Scale Your Impact

Scale Your Impact is a podcast for anyone who has an interest in understanding and measuring impact and figuring out how to scale the effectiveness of cross-sector partnerships to achieve the 2030 agenda of the United Nations. I'm your host, Somaye Dehban, a passionate Dutchified Iranian who is rather obsessed with impact measurement, cross-sector partnerships and scale-up. Scale Your Impact is based on my PhD research at Rotterdam School of Management. Intrigued? Sign up for my newsletters to get notified about each episode and more. You can do this by going to somayedehban.com/newsletters

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Episodes

Getting All the Motives Right (Quarterly)

Hallo - This is Somaye Dehban, a passionate Dutchified Iranian who is rather obsessed with impact measurement, cross-sector partnerships and scale up. Scale Your Impact is based on my PhD research at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, the Netherlands. In Episode #6: Getting All the Motives Right, I talk about Guiding Coalition which is the second stage in my personal and organizational model: Verbinding. I also talk about my PhD research proposal specifically model 4 which deals...

Mar 01, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 6

School Closures a Generational Catastrophe

Hallo - This is Somaye Dehban, a passionate Dutchified Iranian who is rather obsessed with impact measurement, cross-sector partnerships and scale up. Scale Your Impact is based on my PhD research at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, the Netherlands. In Episode #5: School Closures a Generational Catastrophe, I will be talking about Systemic Review. Systemic Review is the first stage of the first Phase of my personal and organizational transformation that I've dubbed Verbinding....

Feb 01, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Pragmatic Strategy

Hallo - This is Somaye Dehban, a passionate Dutchified Iranian who is rather obsessed with impact measurement, cross-sector partnerships and scale up. Scale Your Impact is based on my PhD research at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, the Netherlands. In Episode #4: Pragmatic Strategy, I will be talking about "Understanding". Understanding is the first phase of a model that I have developed over the last couple of years in the domain of personal and organizational transformation...

Jan 04, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Wicked Problems (Quarterly)

Hallo - This is Somaye Dehban, a passionate Dutchified Iranian who is rather obsessed with impact measurement, cross-sector partnerships and scale up. Scale Your Impact is based on my PhD research at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, the Netherlands. In Episode 3: Wicked Problems I talk about the nature of wicked problems and why despite the challenge of defining them, we have the means to find solutions for them. And I provide a summary of topics that were presented in my othe...

Dec 07, 2021•17 min•Season 1Ep. 3

MDGs to SDGs

Hallo - This is Somaye Dehban, a passionate Dutchified Iranian who is rather obsessed with impact measurement, cross-sector partnerships and scale up. Scale Your Impact is based on my PhD research at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, the Netherlands. In Episode 2: MDGs to SDGs, I talk briefly about the history behind Sustainable Development Goals and how we came about these 17 goals. I also refer to other major agreements that were adopted in 2015 next to 2030 agenda. Then I de...

Nov 02, 2021•21 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Prologue

Hallo - This is Somaye Dehban, a passionate Dutchified Iranian who is rather obsessed with impact measurement, cross-sector partnerships and scale up. Scale Your Impact is based on my PhD research at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, the Netherlands. In Episode #1: Prologue, I talk about the main research question of my PhD and the three components that, I consider, act as catalysts to step-up the pace of actions, we are collectively going to take in the next decade for achievi...

Oct 05, 2021•16 min•Ep. 1

Trailer: Scale Your Impact with Somaye Dehban

I am your host Somaye Dehban and this is my trailer introducing my new podcasts. Scale Your Impact is a podcast that echoes my PhD research at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in the Netherlands. For more information, you can sign up for my newsletter by visiting www.somayedehban.com/newsletter s Be sure to subscribe so that you don't miss an episode, and share with a friend if you think they'd enjoy it. See you soon!...

Sep 30, 2021•3 min

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