This solo yet collaborative venture has given me the opportunity to do what I love in the service of others looking to make a difference in their corner of their world, and I hope I’ll get to keep doing just that for years to come.
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I don’t think LinkedIn’s green label serves me since I’m not looking for formal employment. I highly value my autonomy, flexibility, and collaborative potential to help so many more when not tethered to one organization.
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At JW Collaborative, we leverage our deep experience with health care systems, perspectives from diverse sectors, and strategic design methods to facilitate creative collaboration and the adoption of innovative ideas. Our mission is to align health care strategy with real human needs – enhancing health access, experience, and outcomes through collaborative, creative, and capacity-building approaches.
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Some people jump; I was pushed…and I leaned into it.
There are four key things I’ve learned about myself and being a solopreneur since then, which, if you’re considering or facing a bold move, I hope might help you.
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Our mindsets set the tone for how we create value for and with clients and partners. It’s not just about a hand-off of expertise codified in a deliverable but a transference of new ways of working, transformative mindsets, and design methods that can lead to more sustainable change for those ultimately responsible for it. We share eight mindsets that drive us and create value with collaborators.
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We deploy human-centered systems design - an approach that uses deep inquiry, empathy, collaboration, iteration, systems thinking, and holistic execution planning - to elevate intrapreneurial and entrepreneurial leaders in health, civic, and social good service organizations who aspire to drive real change for their unique customers and constituents.
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With prototyped thinking about my service offering already in hand, I iterated, prioritized high value activities, and have been getting my message out into the world as quickly as possible in order to foster new connections and get feedback that I’ve used to tweak and improve each new communiqué. With that in mind, here are the top four insights (so far) I’ve discovered in building my own independent consulting business that I think can inform if not inspire others considering a similar leap…
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