Eric Babinet

Eric Babinet

Anchor Circle

Purpose: Catalyzing relationships among innovators who are accelerating the evolution of organizations and social systems for human and environmental thriving.

  • General Circle

    Purpose:

    Catalyzing relationships among innovators who are accelerating the evolution of organizations and social systems for human and environmental thriving.

    Domains:

    • All Company property & ordinary business affairs
    • Partner Relationships

    Accountabilities:

    • There are no accountabilities defined for this role.

  • Member Rep

    Purpose:

    The Organization has a sustainable business that is able to return some profits to Members while achieving the social benefit of its Current Purpose.

    Accountabilities:

    • Understanding and representing the economic interests of Economic Members in the Anchor Circle
    • Understanding and representing the interests of Members such that they are satisfied that the Organization is expressing its Current Purpose
    • Seeking advice from all Members on any proposed changes to this role, the "Role Assignment of Member Rep" policy or the "Process for Changing Member Rep Role and Assignment" policy.

  • Secretary

    Purpose:

    Stabilize the Circle’s constitutionally-required records and meetings.

    Domains:

    • All governance records of the Circle

    Accountabilities:

    • Scheduling regular Tactical Meetings for the Circle
    • Capturing and publishing Tactical Meeting outputs
    • Scheduling Governance Meetings for the Circle
    • Capturing and publishing the outputs of the Circle’s Governance Process
    • Interpreting the Constitution and anything under its authority upon request

General Circle

Purpose: Catalyzing relationships among innovators who are accelerating the evolution of organizations and social systems for human and environmental thriving.

  • Circle Lead

    Purpose:

    Catalyzing relationships among innovators who are accelerating the evolution of organizations and social systems for human and environmental thriving.

    Accountabilities:

    • There are no accountabilities defined for this role.

  • Community Hub

    Purpose:

    The Community Hub is an enriching and thriving space where members make meaningful connections that strengthen their purpose and expression in the world.

    Domains:

    • The Community Hub portion of the website
    • All Hub-related documents and materials

    Accountabilities:

    • There are no accountabilities defined for this role.

  • Enlivening Edge Magazine Library Steward

    Purpose:

    Preserving the Enlivening Edge Magazine Library and making it available to the world

    Accountabilities:

    • Designing and maintaining the approach for browsing and searching the Magazine Library, optimizing for usability and findability of articles
    • Analyzing website traffic and optimizing the website for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Large Language Models (AI)
    • Designing chatbot features on the website to provide enhanced engagement with Magazine Library content

  • Facebook and LinkedIn Groups Administrator

    for Facebook

    Purpose:

    EE's Facebook and LinkedIn groups are maintained and operated so that they excellently catalyze connections among people who are co-creating the next stage of consciousness in organizations

    Domains:

    • requests for membership, group description, and guidelines for interacting in Facebook group
    • requests for membership, group description, and guidelines for interacting in LinkedIn group

    Accountabilities:

    • Processing requests for group membership
    • Generating welcome-new-members posts
    • Tracking related metrics needed for Tactical meetings of @General Circle , and providing those in the place designated, prior to meetings
    • Providing the appropriate Circle Tactical meetings with interpretations of the metrics and recommendations for ways to optimize the numbers for Circle purposes
    • Monitoring groups for spammers and trollers, and taking appropriate administrative actions when needed
    • Updating guidelines for posting and interacting in the groups, and posting any updated guidelines
    • Updating pinned announcements and group descriptions, in collaboration with @Undefined Role
    • Discovering and adapting to any changes in Facebook's or LinkedIn's policies or functionalities related to groups
    • Informing @Inter-organizational Synergy Catalyzer about next-stage organizations and initiatives that post in either group that might be good relationships for EE to cultivate

  • Finances

    Purpose:

    Stewarding the finances and financial records of EE

    Domains:

    • All finance-related records
    • Company checking and PayPal accounts

    Accountabilities:

