Coalition Convening

Scaling Impact

Co-Hosts: DiscoverE, National Girls Collaborative Project, and STEM Education Coalition

Our goal is big – In engineering and technology, we will create a world where everyone is welcome, and we will solve the workforce crisis.  

To do this we must collaboratively scale our impact. It’s easy to say. But hard to do.  

“As networks of organisations, individuals and groups seeking to play our best roles in relation to each other, anything is possible.” – Nick Stanhope

Join us and leaders from Spring Impact, an international firm helping mission-driven organizations scale up their impact sustainably by striking at the very root of the problem, for a productive day of exploring opportunities to align our work and accelerate our progress.

Meeting Objectives: 

• Inspire hope and momentum by sharing examples of organizations who have achieved impact at scale through movement building and systems change scale pathways. 
• Engage coalition members in discussions that create a common understanding of how to achieve impact at scale.
• Foster key scaling mindsets including “never scale alone” and “collaboration by default”. 
• Identify aspects of existing systems that create barriers to achieving impact and discuss solutions that we as a coalition can invest in.

Overview Agenda

8:30 – 9:00       Registration and Light Breakfast 

9:00 – 9:35       Welcome and Introductions

9:35 – 10:45     Never Scale Alone and Overview of Core Scale Concepts

10:45 – 11:00   Break

11:00 – 12:00    Aligning on the Problem and Mapping the Ecosystem

12:00 – 1:15    Lunch and Keynote (tbd)

1:15 – 2:15     Getting Scale Ready

2:15 – 2:30     Break

2:30 – 2:45     Public/Private Partnerships and Q&A 

2:45 – 3:00     Key Takeaways

3:00 – 3:30     Next Steps and Closing Remarks

Speakers (as of August 28, 2024, more to be added):

• Alexandra Alonso, Senior Consultant, Spring Impact 
• James Brown, Executive Director, STEM Education Coalition 
• Madie Darbonne, Senior Consultant, Spring Impact 
• Padhu Seshaiyer, PhD, Tenured Professor of Mathematical Sciences; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, George Mason University; President, DiscoverE Board of Directors

This year’s meeting is designed to build on the work of last year’s DiscoverE coalition meeting and all the efforts underway, including but not limited to:

• ASCE’s Shaping the Future of Engineering Education
• ACEC’s Engineering Workforce Consortium, SOA’s National Strategy for STEMM Excellence and Equity
• NGCP’s State of Girls in STEM
• DOE’s You Belong in STEM
• WEPAN’s Emerging Issues Workshop on Leveraging the Collective Power of Engineering Professional Societies in the Wake of Anti DEI Legislation
• STEM Education Coalition’s DOD STEM Funding Initiative

* The meeting hosts will continually update this page as new speakers are added.