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We are growing a global network to support world-changing projects.

 

We hack the Social DNA of human economies, businesses and institutions to create patterns that work better, and spaces to help people build even better patterns.

 

There's an abundance of people trying to make the world a better place who are feeling like they have to swim against the mainstream current to do so. Emerging Leader Labs is trying to help them improve the odds of their success by providing spaces where there's room to build your visions because all your energy isn't spent wrestling with the broken stuff.

 

Nodes in our network can be of a few different types: Clubs, Labs, Incubators and Agencies.

Emerging Leader Clubs

Any group of people who gather together to explore how to make the world a better place can become an Emerging Leader Club.  All you need to start a Club is a group of friends, peers, high school students, college students, professionals, or whatever. 

 

The core element is that you gather regularly to listen, share and nourish each other's worldchanging visions. We provide some recommendations about the structure of the meetings, but you're free to refine and revise them to work best for your group. You can also share the meeting structures you create or the ideas and projects you invent with others through our web site (in development).

Emerging Leader Labs

At some point, some folks are ready to move from talk to action. To become an Emerging Leader Lab, you need to have a space for people to come together to work on their projects together.  Since our model is set up to operate this kind of workspace in a gift economy, you still don't need to have a legal entity or bank account, but you do need a Source Team with the kind of social capital it takes to pull together the resources to make it happen.

 

[more about the "special sauce," cohorts, training program, and extended stay for project work.]

Emerging Incubators

[integrating with the commercial economy and transitioning some portion of projects toward becoming financially self-sustaining or even profitable. Many projects may continue to operate best in the gift economy. Social Enterprise Incubator.]

Emerging Agencies

[Advanced tracking systems to be able to extend financial capacities to clubs, labs or projects that don't have their own legal entities or bank accounts. Transparency & auditabilty.]

Our Network: The Larger Ecosystem

[resource and information sharing across the clubs/labs/incubators/agencies... Large scale gift economies]

Additional Background

Emerging Leader Labs has roots in a various previous projects of its founders such as: Dream Team Enterprises, The MetaCurrency Project, Superhero School, Sceneverse.  The basic approach was first voiced at a social enterprise conference in 2010, by Arthur Brock.

 

The 2012 Seed Project was a prototype Lab session in which we prepared the ground for regular cycles of incoming participants at our initial location in Chatham, New York.

Some Other Juicy Resources

Also, you can see the story as presented by Venessa Miemis. 

View an emerging picture of the interwoven story lines currently in play, at ELL Story Map page.