    • Budgeting and projecting cash flow needs
    • Maintaining accurate documentation of incoming and outgoing transactions
    • Fulfilling payment for services provided to EE
    • Updating quarterly the budgeted amount for the annual fix costs and therefore the amount required by the Reserve Fund.
    • Opening and managing the company checking and PayPal accounts
    • Updating the Grunt Fund monthly based on Time Contributions and as needed for any other events requiring Grunt Fund changes
    • Deciding the Actual Cash Payout Percentage used each month for determining Partner cash payments
    • Creating and maintaining documents used for Partner time reporting and for recording of the Actual Cash Payout Percentage used each month.

  • Government Compliance

    Purpose:

    Enlivening Edge is compliant with all relevant local, state, and federal regulations and filing requirements

    Accountabilities:

    • Completing and filing all tax-related forms with the IRS
    • Renewing the Nevada Business License annually and handling any business matters relating to the Registered Agent
    • Filing with the Nevada Secretary of State the relevant Amendments form when Managers in the LLC change

  • Greeter

    Purpose:

    People who know about EE are invited and facilitated into learning more about EE and moving into closer relationship with EE

    Accountabilities:

    • Developing and making widely available, accurate and attractive information about what EE is, what it stands for, how it works, and other Frequently Asked Questions about EE
    • Coordinating with @Host for Facebook and LinkedIn Groups and any other relevant roles, to develop and refine the attraction program for the specific outcome of facilitating moving people toward actively exploring a personal involvement with EE's work
    • Accepting and working with referrals from other roles of people interested in learning more about EE
    • Responding to inquiries from the Contact page in a timely manner, alerting relevant roles when appropriate, and keeping a record of inquiries and responses in the @Greeter role Google Drive folder
    • Keeping the About Our Work and About Our Team pages current and integrated with any attraction programs of EE
    • Coordinating with all roles around attraction strategies, processes, and materials, to help create a unified experience for people moving toward involvement

  • Host for Facebook and LinkedIn Groups

    for Facebook

    Purpose:

    Vibrant groups on Facebook and LinkedIn, hosted by Enlivening Edge, contributing to the thriving of Enlivening Edge and strengthening of the social ecosystem of next-stage organizations.

    Accountabilities:

    • Igniting, following, and stoking conversations in these space(s) with relevant, informative and engaging content (such as posts, comments, pictures, stories, quotes, and videos)
    • Identifying and supporting the groups' emerging needs and aspirations
    • Supporting and encouraging mutual discovery among posters in these space(s)
    • Cross-promoting these spaces with EE's Community Hub and Magazine offerings

  • Inter-organizational Synergy Catalyzer

    Purpose:

    EE is actively engaged in many synergistic inter-organizational relationships that co-create our emergent collective intelligence as a social ecosystem.

    Domains:

    • Contracts between EE and other organizations related to synergistic relationships

    Accountabilities:

    • Discovering other next-stage organizations, movements, and initiatives and evaluating their potential synergy with EE
    • Maintaining a current list of contacted, potential, and current organizational relationships, and sharing with other EE Partners upon request
    • Maintaining a record of important relationship-related contracts, activities, projects, and plans, and sharing with other EE Partners upon request
    • Designing and maintaining a template Inter-organizational Partnership contract that can be customized for each relationship
    • Initiating, developing, maintaining, and refining inter-organizational relationships of the greatest synergy potential with EE
    • Calling the attention of ecosystem-related organizations to our potentially increased collective impact on society via relating synergistically and being part of a growing ecosystem
    • Developing, implementing, and revising criteria for, and steps involved in, forming Inter-organizational Synergy Partnerships, and using an advice process with EE Partners and relevant others before accepting any new such partnerships
    • Encouraging our formally related organizational partners to form partnerships with other organizations and to suggest potential other relationships for EE
    • Contributing to the organization and facilitation of regional and international conferences where EE's purpose can be expressed and our synergistic relationships can be formed and cultivated
    • Researching and documenting effective principles and practices for fostering synergy across next-stage organizations, initiatives, and social movements
    • Looking for mentions of Enlivening Edge by others, collecting those, and, as relevant, sharing with EE Partners and inter-organizational partners.
    • Developing and implementing multi-faceted, multi-media processes, activities, and resources to support new Inter-organizational Partners in having the best possible experience of their involvement, such that the relationship thrives and flourishes. This includes meeting regularly with current Inter-organizational Synergy Partners to discover, understand, and make suggestions for addressing any tensions in our relationship, responding as appropriate for the Purpose of this role, while seeking to develop ways to optimize each relationship.
    • Putting contractual Inter-organizational Synergy Partners onto the Our Team page with appropriate labels and bios/descriptions, and calling attention to them on our site and in our community in other appropriate ways.

