Are you ready to transform the way you lead? Join visionary change makers as they share their strategies and insights with Mallika Dutt. From digital organizing to creating cultures of care, Leadership Moves shows us how to shake up and re-envision our changing world.
This series is supported by the BUILD program of the Ford Foundation.
What does pleasure have to do with human rights? How do we incorporate play and joy into our work of challenging violence and discrimination? Tune in this week to discover how to use play, joy, fun, and pleasure in the fight for sexual rights. We’re discussing how we can help people not just accounting for the harm they face, but also focusing on diverse sources of pleasure they want to experience, and how we can bring these two ends of the spectrum together.
How does the loss of a family member to a tragedy like 9/11 affect your ability to lead? How can you stay grounded in love when working on challenging issues like abortion and HIV/AIDS? Tune in this week to discover the resilience and focus it takes to survive personal tragedy and continue serving the most marginalized people in your community. Terry is sharing the most significant things she’s learned in her fight for reproductive and health equality and how we need to ground our leadership in these turbulent times.
How would your life change if care became the central organizing principle of how you do your work? Lydia Alpízar Durán has led the way in terms of diverse leadership and integrating diversity, care, and sustainability for the WHRD who are fighting oppression, so tune in to discover the realizations and perspective shifts she has had over the years, and the practical steps she has implemented in her organization to bring people together and build a collective capacity to respond.
Are you considering a significant work transition? Perhaps you’re a founder looking to leave your beloved organization in search of new challenges. Or maybe the baton of an organization and mission is being passed to you. Join us this week to discover how to carry out big leadership changes with breath, love, and grace, even during times of global crises. We’re discussing the reality faced when a founder decides to leave an organization, and how to bring forth leadership from within so that an organization can continue to move forward and do the important work of social justice.
What is the importance of women’s stories? How do we learn the art of listening with humility and respect for storytellers? Tune in this week to discover the power of challenging yourself to listen in situations that make you uncomfortable. Urvashi Butalia is discussing her experiences of sharing the stories of women over the past four decades, and of accepting that now is the time for her organization to take the path of the next generation of leaders and changemakers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The rule of law is a necessary but insufficient condition for justice. From the war on drugs to mass protests, the rule of law has been used to both uplift and suppress human rights and social justice. Listen to this rich discussion with Vivian Newman as we explore the rule of law and movement building in Colombia, Latin America and the Global South.
How do people of wealth leverage their status to advance social justice? How can we use the power of storytelling to shift social and economic paradigms? Join Abigail Disney in a candid conversation about her Disney heritage, the power of creativity, and how she leverages her identities as filmmaker, philanthropist and activist to uplift peace and justice.
How do we build a large community of online donors from a small group of supporters? How can we get an online fundraising program off the ground? Emma Ruby-Sachs walks us through these efforts, providing tools to help power our campaigns and build community through online fundraising.
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.
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.
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.
How do we measure the impact of culture change, communication and storytelling strategies? Join Alan Jenkins on a journey to examine leading methodologies for evaluating cultural and communication campaigns through concrete examples and case studies.
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.
Join Alan Jenkins on a clear and compelling journey to create effective communication and cultural strategies to change policy and transform culture.
We are all storytellers. Story is how humans make meaning of the world. Kirk Cheyfitz illustrates what a story is, why stories work, and shows us how to construct and tell stories that engage people and change culture.
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.
After our last episode with Srilatha Batliwala we felt like we were not even close to done with our exploration of power in the workplace, and wanted to dive deeper into understanding and transforming repressive power dynamics within our organizations.
Join Srilatha Batliwala as she shows us how to understand and analyze visible, invisible and hidden patterns of power to create dramatic organizational shifts.
Virisila Buadromo and Tatiana Cordero Velázquez from Urgent Action Fund, Asia/Pacific and Latin America, share what’s needed to cultivate care at every level.
Join Rashad Robinson, leader of the largest online civil rights organization in the United States, as he lays out what’s needed to take a moment of possibility into a movement for systems change.