June Holley
Network Weaver
"Networks are a field of potential for action"
June has been weaving economic and community networks for almost 20 years. Back then, she discovered complexity science and became intrigued with the phenomenon of transformation. How could communities change in ways that would make them good places for everyone?
WIth others in Appalachian Ohio, she began a stream of experimentation to discover how to encourage many more people to start and then expand businesses. With these entrepreneurs, she mobilized dozens of area organizations to collaborate and create an environment that would help these businesses innovate and work together.
After twenty years as executive director of the Appalachian Center for Economic Networks (www.acenetworks.org), she stepped down to devote her energies to helping communities around the globe form Smart Networks by training and supporting Network Weavers. She helps clients use Smart Network Analyzer social network mapping software to understand and enhance their networks.
Her recent Smart Networks projects have involved communities, regions, statewide collaborations, healthcare and hospital systems, national learning and innovation networks, and large corporations.
Clients include the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the United Nations, the Association for Enterprise Opportunity, the Ohio University Voinovich Center, Kaiser Permanente, the Plexus Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Millennium Project, Interaction Institute for Social Change, the Veterans Administration, FAIMER, the Center for Working Families and many others.
She is available as a keynote speaker, workshop presenter, network mentor or consultant on Network Weaving projects. She often partners on social network analysis projects with Valdis Krebs (www.orgnet.com), Jack Ricchiuto (www.designinglife.com) and the Plexus Institute (www.plexusinstitute.com), an organization committed to the application of complexity science to help people create healthier communities.
Visit her blog at www.networkweaving.com/blog
June's Articles and Worksheets
• Smart Communities through Network Weaving
• Mapping the MRSA Prevention Efforts at the Pittsburgh VA Hospitals NEW
• Network Weaver Checklist NEW
• Example of How to Present Data on Entreprenurship Through Graphs
• Transforming Your Regional Economy Through Uncertainty and Surprise: Learning from Network Theory, Complexity Science and the Field
• Building a Regional Entrepreneurship Network: A Guide to Action
• Network Evaluation
June's Presentations (most are very large files and will take some time to download)
• Regional Flavor
• Introduction to Network Weaving From presentation at Indiana Leadership Conference
• Introduction to Smart Networks (From presentation in Toronto, November 2007)
• Introduction to Network Weaving (Toronto)
• Moving to Action (Toronto)
• Self-Organizing (Toronto)
• The ACEnet Story (From presentation at Georgia Entrepreneurship Conference)
• Network Structure for Self-Organizing Communities
June's Resume and Bio
• June's Resume
• June's Bio