  • New Partner Qualifier

    Purpose:

    New Partners are aligned with EE's purpose, a fit for EE's culture, and are qualified and able to fill roles

    Accountabilities:

    • Evaluating prospective Partners, including with reference to https://www.enliveningedge.org/people-attracted-to-working-within-ee/ and to all the criteria mentioned in https://app.glassfrog.com/organizations/1568/orgnav/policies/8249538
    • Inviting all Partners to interview the prospective Partner if they wish, providing name, email address, and potential roles, if identified, and to provide feedback to the New Partner Qualifier role-energizer
    • Discussing feedback from such interviews with the Partner providing the feedback, as advice about whether to proceed with the prospective Partner's qualification process
    • Determining that the prospective Partner is engaged in the activities described in the Role Assignments policy (https://app.glassfrog.com/policies/9648283) with the Circle Lead(s) of the relevant Circle(s.)
    • Notifying prospective Partner of the outcome of the qualification process, and when successfully qualified, notifying @Partner Agreements Manager about the need to work on a new Partner Agreement

  • Partner Agreements Manager

    Purpose:

    Healthy and clear agreements with Partners and non-Partner Role Leads about their relationship with the Company

    Domains:

    • Partner Agreements
    • Non-Partner Role Lead Agreements

    Accountabilities:

    • Defining the GHRR (Grunt Hourly Resource Rate) for new Partners
    • Writing, finalizing the terms of, and signing Partner Agreements on behalf of the Company
    • Notifying all Partners of the new Partner after a Partner Agreement has been signed
    • Maintaining the official list of Company "Confidential Information" and notifying partners in a timely manner whenever it changes.
    • Writing, finalizing the terms of, and signing Non-Partner Role Lead Agreements on behalf of the Company

  • Secretary

    Purpose:

    Stabilize the Circle’s constitutionally-required records and meetings.

    Domains:

    • All governance records of the Circle

    Accountabilities:

    • Scheduling regular Tactical Meetings for the Circle
    • Capturing and publishing Tactical Meeting outputs
    • Scheduling Governance Meetings for the Circle
    • Capturing and publishing the outputs of the Circle’s Governance Process
    • Interpreting the Constitution and anything under its authority upon request
    • Scheduling the circle's Main Strategy Meeting and the Evaluating-and-Reflecting Meeting as defined in the General Circle Strategy Process policy

  • Social Media Coordinator

    for Facebook

    Purpose:

    Increased visibility and attraction of the EE and Teal ecosystem on the Web, resulting in a constant increase of people aware of and engaged with EE

    Domains:

    • EE’s social media accounts

    Accountabilities:

