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Building Resiliency in Your Organization

05/18/2026

Resiliency. In a rapidly changing world, the ability to detect and respond to disruption is no longer optional – it is critical to organizational performance and longevity. Business leaders today may face any number of challenges: technology advancements, economic downturns,…

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The Story of OrgX

07/14/2025

Eleccion started in 2017 with simple question: What problem do we want to solve?   Looking back on more than 20 years of work in government, commercial, and non-profit organizations we realized that many of the challenges we experienced –…

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How We Celebrate Black History Month

02/27/2024

What is the best way to celebrate #blackhistorymonth? I handle our social media at Eleccion (yes, that’s me!) and I didn’t want to just drop a post with some clip art and a few hashtags. Since we always do our…

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Supercharge Your Mission: Harnessing the Brainpower of Neurodiversity

08/15/2023

“It’s not that we need to form new organizations. It’s simply that we have to awaken to new ways of thinking. It is time to create the new models that have in them the complexity that makes the older systems…

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We CARE.

12/21/2022

We CARE. We care about our environment. We care about our culture. We care about our people. In 2022, Eleccion (ELX) was a proud recipient of the Northern Virginia Family Service (NVFS) CARE award. For 30 years, NVFS has presented the…

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Northern Virginia Science Center Partner Spotlight: Eleccion, LLC

10/24/2022

Eleccion’s Founders have been staunch supporters of the Northern Virginia Science Center Foundation since the opening of the Children’s Science Center Lab, serving as volunteers, donors, and ambassadors for STEM learning in the community. Mr. Ridley joined the Foundation’s Board…

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neXtworking Recap – The Blockchain

07/23/2021

Rampant Curiosity, as one of Eleccion’s core values, leads us to discovering trending or disruptive technologies that will change the way the world works.  So, for our most recent neXtworking session, we dove right into learning more about blockchain technology…

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neXtworking: Managing Difficult Conversations

05/21/2021

Eleccion’s innovative organizational structure doesn’t come without challenges.  As a flat, non-hierarchal organization, there can be ambiguity and uncertainty throughout—after all, where does the buck stop if there is no boss?  As we decided that the best way to manage…

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neXtworking Recap: Indulging Our Rampant Curiosity

12/01/2020

In our last neXtworking event of the year, we indulged our Rampant Curiosity through a virtual chocolate tasting and explored the world of bean-to-bar chocolate.  While past events have focused on organizational models or approaches, we recognize that there are…

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Natalie Randolph on the Science of Coaching

05/08/2020

We have all had coaches in our lives that have made an impact on us.  Whether it was a sports coach, a boss at work, or a personal mentor, coaches play a significant role in how we grow as human…

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