Your Instructors: Tuesday Ryan-Hart & Tim Merry
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Systems Change Strategists
Tim Merry & Tuesday Ryan-Hart
As outsiders, Tim & Tuesday have the advantage - the clarity and calm - of not being entrenched. When overwhelmed by repeated patterns and blocks, fresh air helps. We don't tell you what to do. We help organize for progress. By bringing fresh air and clarity to persistent challenges, we can transcend overwhelm to make a better world together. That's what we do: We help collaborators and problem-solvers get unstuck with unforgettably pivotal events, capacity-building, and strategy that sparks significant change and moves toward equity.
Tuesday Ryan-Hart
Systems Change Strategist + Cofounder, The Outside
Tuesday is an expert in working with individuals and groups to develop new ways of thinking and working with entrenched issues as they make change in their organizations, systems, and communities. A systems change strategist who left the fields of traditional social service provision and academics to become a new kind of change-maker partnering with clients around the world, Tuesday’s work is featured in the book "Walk, Out, Walk On," by Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze, and she is known internationally for her strategic work with organizations and communities engaged in systemic change. With a passion for social justice and expertise in gender & racial equity, Tuesday excels at working with groups to enhance awareness and understanding, build alliances, and take positive action together. Tuesday founded The Outside with Tim Merry in 2018, and together they have built a remarkable team to spark systems change towards greater equity.
As part of a Columbus, Ohio “community of practitioners,” Tuesday is a steward of the Art of Hosting global community of practice, mother of two, and a long-distance runner.
Tim Merry
Systems Change Strategist + Cofounder, The Outside
Tim is an engagement specialist and systems change strategist who works with organizations from all over the world to lead break through change. For over 20 years Tim has helped major international businesses, government agencies, local communities and regional collaboratives to create the conditions for people to organize together and solve their own problems. Tim founded The Outside with Tuesday Ryan-Hart in 2018, and together they have built a remarkable team to spark systems change towards greater equity.
Tim is one of the co-founders of the Art of Hosting, has been a supporter and board member of the Berkana Institute and is a co-founder of the Hub South Shore. He founded the Split Rock Learning Centre, a youth drop in centre in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, was one of the founders of Engage InterAct in the Netherlands. In 2019 he launched Mahone Bay United an all inclusive soccer club in his home town of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia.