Blank Pages, Bold Ideas: Introducing Community Knowledge Collective – a place for thought leadership and more!
- Jessica Morgan
- 5 days ago
- 6 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
Ask any writer. The cursor blinking back at them elicits a number of feelings. It represents the beginning of a blank page waiting to be filled. Do they have the words to express the idea? Will the reader connect with it as intended? This cluster of emotions belongs to journalists, authors, scriptwriters, and technical writers alike.
Maybe you’re one of our Community Members who looks at that cursor and lets imposter syndrome take hold. “Who wants to hear my ideas?” “Will this be truly as impactful to others as it was to me?”
This is your permission to fill those blank pages.
Several months ago, a group of dedicated volunteers began meeting to help develop our redesigned blog and news space. They distilled feedback from conference sessions, webinars, and their own experience into a purpose-built resource for the Community.
After distillation, they drafted this goal:
To enable and mobilize our Community in the application of human and organizational learning principles, setting the foundation for strategic growth, improved performance, organizational resilience, and business value.
In addition to the goal of this redesigned virtual space, five initial content pillars were created. These pillars will influence the type of content our volunteers recruit, republish, or write.
ROI & The Business Case: The practices associated with organizational learning are investments and serve as a strategic advantage in today's market and economic landscape.
Leadership Buy-In & Influence: How do you gain traction with executives while empowering emerging leaders and middle managers? Explore ways to drive influence.
Compliance to Everyday Behavior: Building a culture of learning from everyday work is not checking another box. Participation is not enforcement; it is an invitation to contribute.
Theory into Practice: Complex frameworks, leading-edge research, and decades-old ideas are distilled into tools and frameworks easy to implement into practice.
Digital Frontiers: Corporate culture, driven by human engagement, drives the development and use of technology to augment and advance the activities of everyday work.
As with the goal, these pillars come directly from you, our Community. These are the combination of the big questions we hear over and over again from every level within the organization. We’re trying to practice what we preach: listening and creating capacity.
On a personal note, when I sought permission from the board to dig into this initiative, I had no idea the depths of creativity and truly inspired ideas that would be generated. The concept of this online space has been a goal of the board for many years. For those of you who are tasked with regular content distribution, you know this is hard. What began as a simple goal of content planning has evolved into a hub of innovation, collaboration, and boundary-pushing ideas. – Jessica Morgan, Director of Communications
Introducing the Community Knowledge Collective
Welcome to the Community Knowledge Collective, our redesigned virtual space. This is a living content library within our website. The intention is for this dedicated web space to become your regular destination for knowledge sharing, idea inspiration, your go-to place for new ways to grow. Your voice is welcomed and encouraged; your work is important and it may be the catalyst for success for another Community member.
Content will be categorized by type, no longer by topic (though keywords will still serve as tags for searchability). These types fall under the following categories:
Thought Leadership
Application
Case Studies
Opinions
Book and Article Reviews
Inspiration
Announcements
Other
Understanding Our Content Categories
Thought Leadership pushes the boundaries of existing practices and ideas on human performance, operational excellence, and organizational effectiveness. Content in this category offers new insights, challenges assumptions, and provides practical ways to think or act differently. It encourages you to let go of outdated assumptions while giving you actionable concepts you can use.
To meet this definition, a piece of content should:
Bring a clear perspective on a principle | A specific, experience-based viewpoint that expands our understanding.
Reveal a pattern or system-level observation | Patterns show how systems really work and help us improve entire environments.
Offer a tool, practice, case study, or story that turns reflection into action | Something readers can apply to influence real outcomes.
Stretch thinking and behavior | Encouraging readers to rethink, reframe, or try a new approach.
Application is about taking ideas off the page and into the work. These pieces share practical ways concepts are tested, adapted, and used in real settings.
Case Studies are descriptive accounts of real scenarios, projects, or events. They share what happened, what was tried, and what was learned. They usually focus on a single situation showing applied experience, and they help Community members support their organization’s initiatives.
Opinions are short, personal viewpoints on an issue, trend, or experience. These pieces express an individual’s perspective without introducing new insights, patterns, or tools. They spark discussion by reinforcing generally accepted practices within human and organizational learning.
Book and Article Reviews summarize and reflect on published works relevant to our field. They highlight takeaways, key ideas, and useful concepts for our members. These pieces reinforce familiar tools and principles.
Inspiration includes short, uplifting content designed to encourage, motivate, or affirm practitioners. These reflections, stories, quotes, or personal experiences help practitioners reconnect with meaning and momentum in their work.
Time-bound updates and informational notices relevant to CHOLearning. This category is used to share news such as program launches, organizational updates, or changes that members need to be aware of.
Other is our open space. Do you have a haiku born of the frustration of everyday work? An interview worth reading or watching? Anything that supports growth, reflection, or curiosity is invited for submission in this category.
From Fireside to Website
If you attended the first 2026 Community Fireside, you heard directly from our Board President, Charles Major. He encouraged you to be one or all of the Four C’s.
Consumer: Learn from and with us. Make sure you receive our emails. Many enterprise and government organizations will filter out the cholearning.org DNS. Seek to have the DNS whitelisted. Or, consider signing up with a personal email. Follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube.
Contributor: Write! Fill that blank page with your ideas. Trust yourself and the writing process.
Cheerleader: Share your network with us. Maybe you see an article in your LinkedIn feed, or an industry-specific periodical, or a fascinating Substack that speaks to one of the content pillars. We want to see it.
Curator: Work with us. Join our volunteer meetings. Serve as a writing springboard to help others bring their ideas to life.
Your Input, Live
A few wonderful questions came in during our Fireside chat. They’re listed below. Perhaps someone in our Community is willing to move the cursor along the page to provide an answer.
Applying HOP to contractor safety management?
Teaching leaders how to address unsafe behavior?!
Is there a meaningful way to extract the best out of BBS and to align it with HOP?
A community which allows A 'SPACE' for BENCHMARKING of organizational learning of humans... in layman’s terms- [is there] a place to go to advance your beliefs of the principles[?]
Cheers to 2026 and fulfilling the long-held vision of the CHOLearning Board. Chase your cursor across the page. Fill it with your learning experiences, bold ideas, inspirations, and thought-provoking concepts.
If you are interested in contributing to the Community Knowledge Collective, I invite you to reach out at jessica.morgan@cholearning.org. Do you already have a piece of work to contribute? Use the grey button at the top of the Community Knowledge Collective page.
Jessica Morgan is the Director of Communications for the Community of Human and Organizational Learning (CHOLearning), where she leads content and community storytelling focused on the practical application of human and organizational learning principles. Since 2021, she has worked closely with members, volunteers, and contributors to help surface and shape their unique stories, experiences, and insights in ways that are accessible, meaningful, and grounded in real work.
In addition to her role with CHOLearning, Jessica is an award-winning solopreneur and owner of WSD Services, a full-service marketing and graphic design consultancy. Her background spans brand development, content strategy, and visual communication across industries, including sports, healthcare, home services, and outdoor recreation. She brings a practitioner’s lens to storytelling, with an emphasis on clarity, connection, and purpose.
Outside of work, Jessica is deeply rooted in her family and local community and values service, learning, and connection both on and off the page.
Disclosure of AI Use: This attestation was developed with the assistance of artificial intelligence tools.
Tool(s) used: ChatGPT (OpenAI)
Purpose(s): ideation, drafting, grammar
Human review/editing: All content was reviewed and finalized by CHOLearning staff prior to publication.
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