The Field Guide to Transformation Field Guide Form Project name:Your Name First Last Your Email Address What is this project about?How is the system broken?What is the goal?What is the system?(Should this be combined with "how is the system broken") ?Readiness questions:Do you have a team? Yes No Working On In Describe your teamDo you have the core players you need? Yes No Working on it What players have showed up?What roles remains to be filled?Is it healthy? Can it handle conflict? Yes No Working on it Have you raised some support? Yes No Working on it Are there milestones you have reached? Yes No Working on it What is the point of leverage? What is the trim tab, the thing that if it changes, catalyzes a system shift or phase change?(It might be hard to find, or to move that thing once you find it, but it’s the thing you know would change the game. It's important to identify.) Staging QuestionsAt what stage is this project? Emerging system catalyst System beginning to come together Guild in Formation Launching Expansion Scale Who are the Players? (Check applicable) Do you have enterprises engaged? Do you have government involvement? Do you have institutions? Do you have money people? Do you have brokers/intermediaries? Do you have an anchor institution or two? Who else do you have?Who needs to think differently?In the Field Guide for Transformation, we believe that the following roles are important to be filled for transformation to happen smoothly. Who are your people you have in each of these roles:System CatalystsPeople who realize the system is broken and are beginning to look for and work toward a better waySystem EntrepreneurA network weaver that moves the whole ecosystem forward ProphetThis person helps you keep your motives for equity and justice at the forefront Finance NinjaA person who can build the new capital vehicle(s) that clears up the blockage in the systemMother HenShepherds the key relationshipsConnected Ambassador (or Evangelist/Storyteller)This person socializes the story of the project of system entrepreneur in a community and can help open doors to those in power Anchor Institution(s)Often hospitals and/or universities or churches can offer resources and a long term view to take promising system-changing ideas to scale What is your solution?Who is this for?How will this lead to greater equity?What is the shape of the capital that is needed?(What kind of catalytic capital is needed? Catalytic capital may be hard to find but it can lubricate the entire systemic change needed.)Is it needed immediately and you can offer a return?Is it philanthropy?Is it patient investment?What does it look like?How confident are you that your solution will:(0 - zero confidence; 10 - it will absolutely work) Address the problem?012345678910Attack the right leverage point?012345678910Change the system?012345678910Increase equity?012345678910Increase collective response to ___________ (insert your pressing issue)?012345678910Connect old power with new power?012345678910Who else is doing this?Where does your solution fit?What systems would your solution be nested within?Where do you fit in?Who fits in with you?Who are you already partnering with?Who might you partner with?