NGO Soul + Strategy
By Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken
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Episodes: 97
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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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096: Leading Change at Scale: Oxfam International’s Journey with Amitabh Behar
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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095: Time and Talent: Navigating the Nonprofit Sector’s Greatest Strategic Assets with Doug Trout
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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094. Breaking the Barriers to Innovation: Carlos Simon on Organizational Culture & Change in NGOs
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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093. Feminist Leadership in Action: A Conversation with Jayanta Bora
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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092. How Culture Is Reality: Rethinking NGO Safeguarding with Andrew Henck
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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091. “$10M Landed in Our Account”—What Nonprofits Must Know About Transformational Gifts and Sudden Growth with Michael Randel
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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090. Technology, Land Rights, and Leadership: A Conversation with Amy Coughenour Betancourt, CEO of Cadasta
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May 12, 2025 |
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089: "I AM A CHANGE MAN”: How Arnold Dix Applied An Iconoclastic Leadership Approach at the International Tunnelling Association
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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088. When You Have to Wind Down Your Nonprofit: How to do It Well, with Amy Miller-Taylor
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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087. Coaching Leaders Through An African Lens: Nankhonde Kasonde-Van Den Broek
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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086: The Modern Development Leader, How to Manage Change and All That: Torrey and Tosca in Conversation Part 2
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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085: The Modern Development Leader, How to Manage Change and All That: Torrey and Tosca in Conversation Part 1
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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084: Towards Ubuntu 2.0? A Wide-Ranging Leadership Conversation with Martin Kalungu-Banda
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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083: African Solutions for African Problems: Consulting Strategies with Faye Ekong @ RavelWorks
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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082: Human Emotions in a Poly-Crisis: How To Get To More Effective NGO Campaigning with Diya Deb @ MindWorks
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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081. Leadership Lessons From African Cultures, With Albert Momo
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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080. Avoid These Leadership Mistakes When Managing Organizational Change With Michael Randel
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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079. Leadership in Africa Redefined With Taaka Awori of Busara Africa
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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078. Which INGO Roles Are Still Legitimate, Relevant, and Needed (and Which No Longer): Dylan Mathews @ Peace Direct
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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077. Let’s Work Through This: Conflict Mediation in Social Sector Organizations With Nathalie Thompson
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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076. Trends in Direct Fundraising: Keeping It Real With Erica Waasdorp
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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075. What Happens When a Start-Up Nurtures an Evidence-Based Culture: The Taimaka Project
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May 14, 2024 |
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074. Can Nonprofit Program Evaluation Truly Be Made Easy? Chari Smith
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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073. From a Hub and Spoke to a Horizontal Network Model: Anu Kumar @ Ipas
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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072. When Nonprofits Deal With Internal Strife: Conflict Mediation to the Rescue With Daniel Genberg
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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071. Onward With Reimagining INGO Models: Charles Kojo Vandyck @ RINGO/WACSI
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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070. Mastering a graceful AND effective leadership exodus: Ignacio Saiz
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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069. Navigating Organizational Politics: A Team Coach’s Guide - with Alexander Caillet @ Corentus
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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067. DEI trends in US development agencies, by the numbers – Shiro Gnanaselvam @ Social Impact
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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067. Life after leadership: Sam Worthington, former President and CEO @ InterAction
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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066. How to navigate the big scaling quandary: Amy Ragsdale @ Spring Impact
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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065. How you should transition into a new role as a leader: Adama Coulibaly @ Oxfam
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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064. Positive power for organizational integrity: Bhavika Patel + Alex Cole-Hamilton
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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063. Decolonizing think tanks, policy research organizations and consulting agencies: Ajoy Datta
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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062. Nonprofit operations CAN be a driver of transformation: Kim Kucinskas @ Humentum
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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061. Between high profile civic disobedience and building broad public support: A youth activist
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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060. Should climate activists pivot their campaigning strategies from agitation to broadening public support? Aseem Prakash
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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059. Potential and peril when NGOs aspire to use a network structure: Doris Bäsler, formerly @ Oxfam
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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058. Can civil society get better at anticipating futures? Heather Hutchings, Danny Vannucchi and the International CS Centre
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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057. From transnational advocacy networks to transscalar activism: Beth Bloodgood & Chris Pallas
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May 21, 2023 |
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056. Philanthropy that’s less colonial in mindset and practices: John Hecklinger @ Global Fund for Children
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May 08, 2023 |
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055. Digital advocacy NGOs: a necessary, complementary force: Nina Hall
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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054. NGO scandals: causes, consequences and prevention + recovery strategies: Cassandra Chapman
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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053. Change is not a project: Hazem Fahmy on CARE Egypt’s Country Office transition towards full membership
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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052. Influence and power in complex NGOs: leadership insights from John Samuel @ Oxfam
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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051. Charity Navigator's changing expectations and its impacts on US nonprofit behaviors: Michael Thatcher, Charity Navigator's CEO
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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050. Innovation in social change organizations: shepherds or adopters? Emma Proud
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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049. Women and positional power in faith based NGOs: Martha Holley Newsome @ Medical Teams Int.
