NGO Soul + Strategy
87 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago -Welcome to my podcast NGO Soul + Strategy – a podcast for leaders of NGOs and other philanthropic organizations who are not satisfied with the status quo, are ready to look change right in the eye and who see themselves as leader-as-learner.
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074. Can nonprofit program evaluation truly be made easy? Chari Smith
April 19, 2024 22:00 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBSummary Quite a few smaller size social sector organizations assume that program evaluation is too complex or demanding an undertaking for them. Is that the case, though? If we want to introduce program evaluation to staff, leadership, and boards who have not yet been inducted into the importance of program evaluation: what are the most effective questions to generate genuine interest in and motivation to engage in such program evaluation? How can we build a more evaluation-friendly cultu...
073. From a hub and spoke to a horizontal network model: Anu Kumar @ Ipas
March 31, 2024 14:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBSummary What are the main benefits of a network structure, where power, authority, and leadership are dispersed and shared across regions, from an effectiveness perspective? What are the most important enabling habits, practices and behaviors that go with that, as a change leader? And what are the most valuable network-related frameworks, concepts, resources, and tools at work in moving towards this structure? In this NGO Soul+Strategy podcast episode, I interview Anu Kumar, President a...
072. When nonprofits deal with internal strife: conflict mediation to the rescue with Daniel Genberg
March 15, 2024 17:00 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MBSummary Conflict within our organizations: we often don't really want to face them, but they are very much there. The result? Plenty of passive aggression to go around. What are the implications of such forms of conflict avoidance? In other NGOs on the other hand -- especially in the last few years it seems -- internal strife has come out into the open - sometimes spilling into the media in an unwanted fashion. On another note: is interest-based problem-solving still a helpful approach ...
071. Onward with reimagining INGO models: Charles Kojo Vandyck @ RINGO/WACSI
February 22, 2024 20:00 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBSummary What are some structural things that are wrong in development aid and in civil society? Which mindsets most need to be decolonized when it comes to the relationship between global South civil society organizations (CSOs) and INGOs? Global North-founded INGOs need to be reimagined. How, in turn, do global South-founded NGOs have to change to take over many roles that INGOs currently still fulfill? And how do they need to recalibrate their power relationships with INGOs? In this NG...
070. Mastering a graceful AND effective leadership exodus: Ignacio Saiz
February 07, 2024 22:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBSummary Leadership transitions are tricky -- and potentially risky -- moments in a nonprofit's life. What are the most common pitfalls or aspects that get overlooked when nonprofits -- and outgoing leaders themselves -- tackle such leadership transitions? What key strategies and tactics are essential to ensure a smooth leadership transition and maintain organizational stability? What are the habits, practices, and behaviors that are most aligned with a successful exit of an Executive Dire...
069. Navigating Organizational Politics: A Team Coach’s Guide - with Alexander Caillet @ Corentus
January 24, 2024 18:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBSummary What should I imagine, practically, when a team coach starts to support my team? What does a well-known team coach find the most rewarding about working with nonprofit teams? Can a team coach detect any differences in team behaviors or tendencies between their for-profit and nonprofit clients? In this NGO Soul+Strategy podcast episode, I interview Alexander Caillet, CEO and co-founder of Corentus, Inc., on all of the above questions, including how to navigate team behaviors ...
067. DEI trends in US development agencies, by the numbers – Shiro Gnanaselvam @ Social Impact
January 12, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 42.7 MBSummary What is the state of DEI in US-founded international development organisations (both for-profit and nonprofit), and how has this state changed since 2021? What has been the action, as compared to the professed intentions for action? In this NGO Soul+Strategy podcast episode, I interview Shiro Gnanaselvam, President and CEO at Social Impact, on DEI (Diversity, equity, and inclusion) trends in US Development agencies. Shiro’s Bio: CEO of Social Impact, a US-based mid-size...
067. Life after leadership: Sam Worthington, former President and CEO @ InterAction
December 07, 2023 23:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MBSummary What is life after leadership like? What happens to you as a person when you leave a high-powered, highly visible role in civil society? What happens with your sense of identity? Does this also perhaps touch on ego as well? What offers new meaning and purpose, when we live our life-after-leadership? In this NGO Soul+Strategy podcast episode, I interview Sam Worthington, former President and CEO at InterAction, who stepped down from a position with much positional as well as symb...
