Convening for Impact: Designing Participatory Solutions That Scale
Track
The Value of Culture & Place
Format
Skills Lab (Up to 3 Facilitators/Speakers)
Speakers
- NamePatricia Neal
- TitleCo-founder and board member
- OrganizationCenter for Purposeful Leadership
- NameCraig Neal
- TitleCo-founder, Originator, The Art of Convening
- OrganizationCenter for Purposeful Leadership
- NameYifang Daisy Fifer
- TitleFacilitator, Coach, Advocate
- OrganizationSTUF United Fund
Description
At SOCAP Global, where relationships drive deals and ideas become action, this interactive lab invites participants to co-create new models of convening (meetings, gatherings, conversations) that better serve a complex, interconnected impact ecosystem.
Together, we will identify breakdowns in current spaces—power dynamics, exclusion, shallow engagement—and explore how they limit capital flow and innovation. Participants will prototype more inclusive, participatory convening formats that foster alignment and co-investment, and practice methods that ensure every voice contributes to stronger outcomes. Ideal for funders, ecosystem builders, and community leaders ready to shift from transactional interactions to transformational partnerships.