Jean Russell

As a founder of the thrivability movement, expert facilitator, and social ecosystem designer, Jean Russell is your guide to a thrivable world. Jean takes entrepreneurs, social innovators, and business builders on tours of network culture and navigates clients through the crucial questions of creating and nurturing teams and networks to develop healthy and productive collaborations. Convinced the crucial roadblock to flourishing is collaboration, Jean is driven by curiosity about how each of us can work and play together to make things that truly matter. Her quest to understand how groups operate has lead Jean to explore motivation, persuasion, and influence; flows and risk analysis; how to make a difference; and methods of collaboration. She curated Thrivability: A Collaborative Sketch in 2010 with 65 inspiring people. She currently writes passionately about Breakthroughs for a World that Works. She’s been dubbed ‘NurtureGirl’ for her skill in amplifying the power of others around her.