Bipana Dhakal shares 5 powerful lessons in mentorship for changemakers, drawing on her journey as a community and global changemaker. Growing up in a rural and marginalized community in Nepal, struggles and scarcity taught me. They taught me to be passionate about youth advocacy for community development. They…
Nashwa Mohammed shares three powerful leadership lessons from nature to help leaders on their journeys of growth and impact. I launched Fadfada startup in December 2018 with huge plans for my new business. Fadfada would combat psychological health stigma in Sudan by providing of professional online counselling and…
Aparajita Dhar explores the trap of high performance and shares an important lesson on how leaders keep people at the core. During my two-decade long career I have amassed lot of lessons around “what to do” as a leader. I’ve learned even more about “what not to do.”…
Richard Dzikunu shares 4 powerful lessons for young professionals from his experience as a young leader on Ghanaian and Global stages alike. It all started as an extracurricular activity. When I joined a child rights group called Curious Minds, I spent time after school at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation…
Nashwa Mohammed explains how our bodies react to stress and shares practical tips for stress to keep leaders calm when the lion attacks. The past couple of years have been unpredictably rough. From the consequences of the ongoing pandemic to trying to solve our personal life challenges, the…
Nashwa Mohammed explores leadership failure and shares practical advice on how to rethink failure not as a problem but as a moment to grow. What is failure? When I first thought about writing this article, I was curious to find out what are the formal definitions of the…
Natasha Chadwick shares three big lessons she learned as a leader from starting a small business, just before a pandemic struck. When the pandemic hit in March 2019, I’d been self-employed for just over 6 months. A voluntary mission to Uganda with International Citizen Service in 2019 was…
Shagun Sharma shares her journey of meaningful volunteering and explores how volunteering grows and multiples social change leaders. My journey in the development sector started in a red-light district. At the age of 18, and only a few months out of school, I began exploring the “problems that…
Jayma Pau explores the value of vulnerability and the power of connection, sharing practical tips for leaders to let the light in.