014_Sadaffee Abid: Leading a Social Enterprise Focused on Women’s Empowerment and Leadership. Sadaffe is the Founder of CIRCLE: a social enterprise supporting the next generation of women leaders through the development of digital literacy, mentorship and greater participation in the economy. CIRCLE’S mission is to “Impact One Million women across Pakistan." She is well on her way to realizing that goal. In this episode, she shares her thoughts on leading, finding your voice and building leaders...
Apr 26, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 15
013_Dennis Vergne: A Leader Who Doesn’t Intend To Lead. Dennis comes to the Swamp and shares his views on leading. And without giving it all away here, he displays his positive deviant orientation to building teams based on freedom and candor and trust. He also flips the field on how to lead change projects. He is more interested in taking actions than talking about “how to do it.” If you are tired of safe and vanilla strategies to lead change and build teams, Dennis Vergne’s ideas will provoke....
Apr 19, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 14
012_Kitty Nooy & Tycho Prins: The Four Virtues of Leadership. We are living in a time of the rise of the oligarchy model of leadership. Which means giving power to a small group of people to decide the future of the larger collective. This is risky business. What the collective risks is the loss of fairness and justice to all. Kitty Nooy and Tycho Prins have made it their work to help groups and organizations develop ethical leadership built on the four virtues of leadership: Courage, Temper...
Apr 12, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 13
012 We have arrived at a critical moment in the transition from fossil fuel to renewable sources of energy. Ren21 is located at the center of a community of energy players. The organization is using its knowledge and expertise to do the hard leadership work of mobilizing this network to sustain the momentum required to shift the balance away from fossil fuel and onto renewable energy. Rana Adib, the Executive Director of Ren21, outlines why this moment is different and what we can do to help sus...
Mar 23, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 12
011_ Polina Makarova drove out of Kharkiv on February 23rd, 2022 as Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. She took with her six family members but not her husband. He stayed behind to help defend their home town. In this episode she speaks directly to the possible futures that are ahead for her country, the courage of Ukrainians and what is at stake if the world doesn’t back up its words with meaningful action. Thanks for listening. Send me your feedback I want to thank my great team that helps ...
Mar 04, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 11
010_ Mike Staresinic returns to the swamp to talk about Ukraine. Mike has many years of experience working in Ukraine in support of cities and communities. He is currently working with a team that is on the ground in Eastern Ukraine. Mike has invested much of his professional life helping the Ukrainians. What is happening today is difficult for him to absorb even with all his experience in the country. In this episode, he will share his candid thoughts and feelings about the situation. He will a...
Feb 27, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 10
009 Safiya Ibn Garba: Founder of the Empowering Women for Excellence Initiative (EWEI) in Nigeria and she is the Director of Institutional Learning at Generations for Peace in Amman, Jordan. Safiya is a dedicated change agent who leads multiple programmes that empower women and youth to cultivate tolerance and citizenship in communities experiencing conflict and gender discrimination. Thanks for listening. Send me your feedback I want to thank my great team that helps me sound better than I am. ...
Feb 22, 2022•58 min•Ep. 9
008 The Scratching Business: Ulziisuren Jamsran, UN Women Representative in Kyrgyzstan shares her leadership lessons from 20 years of international development in gender and women’s equality. She explains why aligning one’s actions to core values and principles are essential to serving those who are in the greatest need of assistance. She also explains why finding the positive deviances in a community is the lever for producing equality for women and community culture. Ulzii is a wisdom keeper f...
Feb 15, 2022•53 min
007 Lars Thuesen Deviating from the “norm”: Lars Thuesen explains why positive deviance is potent and why knowing how to flip matters. Lars is a world leader in the practice of Positive Deviance which is a bit of a hidden gem for fostering social change and impact. Lars will help us understand the leverage of Positive Deviance and how each of us can make use of this approach in our personal life and work world. Thanks for listening. Send me your feedback I want to thank my great team that helps ...
Feb 08, 2022•49 min•Ep. 7
006 Matt Barnaby is a consultant who comes to the Swamp bearing an eclectic portfolio of talents that he deploys to build community capacities. He is a gifted artist which immediately means he sees the world much differently than most of us. He is a master facilitator who has a compelling sense of how to create and hold space for groups of people to work and grow together. As a result of the pandemic, he has added the capacity for helping people, teams and organizations develop their approach to...
Feb 01, 2022•52 min
005 Jacob Mayne is an Englishman living in Paris. Immediately we know he’s on to something wise. He is a founder and Managing Partner of NewAngles Consultancy. His work is focused on sustainability and change strategy. He is also an Affiliate Professor at Paris/HEC School of Management and a visiting lecturer at Science Po, Paris. Jacob’s primary goal is helping leaders integrate positive, sustainable business practices into their organizations. He balances his professional focus with a love of ...
Jan 25, 2022•56 min
004 Nita Baum joins us in the Swamp to share two leadership journeys she is navigating. The first journey is as Founder of B*Free, a consultancy that partners with organizations to transform Workplaces to HealingSpaces for greater equity, humanity and sustainable wellbeing. This is big work and Nita talks about why it matters and what she has learned about helping organizations transform. Nita's is also on a simultaneous journey as Board President of Solar Responders, whose mission is to equip f...
Jan 25, 2022•57 min•Ep. 4
001 Mike Staresinic help's launch 10,000 SwampLeaders with his harrowing story of leading in the Balkans during the struggle for free and open democracy. Mike is a friend and thought partner who brings real world experience and deep commitment to his work for social change. Thanks for listening. Send me your feedback I want to thank my great team that helps me sound better than I am. Jacki Hydock for her lending her wonderful voice to our introduction and outro Great music by Jazz Night Awesome ...
Jan 16, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 1
003 Kate Cooper calls herself a "lippy grandmother, that is all." But she really is so much more than that. Kate is a role model for community building and leading change that directly helps the people in her Birmingham, UK community. She is the Director of Birmingham Food Council CIC, a Visiting Fellow at Aston University and of course, a grandmother. Kate's candor and modesty are a potent combination for all of us to model. In this episode, she is our guide to how one can transform how a city ...
Jan 16, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 2
002 Mark Clark is CEO of Generations For Peace located in Amman, Jordan. GFP is dedicated to sustainable conflict transformation at the grassroots, Generations For Peace empowers volunteer leaders of youth to promote active tolerance and responsible citizenship in communities experiencing different forms of conflict and violence. They do this work through carefully facilitated sport-based games, art, advocacy, dialogue, and empowerment activities provide an entry point to engage children, youth,...
Jan 16, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 2
000_ 10,000 Swamp Leaders Trailer Thanks for listening. Send me your feedback I want to thank my great team that helps me sound better than I am. Jacki Hydock for her lending her wonderful voice to our introduction and outro Great music by Jazz Night Awesome episode production by the great team of We Edit Podcasts all the way up in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Check them out at www.weeditpodcasts.com Thanks For Listening and Jumping into the Swamp...
Jan 15, 2022•2 min
