Podcasts by NGO Soul + Strategy

031. What you can do to excel in virtual team leadership: Monica Maassen @ Oxfam from 2021-11-26T11:00

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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 ...

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030. Reinventing social change by overcoming self-limiting belief systems: Nell Edgington from 2021-11-13T18:00

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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 m...

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029. Potential and peril when NGOs collaborate with social movements: May Miller-Dawkins from 2021-10-08T12:00

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What are the biggest limitations social movements encounter, time and again?

 What are the good examples of positive collaboration between INGOs and social moveme...

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028. Strategic planning when your CSO faces fundamental uncertainties: Dave Algoso, facilitator&consultant from 2021-09-25T10:00

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• 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 ...
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027. People, resistance to new ideas and the power of removing friction: interview with Loran Nordgren from 2021-09-11T09:00

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Why do people resist new ideas, including inside organizations, and including with regard to organizational change initiatives? And what can we as change managers/leade...

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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 from 2021-07-22T06:00

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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 t...

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025. Gabriela (Oxfam), Julia (ActionAid), and Sofia (CARE): a celebration of Latina women's leadership from 2021-06-05T16:00

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How often does it happen that three of the biggest INGOs are all headed by three Latina women. Not often -- and definitely a reason to celebrate.

Sofia...

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024. Organizational ethics, integrity, power and governance: Alex Cole-Hamilton from 2021-05-13T17:00

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What is wrong with the current approach to organizational ethics and integrity in NGOs?

Why is using a lens of power analysis so helpful to bring INGO gover...

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023. What's a feminist leader to do about social power in organizations: Srilatha Batliwala from 2021-04-30T17:00

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What is social power? And how does this concept relate to Feminist Leadership? And how does it show up in organizational dynamics within civil society organizatio...

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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 from 2021-04-02T14:00

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Dorothy Nyambi took on the top leadership role in MEDA two years ago as the only person of color in the senior leadership team. She since then has led change with...

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021. Positional power games and ‘feminist bureaucrats’ in multilateral organizations: Joanne Sandler's observations from 2021-03-19T19:00

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How does Feminist Leadership  ‘perform’ when a leader has to make hard choices?

How well has feminist leadership served organizations during the past year of the pa...

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020. Feminist leadership and'deep power structures’ within organizations: Aruna Rao, co-founder of Gender at Work from 2021-02-02T12:00

What are the political or other strategies and tactics that a feminist leader can use to analyze the presence of ‘deep structures’ of power within organizations?

What can a feminist leader...

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019. Politics, power and feminist leadership within NGOs - Lisa Veneklasen's take on things from 2021-01-07T16:00

Organizational leaders have to balance competing values. What kind of worthy values and interests might ‘compete’ with those called for by Feminist Leadership (FL) and how should leaders resolve...

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#018. Power as finite resource or as unlimited good: Paul O’Brien at Oxfam America on influencing NGOs from 2020-12-19T18:00

What's a global North-founded influencing NGO to do to stay relevant, credible, and effective? 

 

And should influencing NGOs see power as an infinite resource -- that can be gr...

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017. What's all this talk about feminist leadership? An interview with Abby Maxman, CEO, Oxfam America from 2020-11-19T14:00

What’s all this talk about feminist leadership? An interview with Abby Maxman, Oxfam America’s CEO

 

Feminist leadership seems to be in ascendance in the INGO sector. Now, our...

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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 from 2020-09-13T20:00

In this interview with Tessie San Martin and Constantin Abarbieritei, CEO and Chief Operating Officer, respectively, at Plan USA, we discuss what lessons they learned in lea...

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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 from 2020-08-02T15:00

Interview with Muthoni Muriu and Doris Basler of Oxfam about their ambitious, innovative, bottom-up Oxfam strategy process, which was approved at the onset of the global pandemic

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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 from 2020-07-19T16:00

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Tosca focuses on her new book ‘Between Power and Irrelevance: the Future of Transnational NGOs’, which she co-authored with George Mitchell and Hans Peter Schmit...

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013. INGO leadership responses during hard times: a joint podcast episode with the International Civil Society Center from 2020-07-05T22:00

As NGO community we are staring into the unknown, and as Bob Johansen of the Institute for the Future, memorably, said recently: " Listen

012. NGO change management tips from a pro. A conversation with Barney Tallack from 2020-06-20T17:00

NGO change management is challenging - to say the least. A conversation with Barney Tallack to help you learn from a pro

Bio Barney Tallack

• Principal Consulta...
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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 from 2020-06-08T11:00

In this episode, I discuss with Stefan Flothmann, who heads Greenpeace's MindWorks Cognitive Science Lab, how campaign designs miss how humans process difficult and negative emotions, and h...

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010. NGO Mergers + Acquisitions: an interview with Rick Santos, a CEO who lived to tell the story from 2020-05-10T13:00

Are more Mergers and Acquisitions in NGOs’ futures? And is that a good thing? An interview with Rick Santos, a CEO who lived to tell the story 

 

Bio Rick Santos 

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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 from 2020-04-25T17:00

Tammy Dowley-Blackman is a seasoned and dynamite consultant in the domestic US nonprofit management and effectiveness space, who I look up to. In this interview, Tammy shares: 

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008. Continuous improvement together: the case for Constituent Voice - a conversation with David Bonbright of Keystone Accountability from 2020-03-21T22:00

David Bonbright, co-founder and Chief Executive of Keystone Accountability, an international charity dedicated to bringing constituent feedback to social change practice. 

In this i...

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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 from 2020-03-20T17:00

George Mitchell, professor at Baruch College at the City University of New York, USA, is one of my long time collaborators, a dear friend and one of those wonderful academics wi...

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006. Organizational learning as one way to get to a stronger outcome-orientation: interview with two powerhouses from 2020-03-14T19:00

What organizational dynamics cause NGOs and funders to make overblown outcome statements?  

In this interview with Julia Coffman and Tanya Beer of the Center for Evaluation Inno...

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