Emily Lesh facilitating an action planning session with the eight organizations that founded the Calumet Manufacturing Sector Partnership.
Emily facilitating a conversation between Chicago's Calumet Region Superintendents & manufacturing leaders working together to identify skill needs and gaps in the region.
A business-to-business networking tour after Emily Lesh facilitated a meeting of over 40 manufacturing leaders from MADE in Central PA.
Emily Lesh designed and coached partners through the launch of the Central Nebraska Manufacturing Partnership.
One of several national trainings Emily Lesh helped design for the Next Generation Sector Partnerships Community of Practice.
Emily Lesh facilitating discussions about how to increase opportunities for post-secondary careers in manufacturing in Chicago.
Emily Lesh delivering training for the South Carolina Department of Employment & Workforce in Columbia, SC.
Emily Lesh delivering training on how to build regional public-private partnerships for the Nebraska Department of Labor.
We’re building a sustainable and equitable future by bringing people and resources together to solve complex problems.
About Collaborative Solutions
We focus on the intersection of education and economic challenges to forge bold and sustainable solutions for today and the future.
No individual or organization can solve today’s social, environmental, and economic challenges in isolation.
As a society we are at an all-hands-on-deck moment.
Collaborative Solutions helps ensure the hands are coordinated, efficient, and collaborative.
What We Do
We design customized processes to facilitate, coach, and manage projects for clients focused on forging a new future. This customized process can include:
Assisting stakeholders in clearly defining the problem they are working to solve
Identifying available resources (people, financial, and other)
Determining the scope of expertise needed and bringing that expertise to the table
Engaging influencers and stakeholders
Building coalitions
Finding and synthesizing relevant data and research
Developing common goals and action plans
Executing plans to achieve results
Measuring concrete results
Telling the story
Collaborative Solutions provides an experienced birds-eye view to identify the essential expertise, bring it together, and eliminate what is not mission-critical.
Collaborative Solutions Founder, Emily Lesh facilitated the process of bringing together 8 regional organizations with the common goals to support the manufacturing workforce and economic development for the region. After launch, she continually coached the Partnership and helped them establish action teams that are having an impact on jobseekers, employees, and businesses in the region. Learn more at Calumetmfg.org.
Emily Lesh has a track record as a government and non-profit leader with an expertise in building diverse coalitions and managing successful projects that result in social change. Learn more about Emily and the skills, experience, and perspective she would bring to your project.
Collaborative Solutions helps clients find solutions to the toughest challenges.
Services We Provide
Collaborative Solutions specializes in bringing people and assets together to co-create solutions to education, environmental, and economic problems. Services include:
Stakeholder engagement
Training delivery
Group and process facilitation
Research and data collection
Action plan development
Project management
Event curation
Public policy development, analysis, and implementation