066. How to navigate the big scaling quandary: Amy Ragsdale @ Spring Impact
November 26, 2023 23:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBSummary What is scaling? And how is it different from growing? What’s the role of partner strategies or multiplier strategies in scaling? What are the implications of scaling in an era of decolonizing aid, localizing development, and shifting roles of nonprofits and NGOs, shifting power, authority and decision rights? In this NGO Soul+Strategy podcast episode, I interview Amy Ragsdale, Director at Spring Impact, a consulting, coaching and training agency specializing in scaling strategie...
065. How you should transition into a new role as a leader: Adama Coulibaly @ Oxfam
November 13, 2023 17:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBSummary What are the vital steps a senior leader have to take as they step into a new leadership role? What to do and what to expect when you are transitioning into that new role? And, separately, to what extent are African leadership models and frameworks different from global North ones? Most importantly, what could global North imprinted leadership models learn from African ones? In this NGO Soul+Strategy podcast episode, I interview Adama Coulibaly, Global Programs Director at Oxfa...
064. Positive power for organizational integrity: Bhavika Patel + Alex Cole-Hamilton
October 29, 2023 21:00 - 48 minutes - 33.7 MBSummary What should we think of when we consider organization integrity issues? How do you distinguish between positive and negative forms of power? How do we nurture power for organizational integrity? These are the fairly complex questions that we address in the podcast today. In this NGO Soul+Strategy episode, I interview Bhavika Patel, Senior Adviser for Equalities and Inclusion at Oxfam Great Britain, and Alex Cole-Hamilton, independent consultant and one of the founders of the P...
063. Decolonizing think tanks, policy research organizations and consulting agencies: Ajoy Datta
October 06, 2023 16:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBSummary How can the feelings of people who work in organizations both facilitate and suppress change? What makes people attach reputation and credibility to another person? And how does this relate to diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, and these may work out in practice? What's the problem with think tanks from the perspective of a decolonization goal, and what has been the problem historically? In this NGO Soul+Strategy podcast episode, I interview Ajoy Datta, consultant, policy...
062. Nonprofit operations CAN be a driver of transformation: Kim Kucinskas @ Humentum
September 24, 2023 17:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBSummary How should we think about the ‘collective journey to equitable development’ of Northern-founded NGOs, national NGOs and their funders? What obstacles stand in the way of continuing on that journey? Why does Humentum argue that NGO operating models need to enable ERA (Equitable, Resilient, and Accountable) development, and how does that need to come about? In this NGO Soul+Strategy podcast episode, I interview Kim Kucinskas, Director for Community Strategy at Humentum, on nonpr...
061. Between high profile civic disobedience and building broad public support: Coos van Est, Extinction Rebellion activist
July 21, 2023 17:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBSummary How does a climate change activist movement such as Extinction Rebellion (XR) chose among strategies and tactics on the spectrum between more 'radical' actions such as civic agitation, (nonviolent) disobedience, high-profile stunts that may lead to arrests and more 'mainstream' actions that may (or may not?) help them build a more broad public base? How does Extinction Rebellion (XR) see the distinction between insider and outsider strategies in climate change activism? Is it nece...
061. Between high profile civic disobedience and building broad public support: A youth activist
July 21, 2023 17:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBSummary How does a climate change activist movement such as Extinction Rebellion (XR) chose among strategies and tactics on the spectrum between more 'radical' actions such as civic agitation, (nonviolent) disobedience, high-profile stunts that may lead to arrests and more 'mainstream' actions that may (or may not?) help them build a more broad public base? How does Extinction Rebellion (XR) see the distinction between insider and outsider strategies in climate change activism? Is it nece...
060. Should climate activists pivot their campaigning strategies from agitation to broadening public support? Aseem Prakash
July 21, 2023 16:00 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBSummary Environmental activism, environmental justice and equity concerns: what, if anything, is challenging about holding all of these three concerns at the same time? Can a better integration or balance be achieved between these 3 concerns? To what extent is radical activism cyclical in nature because it is hard to keep activists motivated for peak public mobilization moments? In this NGO Soul+Strategy podcast episode, I interview Aseem Prakash, Professor of Political Science and Found...
059. Potential and peril when NGOs aspire to use a network structure: Doris Bäsler, formerly @ Oxfam
June 24, 2023 17:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBSummary What are the strengths of a confederated nonprofit organizational structure and what are its inherent weaknesses and limitations? What is a ‘diversified network’ type of organizational structure? To what extent does having a confederated organizational structure, as well as the aspiration to be a diversified network, Impact the nature, legitimacy, adaptability, and quality of decision-making? In this NGO Soul+Strategy podcast episode, I interview Doris Bäsler, formerly Oxfam, on ...
