Christine Whitney Sanchez has collaborated with leaders across four continents to build the capacity for distributed leadership and conscious collaboration. The creator of “Methods for Strategic Collaboration,” Christine is an international pioneer in blending large-scale change methods such as Appreciative Inquiry, World Café, Open Space Technology, Polarity Mapping and virtual collaboration tools to deepen communication and liberate self-organization.

She has led and virtually coordinated dozens of corporate, government and nonprofit groups in delivering large-scale change events and has trained hundreds of facilitators around the world in strength-based approaches for self-organizing in their own communities. Christine has facilitated some of the largest intergenerational conversations in the world at the 2005 and 2008 Girl Scout National Conventions where she invited over thirteen thousand girls and adults into conversations that matter.