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PARTNERING

Jean Oelwang

Forge the Deep Connections that Make Great Things Happen

This is an inspirational call to build deep business and personal relationships as the foundation of a meaningful life and purposeful collaborations, drawing from the wisdom of legendary partnerships including James and Rosalynn Carter, Ben and Jerry, Desmond and Leah Tutu, and the collective that saved humanity by closing the ozone hole.
Our individualistic society has created an environment of fear, division, and domination, which has crushed our ability to relate meaningfully to each other and diminished our capacity to innovate and collaborate.

Jean Oelwang, president and founding CEO of Virgin Unite, has been on a decade-long exploration to find out how to nurture relationships with depth and purpose. Deep connections shape who we are and have a profound ripple effect on everything we do, supporting us to achieve more, withstand anything, and amplify impact. Those enduring partnerships are the foundation of a meaningful life as well as the backbone of any successful organization and collaboration.

From hundreds of interviews with sixty great partnerships, ranging from business partners, to friends, to life partners who have made a profound difference, Oelwang offers new insights into how to build relationships that matter. She identifies six core principles including the all-important virtues that connect great partners, the daily rituals that they use to stay in sync, and the skills that allow them to disagree respectfully and productively.

Packed with wisdom to nourish the relationships that give us strength and meaning, PARTNERING is a profound call-to-action to forge partnerships in service of a greater purpose.

Jean Oelwang is the President and Founding CEO of Virgin Unite and a B Team Leader. She sits on the Advisory Council for The Elders and a number of Boards, including RMI, Ocean Unite, Just Capital and Virgin Unite.
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Published 2022-03-08 by Optmimism Press

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In her new book Partnering, out next week, Jean Oelwang argues that partnerships are at the core of most significant human achievements. Oelwang, the founding president and CEO of Virgin's Unite foundation, defines partnerships somewhat broadly, focusing on professional and personal relationships where people have "Deep Connections" that equip them to advance toward a goal and unite others around them. Read more...

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We sat down with Oelwang to ask her for the secrets to building relationships that matter, what surprised her the most throughout her research, and what all of us can do starting today to strengthen our own connections and forge new partnerships that may help us serve a greater purpose.... Read more...

Every one of us has the ability to partner, and these partnerships have the potential to inspire businesses, social movements, and real change to improve our world. That is why I asked Jean Oelwang to write this book for Optimism Press. If more of us can learn to partner like the people Jean shares about, then we can advance towards a brighter future together. Read more...

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