    • Cultivating a community of friends and followers in all social media channels where EE is present, including via seeding, responding to, and facilitating online interactions to express this role's purpose
    • Updating the Circle at Tactical meetings about our social media list of channels and actual activities via a summary report/display in addition to requested metrics
    • Scouting for and proposing innovative uses of social media to optimize the expression of this role's purpose
    • Maintaining and amplifying the presence of EE (including Magazine articles, Community Conversations, and more) on our Facebook page, Twitter account, LinkedIn page, and many relevant social media locations, online communities, and publications
    • Scanning for new potential social media networks and locations to engage with, and engaging with the most synergistically relevant
    • Offering support to our Affiliate relationship partners and ecosystem partners by postings in our social media destinations
    • Bringing relevant individuals, published material, and organizations for possible synergistic relationships to the attention of @Inter-organizational Synergy Catalyzer, and @Greeter
    • Creating and maintaining up-to-date documentation, in this role's folder in Google Drive, about access to, maintenance of, and processes for using, EE's social media accounts

  • Technical Architect/Steward

    Purpose:

    Enlivening Edge uses technology in creative and innovative ways to express its Purpose and support all roles in expressing their Purpose

    Accountabilities:

    • Troubleshooting EE-related technical issues
    • Documenting ways for Partners to effectively use our chosen technical tools (e.g. GlassFrog, Asana)
    • Orienting and teaching new Partners about our chosen technical tools
    • Creating and maintaining EE email addresses for Partners
    • Creating and maintaining logins to our chosen technical tools for Partners
    • Maintaining the Google Cloud network and all hosts managed by Enlivening Edge, including upgrades, data backups and security (e.g. website, staging site, Mattermost)
    • Supporting other roles if they need access to our Mailchimp templates, campaigns, and historical mailing list

  • User Agreements

    Purpose:

    Clear terms of service & privacy policies for the website and the Community Hub that satisfy legal requirements and provide legal protections for Enlivening Edge and users of its services

    Domains:

    • EE Community Hub Terms of Use https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gGlyAG1e0S5e9cbEUmhBk_R1fJ0JW7-QiSNbvlKqc44/edit
    • EE Community Hub Acceptable Use Policy https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rru4wSZyXYOxQN3igmCSZKLJzFmCduQw4Xgu08UhNIQ/edit
    • Privacy Noice of Enlivening Edge LLC https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gTP3J1Adq-IOlgRh8WYxrCGgaEFQvqtNxmxYtawTa9Q/edit
    • EE Community Hub Copyright Policy https://docs.google.com/document/d/18wEJ_xutGMaw1nQTPsPDKvSXqcy4ECA8rpDn1UC3JEM/edit
    • EE Community Hub Trademark Policy https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-gJQWJF4ldI4Wofq1unXZoT356zGkg5IW3wrOoZ70dM/edit

    Accountabilities:

    • Writing & maintaining terms of use & privacy policies for the website
    • Writing & maintaining terms of use, privacy policy, and related policies for the Community Hub
    • Providing @Website Wizard instructions for displaying terms of service and privacy policies in all necessary locations
    • Receiving and handling (within terms of Terms of Use) reports by Members or Administrators of violations of Terms of Use (and all included or related documents) within the Community Hub
    • Maintaining up to date versions of all documents which are domains of this role

  • Wealth Nurturer

    Purpose:

    Enlivening Edge has clear strategies for financial sustainability and growth.

    Accountabilities:

    • Developing and maintaining an overall plan for Enlivening Edge financial sustainability and growth
    • Defining specific product and/or service strategies for revenue generation
    • Appreciating and thanking financial contributors to Enlivening Edge in ways appropriate to the level of giving

  • Website Wizard

    Purpose:

    The website is the best platform it can be for supporting all role-holders' work and providing our visitors with a high-value experience

    Domains:

    • Website menus

    Accountabilities:

    • Maintaining and improving the EE website infrastructure, including testsite infrastructure, management of Wordpress plugins & licenses, and website analytics.
    • Giving readers of the website access to copies of previous Magazine Highlights
    • Designing and implementing website menus and navigation
    • Designing and implementing the layout of website pages and sidebars
    • Evaluating and implementing (if possible) requests from other role-holders for new website functionality

Community Hub

Purpose: The Community Hub is an enriching and thriving space where members make meaningful connections that strengthen their purpose and expression in the world.