058. Can civil society get better at anticipating futures? Heather Hutchings, Danny Vannucchi and the International CS Centre
June 10, 2023 07:00 - 46 minutes - 32 MBSummary What is the difference between forecasting and foresight, as a skill and an area of work? What are the pitfalls when international civil society organizations (ICSOs) apply crisis frameworks to trends that are actually longer-term, intersecting, and systemic? Decolonization and diversity: how are these big current discussions and areas for taking action intersecting with what sometimes is called 'anticipatory capacity': the capacity to anticipate futures and know how to act in ord...
057. From transnational advocacy networks to transscalar activism: Beth Bloodgood & Chris Pallas
May 21, 2023 14:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBSummary What is ‘transscalar activism’ in a nutshell? And how is it different from what academics call the 'Boomerang' model of international advocacy NGO networks? When did international NGO advocacy begin attracting the attention of academics, and why? What had shifted at that point, what had changed? What was the dominant narrative in academia for a long time? And what was wrong with that? In this NGO Soul+Strategy podcast episode, I interview Elizabeth Bloodgood, Associate Professor ...
056. Philanthropy that’s less colonial in mindset and practices: John Hecklinger @ Global Fund for Children
May 08, 2023 19:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBSummary What’s problematic about philanthropy in the ways the sector has practiced it for many decades? Are there limits to trust-based philanthropy? How do boards of grant-making philanthropies such as the Global Fund for Children have to change their composition, mindset, and oversight practices to lessen a compliance and upward accountability lens and to make themselves more responsive to actual needs? In this NGO Soul+Strategy podcast episode, I interview John Hecklinger, Presiden...
055. Digital advocacy NGOs: a necessary, complementary force: Nina Hall
April 26, 2023 19:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MBSummary What are the characteristics of 'digitally native' campaigning organizations? How do digital NGO campaigning organizations compare and contrast with traditional, 'brick and mortar' NGOs? Do digitally native civil society organizations and traditional NGOs sufficiently seek to complement each other, in order to maximize impact? I don't think they do. In this NGO Soul+Strategy podcast episode, I interview Nina Hall, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Johns Hopkin...
054. NGO scandals: causes, consequences and prevention + recovery strategies: Cassandra Chapman
April 04, 2023 00:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MBSummary INGOs have been rocked by scandals and allegations of abuse of power, discrimination etc. in the last 5-10 years. What kind of different types of scandals can we distinguish in our sector? Which factors that affect nonprofit scandals remain understudied? What's the distinction between integrity violations and competency violations? And should we be getting more concerned as a sector about the latter In this NGO Soul+Strategy podcast episode, I interview Cassandra Chapman, Assoc...
053. Change is not a project: Hazem Fahmy on CARE Egypt’s Country Office transition towards full membership
March 19, 2023 13:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBSummary A number of NGOs have aimed to strengthen their global legitimacy by adding more global South members/affiliates. Is this truly a valuable strategy? Does it help with legitimacy to be more 'globally balanced'? What are the hard lessons learned about how to manage this process? And how do local civil society as well as government respond? Hazem Fahmy, the CEO of the CARE Egypt Foundation and former Country Director of CARE USA-line managed Egypt Country Office, is an excellent sour...
052. Influence and power in complex NGOs: leadership insights from John Samuel @ Oxfam
February 18, 2023 12:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBSummary What is most difficult or challenging about operating as a leader in a place like Oxfam? What does it take to lead from a political frame in NGOs? Rational persuasion: is it overrated? In this NGO Soul+Strategy podcast episode, I interview John Samuel, Oxfam Asia Regional Director on influence and power in complex NGOs. John is an expert on Organizational Development. He is also the founder of Bodhigram, an Indian grassroots social movement, John’s Bio: Regional Director ...
051. Charity Navigator's changing expectations and its impacts on US nonprofit behaviors: Michael Thatcher, Charity Navigator's CEO
February 03, 2023 00:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBCharity Navigator is a free online resource for US-based donors, an intermediary rating agency with 11 million unique users per year. It currently rates just about 200.000 US-registered nonprofits, both domestic and internationally operating ones, and is quite influential in driving the behavior of donors and, indirectly, of nonprofits that are rated on the platform. Charity Navigator has changed the indicators with which it rates nonprofits in significant ways in the past 10 years - and mo...