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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048. How to kindle innovation in large development agencies: Soren Vester Haldrup @ UNDP
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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047. Crisis leadership skills during war: Pact's Alyona Gerasimova in Ukraine
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Nov 19, 2022 |
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046. Signaling your financial trustworthiness lowers your NGOs impact by half: George Mitchell and Thad Calabrese
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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045. What we as NGO leaders need to do to spur innovation: Dermot O'Gorman @ WWF Australia
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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044. Disability rights: how NGOs go about actually claiming them - Susan Sygall @ Mobility International USA
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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043. How I practice virtual leadership in a complex membership organization - Lysa John @ CIVICUS
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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042. Feminist leadership: organizational practices to make it real -- Kirthi Jayakumar & Leila Billing
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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041. Rest, reset, resilience: how my mind journeyed when I took a sabbatical - Chris Proulx @ Humentum
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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040. Can NGOs Stay Human-Centered while Embracing Smart Tech? Beth Kanter and Allison Fine
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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039. How NGO CEOs are thinking about operating model changes, right now: Christine Sow of Humentum
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May 31, 2022 |
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038. Exploring Possible Futures for Conservation NGOs: Anca Damerell @ Luc Hoffman Institute
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May 09, 2022 |
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037. We need to rethink the 'virtue narrative' surrounding NGOs: Aseem Prakash
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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036. Why the NGO Halo Effect is problematic: a conversation with Isabel De Bruin Cardoso
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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035. Chasing impact - ever more elusive? One more exchange with Chris of MZN
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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034. How to generate greater innovation capability in your nonprofit: observations of an innovation coach
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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033. Chasing funding - will it ever end? A back-and-forth with Chris of MZN
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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032. Chasing Innovation: can we do better as NGOs? In discussion with Chris Meyer of MzN International
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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031. What you can do to excel in virtual team leadership: Monica Maassen @ Oxfam
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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030. Reinventing social change by overcoming self-limiting belief systems: Nell Edgington
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Nov 13, 2021 |
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029. Potential and peril when NGOs collaborate with social movements: May Miller-Dawkins
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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028. Strategic planning when your CSO faces fundamental uncertainties: Dave Algoso, facilitator & consultant
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Sep 25, 2021 |
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027. People, resistance to new ideas and the power of removing friction: interview with Loran Nordgren
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Sep 11, 2021 |
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026. Right Work and Right Team: how the Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative (BRAC) is aspiring to become a truly diverse, global entity - Rasha Natour
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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025. Gabriela (Oxfam), Julia (ActionAid), and Sofia (CARE): a celebration of Latina women's leadership
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Jun 05, 2021 |
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024. Organizational ethics, integrity, power and governance: Alex Cole-Hamilton
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May 13, 2021 |
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023. What's a feminist leader to do about social power in organizations: Srilatha Batliwala
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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022. How to lead organizational change when you are the first person of color in top leadership: Dorothy Nyambi, CEO of MEDA
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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021. Positional power games and ‘feminist bureaucrats’ in multilateral organizations: Joanne Sandler's observations
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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020. Feminist leadership and 'deep power structures’ within organizations: Aruna Rao, co-founder of Gender at Work
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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019. Politics, power and feminist leadership within NGOs - Lisa Veneklasen's take on things
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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018. Power as finite resource or as unlimited good: Paul O’Brien at Oxfam America on influencing NGOs
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Dec 19, 2020 |
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017. What's all this talk about feminist leadership? An interview with Abby Maxman, CEO, Oxfam America
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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016. ‘Mergers and Acquisitions are in the air’: a discussion with two Plan USA NGO leaders who lived to tell the tale
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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015. Not your usual NGO strategy process: Oxfam's recent experience with strategy formation and whether it is holding up during this massive disruption
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Aug 02, 2020 |
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014. Between Power and Irrelevance: what *is* the future of transnational NGOs? An conversation with my two 'co-conspirators' on the book
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Jul 19, 2020 |
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013. INGO leadership responses during hard times: a joint podcast episode with the International Civil Society Center
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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012. NGO change management tips from a pro. A conversation with Barney Tallack
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Jun 20, 2020 |
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011.NGO campaigns miss how humans process difficult emotions. Listen to Stefan Flothmann of Greenpeace to learn how to fix this
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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010. NGO Mergers + Acquisitions: an interview with Rick Santos, a CEO who lived to tell the story
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May 10, 2020 |
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009. How nonprofits can be more performance-focused, and why diversity, equity and inclusion is part and parcel of such a business plan: an interview with Tammy Dowley-Blackman
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Apr 25, 2020 |
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008. Continuous improvement together: the case for Constituent Voice - a conversation with David Bonbright of Keystone Accountability
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Mar 22, 2020 |
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007. Are NGOs subject to the dynamic of ‘successful failure’? A conversation with George Mitchell of Baruch College, City University of New York
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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005. Measuring social change: advice by Alnoor Ebrahim, nonprofit accountability expert
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Mar 14, 2020 |
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006. Organizational learning as one way to get to a stronger outcome-orientation: interview with two powerhouses
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Mar 14, 2020 |
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004. A consultant’s observations in helping leaders navigate big organizational change – interview with Ed Boswell of Conner Advisory
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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003. Reflections by Sarah Ralston, long time change manager in CARE's 2020 change process
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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002. Interview with Ramesh Singh regarding his change leadership at ActionAid and Greenpeace
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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001. Lessons from a long time change manager: Monica Maassen, Oxfam International
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Feb 09, 2020 |
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Announcement launch podcast: NGO Soul + Strategy
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Feb 08, 2020 |