A Call for “Slow-Thinking” The Care and Feeding of the Human Brain in the Age of AI By Malaika Cheney-Coker A much-needed wake-up call or the provocations of an alarmist?  Experts and AI pundits have been choosing these and other lenses to interpret Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s r ecent statement  that AI could wipe out half of entry-level white collar jobs in one to five years. But within the swirl of opinions and the unknowns on how the technology will develop and be adopted

By Ena Taguiam and Darnesha Tabor What Happens When You Invite AI Into an Outcome Evaluation? Last month, we wrapped up WomenStrong International’s outcome evaluation , which explored two main questions: (1) how are organizations building strength and resilience given WomenStrong’s support, and, (2) in what ways have partners changed over the past few years. Given the subtleties of what we were classifying as outcomes – changes within organizations that may not yet have manif

In times of crisis, organizations must tap all their people assets  by Malaika Cheney-Coker Together She came to us with the confidence of the uninitiated, expecting that we, her higher ups would have a plan. It was 2020, the year pandemonium broke loose—the pandemic, then the racial reckoning in the U.S. after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Companies, already scrambling to adjust to work-from-home mandates and financial upheaval, now had to formulate long-overdue

By Malaika Cheney-Coker In times of great upheaval or uncertainty, say pandemics or life-altering presidential elections, an inevitable cliche rears its head. It goes something like this – that we can create something new and desirable out of the muck. We’ll put emphasis here on the word “create” and its implication that, rather than grit our teeth and endure till the good times eventually roll in, we can play a role in parting the gloom. We can craft, feather by feather, the

By Abbie Cohen You know the person I’m talking about–the one with the mental map of who’s connected to whom and who you should talk to for what. Chances are, someone like this exists in your area of interest, whether work or play–or maybe you are that person.  For me, that person was Hilary King, my former professor and Director of Special Projects at Community Farmers Markets and Associate Director of the Masters in Development Practice program at Emory University. Her exten

By Darnesha Tabor and Malaika Cheney-Coker Is Gen AI a worthy brainstorming partner? For months we’ve been exploring this question through the development and launch of our Gen AI-aided ideation workshop , designed to help teams incorporate Gen AI into their creative problem-solving processes. So, naturally,  we were intrigued by this Harvard Business Review article, Don’t Let Gen AI Limit Your Team’s Creativity , on the same topic. Kian Gohar and his co-researcher, Jeremy Ut