OrbWeaver Consulting
Cheryl L.B. Manning, Ph.D.
Building Collaborative Capacity Across Expertise Divides
When researchers & practitioners, scientists & communities, or technical experts & decision-makers struggle to collaborate, I redesign how they work together, addressing interpersonal barriers that block knowledge integration.
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With 25 years of facilitating resistant collaborations, from high school departments to scientist-teacher partnerships to community-institution initiatives, I've developed methods that make expertise hierarchies explicit and create structures for genuine co-production.
Most collaboration failures stem from unexamined assumptions about whose knowledge matters. Whether you need organizational facilitation, research support, or help bridging the academic-practitioner divide, I work at the interpersonal level where collaboration actually breaks down—helping people examine the dynamics they bring to collaborative work.
Ph.D. Geoscience Education Research | AAAS Honorary Fellow | Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow Alumni | 30 Years of Science Education Leadership
It is all Native Land.
The land I live and work on is the traditional homeland of the Ute, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ.