050. Innovation in social change organizations: shepherds or adopters? Emma Proud
January 13, 2023 18:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBSummary Welcome to our 50th podcast episode! In this episode, we continue to zero in on what it takes to adopt and shepherd innovation through social change organizations. I interview Emma Proud, head of Learning and Adapting at Brink, an agency that coaches and consults on behavioral innovation approaches. Emma’s Bio: Head of Learning and Adapting at Brink Former Director of Organizational Agility at MercyCorps Director for Center for Adaptive Management at MercyCorps Emma played...
049. Women and positional power in faith based NGOs: Martha Holley Newsome @ Medical Teams Int.
December 13, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 63.7 MBSummary What are the strengths of faith-based organizations that secular NGOs may have reason to covet? On the other hand, what weaknesses or potential blind spots may faith-based organizations face? And is there anything specific, or ‘typical’ about being a woman top leader in a faith-based NGO? In this NGO Soul+Strategy podcast episode, I interview Martha Holley Newsome, President & CEO of Medical Teams International, and we talk among others about women and positional power in faith-...
048. How to kindle innovation in large development agencies: Soren Vester Haldrup @ UNDP
December 03, 2022 00:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBSummary Do you work in a large NGO or UN agency, and wonder how the heck you are supposed to stimulate innovations in such a sizable, potentially quite bureaucratic organization? Do you assume that organization size and structure matter when it comes to creating a good climate for innovation? And is lack of innovation funds as big an issue as we make it out to be? In this podcast episode, I interview Soren Vester Haldrup, Innovation Fund Manager at UNDP, on how to kindle innovation in la...
047. Crisis leadership skills during war: Pact's Alyona Gerasimova in Ukraine
November 19, 2022 00:00 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MBSummary Leadership in crisis contexts. Many NGOs regularly work in contexts of crisis, or war. The war in Ukraine was one of those contexts, and it led quite a few NGOs to reallocate programming resources toward the Ukrainian population. PACT is a US-founded NGO which has worked in Ukraine for many years. In this podcast episode, I took the opportunity to ask Alyona Gerasimova, its Country Director, a number of things related to leadership skills, behaviors and actions in crisis. What le...
046. Signaling your financial trustworthiness lowers your NGOs impact by half: George Mitchell and Thad Calabrese
October 19, 2022 22:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBSummary Did you know.... When nonprofits signal they are financially trustworthy, they actually give up to half of their potential impact. Why is this "financial trustworthiness signaling behavior” so pervasive, when it has this high a cost? In this podcast episode, I interview George Mitchell, Professor of Nonprofit Management at Baruch College, City University of New York – and a long-time collaborator, including on our book (Between Power and Irrelevance: the Future of Transnational...
045. What we as NGO leaders need to do to spur innovation: Dermot O'Gorman @ WWF Australia
October 06, 2022 00:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBSummary What can we learn from civil society leaders who wish to spur the adoption and implementation of innovations? How do humans – within organizations, and particularly in NGOs – react to change? What is the best advice when leading NGOs through innovation, from a senior team leader’s perspective? Today, I am interviewing Dermot O'Gorman of WWF Australia on the do's can don'ts of NGO leadership when it comes to promoting innovation. Dermot’s Bio: Global Leader in Innovation for...
044. Disability rights: how NGOs go about actually claiming them - Susan Sygall @ Mobility International USA
August 09, 2022 21:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MBSummary Why has it taken so long to mainstream disabled people's concerns, when 15% of the global population has some form of disability? Has it been helpful to see disability integrated into Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) approaches -- or have there been some downsides to this approach? Are there disadvantages to being perceived as a single-issue organization (i.e. disabled people’s organizations)? Today, I am interviewing Susan Sygall of Mobility International USA (MIUSA) about...
043. How I practice virtual leadership in a complex membership organization - Lysa John @ CIVICUS
August 04, 2022 21:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBSummary What works in establishing personal relationships and developing trust and bonding in the virtual space, when we as leaders have never met our colleagues face to face? Some NGO leaders and managers started their jobs at the beginning of the pandemic and led entirely virtually for a long stretch - onboarding, developing personal relationships, bonding, trust development - the whole deal. Lysa John, Secretary General at CIVICUS knows a thing or two about this. So I was really curi...
