Beverly Wenger-Trayner

Beverly is known for her work with international organizations including cross-boundary processes and the use of new technologies. Her expertise encompasses the design and facilitation of social learning strategies and coaching of social learning leaders in complex situations. Once an activist for international equitable development, her passion has matured into an intellectual drive to help people and institutions get better at making a difference. Recently, she acted as learning consultant for the World Bank on a long-term development project in Africa. Her report (2014) on using the value-creation framework in this project has attracted the attention of practitioners and evaluators across the international development community. She recently published an article reflecting on the evolution of the framework in the context of that project (2017).

Together

We are developing conceptual frameworks and practices to address the learning challenges facing public and private organizations today. We also run workshops on social learning leadership. We are interested in large-scale social learning challenges, bringing people together across organizations, geography, sectors, and disciplines to address complex problems.

We are co-editors of the book Learning in landscapes of practice, where we contributed several chapters, in particular the framing chapter (2014). We are the lead authors of a journal article on their value-creation framework for social learning (Wenger-Trayner et al., 2017). And we have a book in press called “Learning to make a difference: value-creation and social learning spaces” (Cambridge University Press) which marks a big step in the direction of the theory.