Amp Team Diary: November 2018

Each month, members of the WEAll Amplification team (Amp team) share what they’ve been working on, and their priorities for the coming month.

Find out more about our team members here 

Ana Gomez 

• What’s kept you busy in November?
  • Just like last month, I’ve been onboarding and meeting with new members – the network is growing all the time!
  • Creating new ways for members to connect with WEAll and each other – it’s great to see lots of activity in our new Facebook group
  • Developing ideas and plans for local level engagement with WEAll

  November highlight:

  • All the wonderful, energising conversations I’ve had with new and potential members

  December priorities:

  • Further development of the WEAll local hubs plan
  • Spending important time together as a team in Glasgow

Lisa Hough-Stewart 

What’s kept you busy in November?

• Planning events with Katherine around the launch of her book in January, where we’ll invite people to discuss advancing the wellbeing economy in Scotland
• Building the website for NESI Global Forum 2019 and getting comms ready for the launch of ticket sales
• Planning the development of WEAll Citizens

November highlight:

• Having energetic meetings with Isabel to develop ideas for WEAll Citzens

December priorities:

• Having a scoping meeting with members to develop Citizens
• Launching ticket sales for NESI and promoting it to the world
• Spending time together with the team in Glasgow

Katherine Trebeck

What’s kept you busy in November?

• A trip to Rio where I was so inspired by the CollaborAmerica conference, it was an honour to deliver a keynote talk there. I also had the chance to catch up with the wonderful This Is Not The Truth project
• Travelling to Korea for the OECD Future of Wellbeing event – I was part of panel discussions on creating a wellbeing economy
• Taking forward our narrative work, getting ready for collaborative meetings in Lancaster in the new year

November highlight:

• Being there for the launch of the Wellbeing Economy Governments initiative in Korea, very proud to see this come to fruition after years of involvement with its development

December priorities:

• Pursuing fundraising opportunities, especially some exciting opportunities in Scotland

A rare month without travel, and the rest is much needed!

Stewart Wallis

What’s kept you busy in November?

• A big focus on governance, working with members to finalise a proposal for decision making and strategy within WEAll
• A fundraising push with a particular focus on USA based trusts
• Meeting and introducing to the Amp team new partners in the business and finance areas
• Contributing to the Research Cluster alongside Katherine including pursuing contacts with the T20 group (Think tank 20)
• Contributing to the development of our Citizens work, alongside Lisa
• Working on a Technology chapter for a new book edited by key members of the Research Cluster
• Presenting an hour long webinar for a catholic TV station with huge online audience

November highlight:

• Really constructive meetings about governance – it has been a pleasure collaborating with our members and learning from them

December priorities:

• Finalising the governance plans with the wider group of members
• Major focus on fundraising

Michael Weatherhead

What’s kept you busy in November?

• Development of content for NESI Global Forum 2019 working with an excellent group of contributors from the WEAll membership. The programme is shaping up nicely
• Working with the business cluster to develop two business guide proposals
• Co-designing the process for creation of a WEAll leadership toolbox
• Negotiating the legal hosting of WEAll for 2019

November highlight:

• Working with the content group for NESI Global Forum, and learning about new collaboration tools

December priorities:

• Leading some productive team days in Glasgow
• Having the NESI Forum format finalised and sub-groups decided for working on details of the Forum in the New Year.
• Taking the business cluster proposals to funders