Our Membership Approach
Peer-Led Exchanges
Groups are designed to facilitate meaningful and impactful exchanges among professionals who share similar passions and responsibilities. Through peer-driven discussions, best practice sharing, and interactive workshops, members learn from each other’s experiences, gaining valuable insights that inform their strategies.
Network Expansion
Our peer impact groups offer an unparalleled opportunity to connect with like-minded professionals from diverse industries, fostering cross-sector collaborations and expanding each member’s network of contacts and potential partners.
Quarterly Meetings
Each group’s initial meeting will be in person and will cover the Peer Impact Network’s general discussion rules as well as where and when future meeting dates and times will be. Each meeting will be hosted by an experienced, professional facilitator.
Objective
We understand the importance of collective action and collaboration in tackling challenges, and our mission is to empower our members with the knowledge, tools, and connections they need to achieve increasingly ambitious goals.
By coming together, our members amplify their individual efforts and influence, driving change not only within their organizations but also across entire industries and sectors.
Ground Rules
- The Peer Impact Network is designed by job function. The participant has to be responsible for or directly involved in this function within the organization.
Chatham House Rule: Participants are free to use the information received but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed. - The group will decide when to allow new participants to join if space is available.
- Active participation: Attendance is required in both in-person and virtual meetings; absences would disqualify the participant from future participation.
- Subscription fees are non-refundable.
- Mutual respect.
- Powerful communication.
- NO SELLING!
Facilitators
Devon Skerritt, Ed.D
Social Design Strategies
Devon is an independent design researcher, facilitator, and strategist growing people’s capacity to navigate change and imagine possibilities by design. Devon works at the intersections of learning, inquiry, and civic engagement focused on communities’ participation in initiatives impacting them. His consultancy, Social Design Strategies, enables learning organizations, nonprofits, and civic institutions to understand people, context, and possibilities through creative problem solving, centered on equity and belonging. Over eight years of human-centered design practice, Devon drove design thinking through facilitation, coaching, and qualitative research across innovation teams at Southern New Hampshire University and organized Design and Innovation programs at Southern Methodist University through academic experiences and corporate partnerships. Devon has served as an adjunct lecturer teaching about Life Design and Liberatory design thinking, and brings more than 15 added years of experience in education administration roles serving students as an advisor and counselor at organizations from K12 to higher education.
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Devon received his Ed.D. from SMU and master’s degree (both in higher education) from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, where was also a 2015 Social Impact Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, with a B.A. in history from Colgate University.
Trinnie Houghton
CEO, Leadership & Team Coach, Ripple Effect Studio, NHBSR Impact Network- HR Group
Trinnie specializes in team dynamics, communication, relationship management, systems thinking, and leader well-being. She partners with organizations that focus on the sustainability of leaders and their teams. Clients have reported more authentic connection, new ways of understanding and knowing, awakened compassion, and a sense of renewal. Trinnie came to develop her coaching practice after many years as an attorney with the best of Boston law firms. She combines both analytics and heart into an embodied leader approach. She also holds and advanced coaching certificate for organizational and relationship systems (team) coaching. Being half-European, Trinnie is sensitive to different cultures and works exceptionally well with global teams, particularly facilitating workshops and coaching clients in Europe and Asia. For over 15 years, Trinnie has coached leadership teams, C-suite and senior-level executives, partners, and emerging leaders in corporate and nonprofit sectors. She has also created and conducted conscious leadership development programs across New Hampshire. Additionally, Trinnie has been adjunct faculty at Southern New Hampshire University’s Graduate Business School, teaching Leadership and Human Behavior in Organizations classes.
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Scott Seagren
Author, CEO to CEOs: Masterful Guidance for Evolving Leadership and Transforming Conflict, One Courageous Conversation at a Time Concord, NH
Scott is a trusted advisor to hundreds of successful leaders who are committed to developing a healthy, highly productive culture and sustainable workforce. He is passionate about transforming complexity into creative opportunity and evolving conscious leadership one courageous conversation at a time.
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Soon after graduating from Northwestern, he jumped into Chicago’s commodities trading pits, where he was a professional market maker and broker for nearly 20 years, galvanizing his calm demeanor and deep inner strength in response to intense emotions and in-your-face competition. In 2004 Scott left the trading floor to leverage his understanding of people and how they interact with each other – the human capital component of business – into a full-time executive coaching practice.
Scott is trained and certified as a mediator, professional coach and group facilitator. In 2010, he launched a CEO roundtable in Chicago through Vistage Worldwide. Today, he coaches C-suite and senior level executives, partners and emerging leaders in a variety of industries. He also continues to deliver team and leadership development workshops for corporations and groups where communication, leadership and conflict issues obstruct authentic conversation. The results are better listening, quicker resolutions and higher team productivity.
Membership Fees
Annual Fee per participant.
Maximum of two representatives from the same organization. Participants must be selected and named upon joining the network. Participants must be leaders or directly involved in the function of the Peer Impact Network. If the registration fee is a barrier, reach out. We are in the process of seeking sponsorships for smaller organizations. If you would like to sponsor a smaller organization, please get in touch.
Peer Impact Networks launching in 2024 (with more to come in the future) are:
- Environmental Sustainability Group (First meeting March 6, 2024)
- Human Centered Workplaces Group (First meeting March 8, 2024)
- CEO Suite
For more information, contact Zeina Eyceoz