Welcome to our Peacebuilding Volunteer Profiles – where we can get to know some of the folks who have offered their time, energy, and expertise to the Peacebuilding Movement. Interested in volunteering or offering your skills? Contact Chris Miller — chris@abrahamicreunion.org.
Since September, 2021, Tom Gilb has been helping the Abrahamic Reunion in its Strategic Business Planning. He’s worked with major corporations, governments, created planning systems using what he terms, “planguage” (planning + language), and seeks to bring clarity, insight, and achievability to goals – even if they seem nebulous or idealistic (think: “peace”) – by breaking concepts down into defined and reachable goals. For a good idea about Tom, you can check out his TED Talk. It’s an honor and pleasure to have Tom advising our Strategic Planning Team. Thanks, Tom. – Chris Miller
Name: Tom Gilb
Where you live: Near Oslo Norway
Religion: Unitarian
Favorite Food: Seafood, ice cream
How do you take your coffee?: Sugar and milk, unlike Norwegians, who take it black
Date you started volunteering: 2021
What you do, professional background: www.Gilb.com, Develop methods for planning and teach, consult, write about them. Internationally
What you’ve done as a volunteer / title of your internship position:
Coached 2 excellent volunteers to do business planning, with deeper thinking than usual about AR Objectives, strategies and priorities.
How you found out about the Abrahamic Reunion:
From a Board Member friend
Why do you volunteer for the AR?
I like to help good causes in general, and this was in my professional domain.
What is your favorite thing about the AR?
Its heart is in the right place, and the methods are practical.
A moment with the AR or at an event, while volunteering, something you’ve read, that you remember and stuck with you:
When AR leaders, and the volunteer planners feel that we are doing something that makes AR more effective.
How has the Abrahamic Reunion changed you or your perspective?
Well, I did not know about it, and now I am getting more insights.
Your 1-sentence thought on, or prayer for peace, interfaith, or peacebuilding:
Each individual can at least do their best to nudge us all forward towards a better world.
Anything else you’d like to say, or for people to know about you?
I am retired and always happy to help people learn and practice my methods. Here is a starter kit for everyone:
This link below is a free copy of the ‘Life Design’ booklet by me, Tom Gilb.
Because you are a colleague in AR, you may share your copy with a friend.
Click Here for a free copy of ‘Life Design’
