fellows

Whether you are early in your career, mid-career, or an advanced change leader, we welcome you to become part of a community that is learning from one another and growing together. We would love to know your piece of the puzzle.

You will also be among the people we turn to when opportunities arise to advance this work. Email us at we@weintheworld.org and tell us about yourself if you’re interested. Please include your areas of strength as well as the places you would like to grow.