Episode 7Prioritizing Collective Leadership to Address Physical and Environmental Threats in Indigenous Communities

with Tarcila Rivera Zea

What does it take to go from a domestic worker to the director of an organization that represents thousands of Indigenous women in the public arena? Is that a journey of transformation you could imagine for yourself? Tune in this week to hear about what world leadership has to learn from Indigenous feminist leaders like Tarcila Rivera Zea. Tarcila is sharing her harrowing story, how she found her calling in advocating for indigenous women, and the adversity she had to work through so she could fight for the rights of herself and others.

Episode 6Leading the Pursuit of Justice and Defending Human Rights While Risking Everything

with Ana Lorena Delgadillo Perez

How does one continue to serve when the government that is supposed to protect you decides to turn on you for being a human rights defender? How do you manage your own fear while standing for the thousands of migrants that have become victims of organized crime? Tune in this week for a riveting conversation with Ana Lorena about the realities of serving those navigating life-threatening issues, what it takes to keep going when you’re accused of the very thing you’re trying to eradicate, and how she takes care of herself and has resolved fears for her own safety.

Episode 5Choosing Courage and Finding Joy as a Leader

with Françoise Moudouthe

How does one fight for equality while naming discrimination within the very philanthropic organizations that support their work? My guest this week has a powerful lesson on courage and serving others with bravery in the face of discomfort, even when you don’t have all the answers. Tune in this week as Françoise Moudouthe walks us through the importance of taking a stance and tackling discrimination, even when it risks affecting your popularity or financial resources.

Episode 4Harnessing the Power of Collective Leadership to Navigate Worldwide Crises

with Rukka Sombolinggi

What can discrimination, hardship, and resilience teach us about navigating COVID with courage and grace? My guest, Rukka Sombolinggi, Secretary General of the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago, shares her deep wisdom about how we can navigate pandemics, climate change, and other crises by focusing on the collective approach embodied by our planet’s Indigenous communities, and some why Indigenous communities have had the opportunity to thrive during the COVID pandemic.

Episode 3Bringing the Social Sciences and Humanities into Public Dialogue in the Arab World

with Seteney Shami

My guest this week is an anthropologist who believes that the solutions to institutional and deeply-ingrained problems lie in the social sciences. Tune in this week to discover the work Seteney Shami and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences are doing to bring academia and the humanities into the conversation around how to solve the challenges and crises the Arab world is facing.

Episode 2How to Find Possibilities in Conflict

with Ellen Sprenger

As a leader, when was the last time you had a conflict that led to a positive result? Ellen Sprenger shares how to address conflict, big or small, in generative and creative ways that uncover new possibilities for ourselves and our organizations. Ellen is sharing how to bring awareness to your current conflict strategy, and giving us her practical tips for finding the wisdom that conflict has to offer and sharing the responsibility of change.

Episode 1Finding Courage and Healing Trauma as We Stand for Human Rights

with Sibongile Ndashe

How can we sustain ourselves and heal our own trauma as we stand for human rights? Sibongile Ndashe is going in-depth around the importance of focusing on litigation in pursuit of human rights, and she’s sharing how she protects herself and experiences joy in the work she does as a leader while promoting wellbeing as an important consideration for everyone undertaking a social justice mission.

Episode 15Dancing with the Rule of Law

with Vivian Newman

Episode 14Money, Movies and Movements

with Abigail Disney

Episode 13Harnessing Resources Online to Fuel Your Movement

with Emma Ruby-Sachs

Episode 12Movement Building in a Digital Age

with Jac sm Kee

How have internet technologies impacted our idea of the public, communities, and our change agendas? Jac sm Kee examines the ways movement building and organizing affects and is affected by the digital age we are living in now.

Episode 11Our Relationship With Fear

with Mallika Dutt

As leaders, we are often outwardly focused and forget the importance of inner work for social change. In this episode, Mallika Dutt helps us explore our relationship to fear and how to shift from reactiveness to becoming more responsive and present leaders.

Episode 10Shifting Norms Through Culture Change and Narrative Strategy

with Bridgit Antoinette Evans

Bridgit Antoinette Evans takes us on an in-depth journey from the personal to the political as she explains the burgeoning field of culture change. Join her in a powerful exploration of narrative structures, archetypes, and a whole system ecological approach to transforming cultural norms for social change.

Episode 9Evaluating Communications and Culture Change

with Alan Jenkins

Episode 8Practical Steps Toward Narrative Shift and Claiming Your Story

with Mallika Dutt

Mallika Dutt shows us how to bring broad concepts of culture change and narrative strategy into our organizations. She shares campaigns and music videos on gender justice and practical lessons learned from her time leading Breakthrough.

Episode 7Frames, Messages and Effective Communication

with Alan Jenkins

Episode 6Being a Storyteller

with Kirk Cheyfitz

Episode 5T​he Future of Multilateralism

with Lopa Banerjee

Recent events in the world, along with the global pandemic have forced us to look at the complex relationships between nation states. In this timely discussion with Lopa Banerjee we discuss the possibilities and challenges of this uncertain and emergent moment in our human history.

Episode 4W​alking the Talk: Addressing Power Within

with Srilatha Batliwala

Episode 3Understanding Power for Organizational Change

with Srilatha Batliwala

Join Srilatha Batliwala as she shows us how to understand and analyze visible, invisible and hidden patterns of power to create dramatic organizational shifts.