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 society?
What happens with your sense of identity? Does this also perhaps touch on ego as well?
What offers new meaning and purpose, when we live our life-after-leadership?
In this NGO Soul+Strategy podcast episode, I interview Sam Worthington, former President and CEO at InterAction, who stepped down from a position with much positional as well as symbolic power just about a year ago.
Sam’s Bio:
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Resources:
Sam’s LinkedIn Profile
Book David Brooks, From Strength to Strength
Essay by David Brooks in The Atlantic: The New Old Age (gated)
YouTube video of this podcast
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056. Philanthropy that’s less colonial in mindset and practices: John Hecklinger @ Global Fund for Children
055. Digital advocacy NGOs: a necessary, complementary force: Nina Hall
054. NGO scandals: causes, consequences and prevention + recovery strategies: Cassandra Chapman
053. Change is not a project: Hazem Fahmy on CARE Egypt’s Country Office transition towards full membership
052. Influence and power in complex NGOs: leadership insights from John Samuel @ Oxfam
051. Charity Navigator's changing expectations and its impacts on US nonprofit behaviors: Michael Thatcher, Charity Navigator's CEO
050. Innovation in social change organizations: shepherds or adopters? Emma Proud
049. Women and positional power in faith based NGOs: Martha Holley Newsome @ Medical Teams Int.
048. How to kindle innovation in large development agencies: Soren Vester Haldrup @ UNDP
047. Crisis leadership skills during war: Pact's Alyona Gerasimova in Ukraine
046. Signaling your financial trustworthiness lowers your NGOs impact by half: George Mitchell and Thad Calabrese
045. What we as NGO leaders need to do to spur innovation: Dermot O'Gorman @ WWF Australia
044. Disability rights: how NGOs go about actually claiming them - Susan Sygall @ Mobility International USA
043. How I practice virtual leadership in a complex membership organization - Lysa John @ CIVICUS
042. Feminist leadership: organizational practices to make it real -- Kirthi Jayakumar & Leila Billing
041. Rest, reset, resilience: how my mind journeyed when I took a sabbatical - Chris Proulx @ Humentum
040. Can NGOs Stay Human-Centered while Embracing Smart Tech? Beth Kanter and Allison Fine
039. How NGO CEOs are thinking about operating model changes, right now: Christine Sow of Humentum
038. Exploring Possible Futures for Conservation NGOs: Anca Damerell @ Luc Hoffman Institute
037. We need to rethink the 'virtue narrative' surrounding NGOs: Aseem Prakash
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