Beverly Wenger-Trayner is a social learning theorist and consultant known for her work with international organizations. She has been working for over twenty years with organizations to convene social learning systems, facilitate events, and develop social media strategies, particularly when it is to bring together people from different cultures, professions, or perspectives in the service of a common goal.

Brought up in Kenya, living most of her life in Portugal but with ten-year stints in the UK and the US, she is a cross-boundary person herself. Once an activist for international equitable development, her passion has matured into an intellectual drive to help people and institutions get better at making a difference. Recently, she acted as learning consultant for the World Bank on a long-term development project in Africa. Her report on using the value-creation framework in this project has attracted the attention of practitioners and evaluators across the international development community.

Beverly is co-founder of the Social Learning Lab in Sesimbra, Portugal. This is a social learning space for hosting workshops, events, and retreats for people across the world – in-person and online. The purpose of the lab is to develop social learning theory, practice, and leadership with the hope of becoming an inflection point for small and big stories about learning to make a difference. She has co-authored three books – Learning to make a difference: value-creation in social learning spaces, Systems convening: a crucial form of leadership for the 21st century, and a Guidebook for communities of practice.