Chong-Lim Lee is the Senior Director for Programs at Synergos, a global network building trust and collaboration to address complex issues of poverty, social injustice, and climate change. Chong-Lim helps establish and grow in-country programs for systems-approach solutions on priority issues including maternal and child health, nutrition, agricultural transformation, early childhood care and development, education, and social entrepreneurship. These programs have operated in Bangladesh, India, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Namibia, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Canadian First Nations, and the Arab World.
Synergos’ programs activate actors in government, business, philanthropy, and civil society toward shared goals through its bridging leadership approach. Chong-Lim is a co-editor, with Mark Gerzon and Shirley Pendlebury, on Bridging Leadership Voices: Building trust for collective action, a book and accompanying podcast series with insights from practitioners around the world who are driven by personal and shared purpose to lead with an inclusive, collective response.
Chong-Lim is a 2021 Fellow in the Women InPower network of social impact-focused senior-level women leaders in New York City, selected by the 92NY Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact. She received her B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University and M.Sc. from New School University.
Cross-sector collaborations are a response to the increasing recognition that many of the pressing challenges of our time are complex and requires a systems approach. Such challenges must involve multiple stakeholders, guided by principles of inclusion and equity, and draw on a full range of resources to achieve results that cannot be achieved by working in silos, including stakeholders’ expertise, experience and insights, relationships and networks, and financial contributions. Cross sector collaborations can catalyze adoption of innovations and policies and strengthen resilience when confronted by the unknown and unpredictable. While promising and extolled in principle, cross-sector collaborations can be difficult in practice due to structural and institutional barriers, as well as distinct assumptions, works styles, and disciplinary backgrounds of those engaged.
This course encourages students to understand the value and challenges of cross-sector collaborations and to gain insight on the skills and approaches required. The course is structured around student engagement and learning on collaboration cases that span geographic context and levels of action: domestic, national and global contexts. Through frameworks, practitioner testimonials and applied practice, students learn relevant frameworks for collaboration, explore assumptions from each sector, clarify and challenge their own assumptions and preconceptions about sectors, and identify their own strengths and gaps to become competent collaborators.
Cross-sector collaborations are a response to the increasing recognition that many of the pressing challenges of our time are complex and requires a systems approach. Such challenges must involve multiple stakeholders, guided by principles of inclusion and equity, and draw on a full range of resources to achieve results that cannot be achieved by working in silos, including stakeholders’ expertise, experience and insights, relationships and networks, and financial contributions. Cross sector collaborations can catalyze adoption of innovations and policies and strengthen resilience when confronted by the unknown and unpredictable. While promising and extolled in principle, cross-sector collaborations can be difficult in practice due to structural and institutional barriers, as well as distinct assumptions, works styles, and disciplinary backgrounds of those engaged.
This course encourages students to understand the value and challenges of cross-sector collaborations and to gain insight on the skills and approaches required. The course is structured around student engagement and learning on collaboration cases that span geographic context and levels of action: domestic, national and global contexts. Through frameworks, practitioner testimonials and applied practice, students learn relevant frameworks for collaboration, explore assumptions from each sector, clarify and challenge their own assumptions and preconceptions about sectors, and identify their own strengths and gaps to become competent collaborators.
Cross-sector collaborations are a response to the increasing recognition that many of the pressing challenges of our time are complex and requires a systems approach. Such challenges must involve multiple stakeholders, guided by principles of inclusion and equity, and draw on a full range of resources to achieve results that cannot be achieved by working in silos, including stakeholders’ expertise, experience and insights, relationships and networks, and financial contributions. Cross sector collaborations can catalyze adoption of innovations and policies and strengthen resilience when confronted by the unknown and unpredictable. While promising and extolled in principle, cross-sector collaborations can be difficult in practice due to structural and institutional barriers, as well as distinct assumptions, works styles, and disciplinary backgrounds of those engaged.
This course encourages students to understand the value and challenges of cross-sector collaborations and to gain insight on the skills and approaches required. The course is structured around student engagement and learning on collaboration cases that span geographic context and levels of action: domestic, national and global contexts. Through frameworks, practitioner testimonials and applied practice, students learn relevant frameworks for collaboration, explore assumptions from each sector, clarify and challenge their own assumptions and preconceptions about sectors, and identify their own strengths and gaps to become competent collaborators.
Cross-sector collaborations are a response to the increasing recognition that many of the pressing challenges of our time are complex and requires a systems approach. Such challenges must involve multiple stakeholders, guided by principles of inclusion and equity, and draw on a full range of resources to achieve results that cannot be achieved by working in silos, including stakeholders’ expertise, experience and insights, relationships and networks, and financial contributions. Cross sector collaborations can catalyze adoption of innovations and policies and strengthen resilience when confronted by the unknown and unpredictable. While promising and extolled in principle, cross-sector collaborations can be difficult in practice due to structural and institutional barriers, as well as distinct assumptions, works styles, and disciplinary backgrounds of those engaged.
This course encourages students to understand the value and challenges of cross-sector collaborations and to gain insight on the skills and approaches required. The course is structured around student engagement and learning on collaboration cases that span geographic context and levels of action: domestic, national and global contexts. Through frameworks, practitioner testimonials and applied practice, students learn relevant frameworks for collaboration, explore assumptions from each sector, clarify and challenge their own assumptions and preconceptions about sectors, and identify their own strengths and gaps to become competent collaborators.