What are multiple stakeholders?

A stakeholder is someone who cares about what happens in a situation, like when you're playing a game and your friends are also playing it.

Imagine you and your friends are building the biggest sandcastle on the beach. You all work together, but each person has their own job: one brings buckets, another digs for water, and another picks out the best seashells. In this case, multiple stakeholders mean that more than one person, or group, is involved and cares about how things turn out.

Each friend wants the sandcastle to be perfect in their own way:

• You want the tower to be tall.
• Your friend with the buckets wants it to look fancy.
• The shell picker wants all the best shells on top.

So even though you're all working together, each of you has a different goal. That’s what happens when there are multiple stakeholders, everyone has something important to say and wants things to go their way! A stakeholder is someone who cares about what happens in a situation, like when you're playing a game and your friends are also playing it.

Imagine you and your friends are building the biggest sandcastle on the beach. You all work together, but each person has their own job: one brings buckets, another digs for water, and another picks out the best seashells. In this case, multiple stakeholders mean that more than one person, or group, is involved and cares about how things turn out.