About Us
The Connectors helps individuals and teams cultivate their skills to move ideas forward.
We provide workshops, resources, and consulting in both physical and virtual environments to help people of all ages make the connections they need to move their ideas forward. Working with everyone from youth to senior leaders, we focus on a variety of topics, including effective verbal and written communication, approaches to outreach, and understanding cultural context. In addition to helping groups become better skilled at connecting, we also provide individual and team coaching and help make connections using our existing network.
What is a connection and why does it matter?
We have many types of relationships, interactions, and transactions, and not all need to be significant connections. Understanding what is needed in different circumstances will help you focus the right type of attention, leading to better outcomes for all. Cultivating this practice in yourself can help you move your ideas, initiatives, and/or business forward.
Who do we work with?
We are best poised to help people who are trying to do something meaningful and are struggling to find a way to get there. Changemakers, people managers, entrepreneurs, and activators need the right tools and language to enroll others in their vision. Learn more about our work with companies, nonprofits, and students.
About Our Founder and Chief Connector
Emily Weiner is a systems thinking entrepreneur, business advisor, and mentor who has spent more than 25 years connecting people and ideas to activate change. She models how to bring intentionality to relationships and partnerships, and leaders rely on her ability to connect the dots, especially between people, to help them activate new and expanded opportunities, innovation, and impact.
In addition to her work with established changemakers and business professionals, she has helped thousands of young people connect to their passions, cultivate new skills, and embrace societal problems as entrepreneurial opportunities. She coaches everyone – from teenagers to people in their 60s – to discover how they can activate change in any organization, any role, any sector, and any community.
Prior to founding The Connectors, Emily served as Chief of Staff at greenlight for girls, an organization that encourages girls to consider STEM-related careers by introducing them to the world of math and science in fun and exciting ways. She was a founding member of The Lewis Institute at Babson College, serving as its Associate Director for 11 years and growing it from an entrepreneurial startup to a multimillion-dollar portfolio of business focused on social impact across all sectors and issues. She developed the Green Events practice for Boston College’s Center for Corporate Citizenship to help link environmental sustainability efforts with corporate social responsibility initiatives. As an entrepreneur, she has started her own businesses and worked for a variety of organizations across sectors, including corporate, nonprofit, academia, and politics (though she promises to never return to politics!).
Emily is an alumna of Wellesley College and is currently an RSA Fellow, a Global Advisor to Orora Global, and an Advisory Board member of Community Dispute Settlement Center. She has proudly been involved with Women2Women, an international leadership program for women in their teens and 20s, since 2013 and is privileged to support and empower the next generation of leaders who identify as female.