042. Feminist leadership: organizational practices to make it real -- Kirthi Jayakumar & Leila Billing
July 08, 2022 21:00 - 39 minutes - 27.5 MBSummary Today, I am interviewing Kirthi Jayakumar of World Pulse and founder of the Gender Security Project, and Leila Billing, senior advisor on youth, gender, and social movement building on Feminist Leadership. Leila, along with Natalie Brook, runs an open enrollment Feminist Leadership training program (We are Feminist Leaders), and Kirthi is one of its alumni. As some NGOs and development organizations have embraced, how much of its subversive elements get diluted and cooptated; and h...
041. Rest, reset, resilience: how my mind journeyed when I took a sabbatical - Chris Proulx @ Humentum
June 26, 2022 21:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBSummary What happens when NGO leaders take a 4 months sabbatical? What happens to the mind -- what journey does it go on during a 4 month's rest from work? What happens, especially when we are talking about a leader who was already quite steeped in mindfulness and meditation before he started his sabbatical? In this podcast episode, I discuss with Chris Proulx, Global Director at Humentum the topic of rest, reset, reflection, and personal resilience when leaders take an extensive break...
040. Can NGOs Stay Human-Centered while Embracing Smart Tech? Beth Kanter and Allison Fine
June 13, 2022 15:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBSummary The new generation of 'smart technology' - chatbots, AI, machine learning, natural language processing, robots etc. can bring major benefits to nonprofits - if they can discern what they need to do to remain human-centered in their choice of technology. And if they remain aware of the potential for bias in AI-generated data, given its profound potential negative impact? What can nonprofits – who are frequently not digital natives, let alone coders themselves – do to protect thems...
039. How NGO CEOs are thinking about operating model changes, right now: Christine Sow of Humentum
May 31, 2022 17:00 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBSummary Christine Sow is the CEO of Humentum, a global support organization for NGOs who wish to enhance their operational performance. Humentum helps NGOs translate their aspirations into operating models that give them the ability to deliver on those aspirations. In that capacity, and given that Humentum among others facilitates peer sharing among CEOs on lessons learned in improving operating models, she has the perfect perch to give us a sense of what types of change CEOs currently are...
038. Exploring Possible Futures for Conservation NGOs: Anca Damerell @ Luc Hoffman Institute
May 09, 2022 23:00 - 52 minutes - 36 MBSummary What is the future for conservation NGOs? Is there a future? If so, what kinds of roles, mandates, organizational culture, and capabilities do conservation NGOs of the future need to embrace? That was the question that a small team of consultants, including yours truly, tried to address by providing 15 - sometimes bold -- propositions for changes in roles and mandates. In this episode, I interview Anca Damerell, Head of Programme at the Luc Hoffmann Institute, and in turn,...
037. We need to rethink the 'virtue narrative' surrounding NGOs: Aseem Prakash
April 21, 2022 17:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBSummary Why might the assumptions we frequently make about the ‘virtue narrative’ that surrounds NGOs be problematic? Aren't they meant to create social good in the world? In this podcast episode, I discuss this with Aseem Prakash, a well-known academic who focuses on nonprofits as well as on environmental activism, particularly focused on climate change. Aseem wrote an article, problematizing exactly this ‘virtue narrative’ surrounding NGOs. Aseem’s Bio: Professor at the University of ...
036. Why the NGO Halo Effect is problematic: a conversation with Isabel De Bruin Cardoso
April 08, 2022 23:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBSummary What is the 'halo effect' when it comes to NGOs, and why does it matter? Here's a rough definition of ‘the halo effectj. The term comes out of the psychological academic literature: if the first impression of a person or an entity is positive for a person, this tends to stick with people. This tends to be the case for NGOs: NGOs are assumed to be ‘good’; thus they are glorified. And why can this be problematic? Because when NGOs are assumed to be 'good' (i.e. morally, ethically go...
035. Chasing impact - ever more elusive? One more exchange with Chris of MZN
March 06, 2022 18:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBTosca is in conversation with Christian Meyer zu Natrup, Managing Director of MzN International, a boutique consulting firm that focuses both on nonprofits in international development, and on businesses that wish to do good, in this final episode of our 3 part joint podcast series. The other 2 episodes cover ‘Chasing innovation’ (episode #33) and ‘Chasing funding’' (episode #34). Summary Nonprofits are here to solve complex problems. But can they? Where is the impact? And why do some...
