
096: Leading Change at Scale: Oxfam International’s Journey with Amitabh Behar
Summary In this final episode of NGO Soul + Strategy , Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken sits down with Amitabh Behar , Executive Director of Oxfam...
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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 t...

Summary In this final episode of NGO Soul + Strategy , Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken sits down with Amitabh Behar , Executive Director of Oxfam...

Summary In this episode, I am joined by Doug Trout , CEO of DRi Waterstone Human Capital, to explore how nonprofit organizations can better...

Summary Innovation is often treated as a buzzword—but few nonprofit leaders take a hard look at the cultural, structural, and leadership obs...

Summary: What does it really mean to lead through a feminist lens? In this episode of NGO Soul + Strategy , I sit down with Jayanta Bora, a...

In this episode, I speak with Andrew Henck, a scholar-practitioner whose recent PhD research offers a nuanced take on organizational culture...

What happens when your nonprofit receives a transformational gift—seemingly out of the blue? In this episode, change management expert Micha...

Show Notes Summary Land rights are at the heart of building a sustainable and equitable future. Yet securing these rights—especially for mar...

Summary The International Tunnelling Association (ITA) plays a critical role in global infrastructure, ensuring clean water, sewage systems,...

Summary What does it take to lead an organization through a responsible and strategic closure? In this episode, I speak with Amy Miller-Tayl...

Western coaching models weren’t built for African leaders. So Nankhonde Kasonde , a Zambian international development as well as a leadershi...

Summary: What are the attributes of the modern humanitarian and development leader? Why modern? In what ways? How does one become one? Torre...

Summary: This is part one of a two-part conversation between two podcast hosts: Torrey Peace and myself. Torrey’s podcast is The Modern Huma...

Summary What does the concept of Ubuntu teach us about leadership, community, and the well-being of people in organizations? How can African...

Summary How does an African management consulting company that expressly sets itself up to offer African solutions to African problems commu...

Summary How can nonprofit organizations leverage human emotions to enhance the impact of their campaigns? What can NGOs learn from cognitive...

Summary What are the key principles of African leadership that nonprofit leaders globally could benefit from adopting? How does the African...

Summary Is it that people resist change? That they fear change? Or rather that people fear loss? As a change management consultant, what is...

Summary What does it Busara's tagline mean: 'transformational leadership, from the inside out'? To what extent are there trul...

Summary How should INGOs discern what roles are still relevant, legitimate, and needed, at this moment in civil society history? And which...

Summary Conflict management and mediation are skills that come up frequently as a weak area in many of our social sector organizations. And...

Summary What constitutes a culture of philanthropy within nonprofits and NGOs? It's a term easily bandied around, but how do I see when...

Summary What does the name Taimaka mean? To what extent are there challenges, as an organization, when you aim for evidence-based decision-m...

Summary Quite a few smaller size social sector organizations assume that program evaluation is too complex or demanding an undertaking for t...

Summary What are the main benefits of a network structure , where power, authority, and leadership are dispersed and shared across regions,...

Summary Conflict within our organizations: we often don't really want to face them, but they are very much there. The result? Plenty of...

Summary What are some structural things that are wrong in development aid and in civil society? Which mindsets most need to be decolonized w...

Summary Leadership transitions are tricky -- and potentially risky -- moments in a nonprofit's life. What are the most common pitfalls...

Summary What should I imagine, practically, when a team coach starts to support my team? What does a well-known team coach find the most rew...

Summary What is the state of DEI in US-founded international development organisations (both for-profit and nonprofit), and how has this sta...

Summary What is life after leadership like? What happens to you as a person when you leave a high-powered, highly visible role in civil soci...

Summary What is scaling? And how is it different from growing? What’s the role of partner strategies or multiplier strategies in scaling? Wh...

Summary 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 yo...

Summary What should we think of when we consider organization integrity issues? How do you distinguish between positive and negative forms o...

Summary How can the feelings of people who work in organizations both facilitate and suppress change? What makes people attach reputation an...

Summary How should we think about the ‘collective journey to equitable development’ of Northern-founded NGOs, national NGOs and their funder...

Summary How does a climate change activist movement such as Extinction Rebellion (XR) chose among strategies and tactics on the spectrum bet...

Summary Environmental activism, environmental justice and equity concerns: what, if anything, is challenging about holding all of these thre...

Summary What are the strengths of a confederated nonprofit organizational structure and what are its inherent weaknesses and limitations? Wh...

Summary What is the difference between forecasting and foresight, as a skill and an area of work? What are the pitfalls when international c...

Summary What is ‘transscalar activism’ in a nutshell? And how is it different from what academics call the 'Boomerang' model of in...

Summary What’s problematic about philanthropy in the ways the sector has practiced it for many decades? Are there limits to trust-based phil...

Summary What are the characteristics of 'digitally native' campaigning organizations? How do digital NGO campaigning organizations...

Summary INGOs have been rocked by scandals and allegations of abuse of power, discrimination etc. in the last 5-10 years. What kind of diffe...

Summary A number of NGOs have aimed to strengthen their global legitimacy by adding more global South members/affiliates. Is this truly a va...

Summary 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...

Charity Navigator is a free online resource for US-based donors, an intermediary rating agency with 11 million unique users per year. It cur...

Summary Welcome to our 50th podcast episode! In this episode, we continue to zero in on what it takes to adopt and shepherd innovation throu...

Summary What are the strengths of faith-based organizations that secular NGOs may have reason to covet? On the other hand, what weaknesses o...

Summary 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, potent...

Summary Leadership in crisis contexts. Many NGOs regularly work in contexts of crisis, or war. The war in Ukraine was one of those contexts,...