Bill Barberg, a co-founder of the Population Health Learning Collaborative, is the President and Founder of InsightFormation, Inc., a Minnesota-based consulting and technology company that helps communities, regions, and states address complex social and health issues that require multi-stakeholder collaboration.   His deep background in strategy implementation has been featured in dozens of conference presentations and webinars, and he both organized and hosted the recent virtual summit on Innovations in Naturally Affordable Housing.   He has been a pioneer in many projects that have pushed forward the practices for achieving Collective Impact on a wide range of issues—from addressing the opioid crisis to transforming housing re-developments into Communities of Hope in Detroit.   

Bill was selected to write the chapter on “Implementing Population Health Strategies” for the book, “Solving Population Health Problems through Collaboration” (Routledge, 2017).   His recommendations for using strategy maps is featured as a core recommendation in the new report by the National Academy of Public Administration.   Bill recently co-authored a paper for the Journal of Change Management on “Leading Social Transformations to Create Public Value and Advance the Common Good”.

Diana Lowe, QC is a lawyer with 35 years of experience which includes legal practice, research, and reform of the civil and family justice systems in Canada, and most recently as Executive Counsel to the Chief Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta. Diana has been appointed to the Queen’s Council (QC), an appointment of honor for having demonstrated exceptional merit and exemplary service to the Canadian justice system through her work in the federal public service. Diana recently retired from the Court and established a consulting practice - “Re-imagining Justice”. She continues to support the Reforming the Family Justice System (RFJS) initiative in Alberta, and also works with other jurisdictions interested in justice system transformation.

The RFJS is a multi-year, multi-sector collaboration, designed to effect system-wide change in the family justice system in Alberta, based on brain science and Adverse Childhood Experiences. The RFJS is seeking to shift the focus in family justice matters away from adversarial, legal responses, to making supports available to assist families with the social, relationship, parenting, and financial issues that arise in family matters. The outcome collaborators are seeking is family well-being, which they define as “Helping Families Thrive”.

Jane Morley QC is the Strategic Coordinator for Access to Justice BC - https://accesstojusticebc.ca. Access to Justice BC, led by the Chief Justice of British Columbia Canada, is a network of individuals and organizations committed to improving access to civil and family justice through action that is user-centered, collaborative, experimental, and evidence-based. Access to Justice BC has recently committed to leading a cross-sector Collaborative to transform the family justice system by focusing on family well-being. The Collaborative will use a strategy mapping approach to align individuals and organizations, both within and beyond the justice sector, around common objectives and measures, and to coordinate mutually reinforcing activities directed at achieving this transformation. 

Jane Morley is by profession a lawyer, by inclination a mediator, and by calling a leader of organizational and social change, especially in the areas of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples and justice reform. To learn more about her go to http://www.restorativesolutions.ca/our-team/jane-morley/

Joslyn Kuchinski. Joslyn works for the United Way of Greater Nashua as the coordinator for the Greater Nashua Smart Start Coalition. As the leader of a Collective Impact initiative that includes the local health department and other community stakeholders, she works to support the co-creation and implementation of strategies to support healthy, thriving children and families.