034. How to generate greater innovation capability in your nonprofit: observations of an innovation coach
February 20, 2022 15:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBSummary NGOs are sometimes labeled fairly critically as 'dinosaurs' or 'legacy organizations'. How can they create a more innovation-ready or innovation-friendly culture? What can NGOs learn from other types of organizations when it comes to generating more innovation, either in the broader civil society sector or outside of it? What stands in the way, in terms of organizational structures, processes, or ways of working when NGOs struggle? Leadership mindsets? In this podcast episod...
033. Chasing funding - will it ever end? A back-and-forth with Chris of MZN
February 07, 2022 22:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBTosca is in conversation with Christian Meyer zu Natrup, Managing Director of MzN International, in the second episode of our 3 part, joint podcast series. The other 2 episodes cover ‘Chasing Innovation’ (episode #032) and ‘Chasing impact’ (episode #34, expected to be aired around Feb 23). Summary Good projects/programs need good funding. But why do some organizations continue to grow and some stagnate? And is growth even a good or necessary thing in this era of a renewed look at the app...
032. Chasing Innovation: can we do better as NGOs? In discussion with Chris Meyer of MzN International
January 23, 2022 00:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBTosca is in conversation with Christian Meyer zu Natrup, Managing Director of MzN International, in the first episode of of a three-part podcast series. The other two episodes which will air in February 2022 will cover ‘Chasing Funding’ and ‘Chasing Impact’ Summary Are INGOs inherently inefficient, slow and lack innovation to the point that they will go, or ought to go, extinct? And if not, what should leaders do to transform their organisations into solution providers at a time when the ...
031. What you can do to excel in virtual team leadership: Monica Maassen @ Oxfam
November 26, 2021 16:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBSummary Monica is a change management specialist par excellence. She is also thoughtful about all things management and leadership. How does she see the linkages between change management and virtual/hybrid team leadership - something we all got thrown into big time in the last 2 years (if we did not already practice it before)? What is the biggest thing(s) we may be missing about not working in a co-located team, and what is it that we may not miss that much? What are the biggest dif...
030. Reinventing social change by overcoming self-limiting belief systems: Nell Edgington
November 13, 2021 23:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBSummary Nell Edgington, a well known American consultant who serves US domestic nonprofits is of the opinion that nonprofit leaders maintain too many self-limiting beliefs and mindsets. In her new book 'Reinventing social change: Embracing abundance to create a healthier and more equitable world' she explains how these self-limiting beliefs have seeped into the collective mindset and DNA of the nonprofit sector. In the book, Nell strongly advocates for abundance thinking -- instead of sc...
029. Potential and peril when NGOs collaborate with social movements: May Miller-Dawkins
October 08, 2021 16:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBSummary What are the biggest limitations social movements encounter, time and again? What are the good examples of positive collaboration between INGOs and social movements? And what characteristics, what attributes made that collaboration positive? In this podcast episode, I discussed with May Miller-Dawkins about the potential and peril when NGOs collaborate with social movements. May’s Bio: Researcher, advocate and facilitator, working with social movements, NGOs, found...
028. Strategic planning when your CSO faces fundamental uncertainties: Dave Algoso, facilitator & consultant
September 25, 2021 14:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBSummary How has strategic planning changed during the pandemic? What are general blind spots when it comes to strategic planning in our social sector? What are jazzy new approaches to strategic planning that civil society organizations should consider? And what are the warning signs, as a strategy consultant, that tell you you should not get involved? In this podcast episode, I discuss with Dave Algoso, strategy facilitator and consultant 'par excellence', how civil society organization...
027. People, resistance to new ideas and the power of removing friction: interview with Loran Nordgren
September 11, 2021 13:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBSummary Why do people resist new ideas, including inside organizations, and including with regard to organizational change initiatives? And what can we as change managers/leaders do about this? What's more important: making your new idea more 'shiny', more attractive, or removing obstacles that stand in the way of people accepting new ideas? Would resistance to new ideas play out differently in the nonprofit sector as compared to others? What does ‘neophobia’ mean, and does it apply as m...
026. Right Work and Right Team: how the Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative (BRAC) is aspiring to become a truly diverse, global entity - Rasha Natour
July 22, 2021 10:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MBSummary What are the advantages and disadvantages (if any) when an organization is in a position to start almost as if with a new slate after a large core grant infusion, and thus can propel an ambitious DEI agenda? And how do local authorities and national governments in global South countries respond to a localization push by an initiative like the Ultra Poor Graduation Initiative, part of the large Bangladesh-founded NGO BRAC? In this episode, we talk with Rasha Natour, Senior Advo...