  • Circle Lead

    Purpose:

    The Community Hub is an enriching and thriving space where members make meaningful connections that strengthen their purpose and expression in the world.

    Accountabilities:

    • There are no accountabilities defined for this role.

  • Community Hub Administrator

    Purpose:

    Timely, smooth, administrative operations of the Community Hub

    Accountabilities:

    • Receiving member applications, evaluating them according to explicit criteria, triggering the sending of acceptance or rejection letters, informing @Community Hub Welcomer of those approved
    • Removing the membership of individual members who have been determined by this role to have violated the Terms of Use (and included documents) in such a way that their removal is required.
    • Implementing the Self-governance approval of a new Group or new Forum.
    • Expediting the processing of any application which poses challenges to completion of the process for a member who is applying
    • Handling all matters related to member payments and accounts
    • Responding to member inquiries and challenges related to account access, such as lost passwords, etc.
    • Notifying members of a group of the pending deletion of the group, allowing them to copy out anything they want to keep, if no one else is available to send this notification.
    • Energizing the role of any Group Administrator who is no longer functioning, until a qualified replacement GA is in the role.
    • Carrying out specifications of Hub Current Governance in Section 6.1 with respect to this role in the process of approving a proposal for a new Forum
    • Removing a Group Administrator role-filler from the role upon request of group members engaged in the current governance process of removing a Group Administrator in their group, by sending the role-filler a Direct Message with an effective date. Other responses to their request may be developed by mutual agreement between this role and those members..
    • Keeping a record of groups whose Group Administrator has resigned, as an alert to the possibility of having to fill the role for a period of time until there is a new qualified role-filler.

  • Community Hub Designer

    Purpose:

    The overall Community Hub offering is unique, attractive, meeting Community Hub Member needs, and contributing to EE financial sustainability

    Accountabilities:

    • Defining and prioritizing the features/services to be included in the Community Hub
    • Defining and revising pricing model, including pricing discounts, for the Community Hub
    • Designing and optimizing the platform experience, for all Community Hub members, including the navigation and account-related experiences, and including the platform settings, for best expressing the purpose of the community
    • Designing all aspects of the Community Hub such that it contributes to the financial sustainability of Enlivening Edge

  • Community Hub Member Experience

    Purpose:

    EE Community Hub members are enthusiastic about the value of their membership and there is a high renewal rate, thus fostering the next-stage-organizational ecosystem and making the Hub financially successful for EE

    Domains:

    • Guidelines for Interacting in EE Community Hub document

    Accountabilities:

    • Developing and communicating to all Community Hub members any relevant principles, values, and boundaries related to a next-stage organizational community culture
    • Developing, maintaining, revising, and keeping highly visible to all members, with ongoing input from the collective wisdom of the community, the document of Community Hub Guidelines for interacting, to help create member experience of the Hub as a supportive, safe, and engaging space.
    • Obtaining, ongoingly, an up-to-date overall picture of how members are experiencing the Community Hub and making recommendations for improving that experience to other relevant Community Hub-related role-holders, such that the Evolutionary Purpose of the Hub is increasingly expressed.
    • Facilitating the member-experienced culture of the Community Hub to clearly, dynamically, and successfully express the Evolutionary Purpose of the Hub

  • Community Hub Self-governance Steward

    Purpose:

    The self-governance aspect of the Community Hub is engaging, valuable, easily operated by Community Hub members and optimally integrated with other aspects of the Community Hub and with the rest of Enlivening Edge

    Domains:

    • EE Community Hub Self-Management and Governance Master Document https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B05FmT_OmpcPkd0kzRtZ_aUJoMKjEFglA4dWFZgpMRc/edit#
    • EE Community Hub Record of Self-governance Decisions https://docs.google.com/document/d/17gnNUscvpN0FNRhHJOvUp1DKGuxcknrR_WL_oc5iPf4/edit
    • Template proposal for creating a new group https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oaJ5UwAdwzl53Ydri6gCkT00_lVfpaCyI48HfpJuKqc/edit
    • Template proposal for making change in CH Meeting Decision-making Process https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zUFEN2bEGsMHO76TxzSj8_jy9cwtDUKzLq2q6hx_2P0/edit#
    • Template proposal for making change in CH Self-governance other than CHDM https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zUFEN2bEGsMHO76TxzSj8_jy9cwtDUKzLq2q6hx_2P0/edit#

    Accountabilities:

    • Maintaining a record of Community Hub decisions so current governance is easily accessible to all and only current Community Hub members.
    • Creating and maintaining default roles, accountabilities, processes to simplify overall Community Hub self-governance and operations
    • Offering guidance and answering Community Hub member questions about how Community Hub self-governance works
    • Monitoring the success of Community Hub self-governance and seeking and implementing Community Hub member feedback to evolve and improve the self-governance aspect of the Community Hub.
    • Maintaining a written summary accessible to all EE Partners and Community Hub members, that clearly states what can and cannot be changed through Community Hub self-governance
    • Seeking advice from all Community Hub members and @Community Hub Designer and @Community Hub Welcomer before making changes to the official summary of what can and cannot be changed through Community Hub self-governance.
    • Interpreting current governance of the Community Hub on request and proposing new governance to clarify any unclear language.
    • Monitoring Community Hub decisions and operations, and providing feedback if role-holder believes there is misalignment with current Community Hub governance
    • Participating in all Community Hub Self-governance decision activities, meetings, and processes, representing the whole of EE in these, and researching and reporting on any existing Hub Current Governance that relates to discussion of a pending proposal or to an agenda item under discussion during a Community Hub Decision-making meeting.
    • Establishing, implementing, and facilitating a formal Advice Process by which Community Hub members have input to aspects of the Hub not subject to Self-governance
    • Maintaining, and seeking to restore if needed, integration of Community Hub Current Governance with the rest of EE's current governance
    • Working with Community Hub members, in a co-created process, to design a process and materials for orienting and training members who take on such community-governance defined roles as Concierge, Group Administrators, and Group Hosts
    • Assisting CH members to craft proposals to submit to the Self-governance process
    • Filling the role of Forum Host for the "Community Self-Management" & "Community Governance Proposals" forums, if no other Community Hub Member is filling the role

  • Community Hub Welcomer

    Purpose:

    New members feel belonging right away, and learn to use the community quickly and easily

    Domains:

    • Template document for Community Hub New Member Welcome and Orientation Program https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QrzUjovE5Aeqwy6TUYW6vsh7JgeL2ZIVDG5t4l-4ucU
    • Template welcome letter from Welcomer sent upon an applicant's approval of membership https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bmWgvJOEJ9mrwR2enmM2G_HLTbdehbpdVHsKRewNaYc
    • Community Hub Guidelines for Interacting https://docs.google.com/document/d/143qjwRVP1U5ENNle5mYyNLfK1IQtoGCM4HiKFfhlm1k/edit#heading=h.jst0mutdr4ru
    • Community Hub Welcome and Orientation Program (template URL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QrzUjovE5Aeqwy6TUYW6vsh7JgeL2ZIVDG5t4l-4ucU/edit)

    Accountabilities:

    • Providing customized orientation help via a specific Welcome and Orientation Program for new members so the community feels like a place of inspiration, belonging, support, refuge, relaxation, and psychological safety as well as practical knowledge
    • Developing, maintaining, revising, and keeping highly visible to all members, all materials and processes involved in welcoming and orienting new community members
    • Obtaining input from new community members to design and refine a process for getting their advice on improving the new member Welcome and Orientation Program
    • Filling the role of Forum Host for the "Power of Community for Connection and Learning" & "Introductions/Networking" forums, if no other Community Hub Member is filling the role