❓How can organizations strategically harness ecosystem resources instead of relying solely on external funding?

❓Why is trust the ultimate accelerator of change, and how can we design for trust at scale?

❓What are the most powerful levers of systemic transformation, and how can social change leaders identify and activate them?

In this episode of Rethink Social Change Podcast, I had the pleasure to sit down with Sanjay Purohit for one of my most insightful conversations to reflect on these questions.

Sanjay is a systems thinker and the architect of #SocietalThinking , a transformative approach to tackling big, urgent, and complex challenges at scale. As the Chief Curator of The Center for Exponential Change https://centreforexponentialchange.org/, Sanjay has worked with 500+ changemakers across 20 countries, pioneering new ways to rethink scale, speed, and sustainability in #socialimpact .

Together, we explored:

🚶🏽‍♀️ Why scale is not a destination, but a journey and how framing the right big question can set the course for transformation.
⏱ The dance of timing. When to move fast, when to consolidate, and when to step back to sustain impact.
🔑 Trust as the currency of change. Why "transformation happens at the speed of trust" and how to design for it at scale.
🌍 From distributing solutions to distributing the ability to solve and leveraging networks for lasting, systemic impact.
📊 Rethinking monitoring & evaluation. Why real success is about progress, not just outcomes, and why listening to communities at scale is key.
🛠️ The levers of systemic transformation and how to pull them at the right time to create momentum.

Sanjay’s Think series offers a new vocabulary for change leaders navigating today’s dynamic, unpredictable systems. If you’re a #socialchange practitioner, #funder, or #ecosystem builder seeking to rethink how we create impact in a fast-changing world, this conversation is a must-listen.

Tune in now and let’s push the boundaries of what’s possible in social change.

💡Access the Think Series and Apurva A.I., which we mention in the discussion, below:

#ThinkScale https://societalthinking.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Think-Scale-Mobile.pdf

#ThinkSpeed https://societalthinking.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Think-Speed-Mobile.pdf

#ThinkSustain https://societalthinking.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Think-Sustain-Mobile.pdf

Apurva A.I. https://apurva.ai

#RethinkSocialChange #scalingimpact #trust #SocietalThinking #SystemsLeadership #socialtransformation #impact

What happens when you sit down with an AI expert who doesn’t sugarcoat the hype? You get a conversation like this one.

In this episode, I speak with Yasmina Kazitani who’s spent years at the cutting edge of AI, blockchain, and gaming. She’s not a social change practitioner, and that’s exactly why I wanted her perspective.

We explore the big promises and hard truths of AI: Can it help marginalized communities gain power? Will it transform healthcare and education, or just reinforce existing inequalities? And, perhaps the biggest question of all: is AI as good (or as bad) as we are?

Yasmina doesn’t hold back and she doesn't mince her words. She breaks down the hype vs. reality, calls out the ethics gap in AI, and challenges the way we think about power, control, and the future of technology.

This episode is different, no ReThink Social Change Cards today, just a candid, exploratory conversation about the intersection of AI and social change.

What’s your take?

Is AI a tool for justice, or just another cog in the system?

Let us know in the comments!

#socialchange #ai #aiforgood #techforchange #ethics #rethinksocialchange

Should evaluators JUST measure progress, or should they actively shape it?

Let’s start 2025 with a somewhat disruptive question 😮

I sat down with Khalil Bitar, to explore how evaluation can drive real, lasting change. From decolonizing the field to amplifying youth-led innovations, Khalil shows us that evaluators can be activists for equity, justice, and systemic transformation.

If you want to explore more of Khalil’s ideas, he wrote these two articles to push the field toward meaningful, context-driven action:

💡SEAT (A Social Equity Assessment Tool for Evaluation)

Because you can’t talk about progress if voices on the margins aren’t part of the story. https://tinyurl.com/2s...

💡ToE (A Practitioner’s Guide to Constructing a 'Theory of Evaluation')

Designed to shift evaluation from checking boxes to driving genuine, context-rooted change. https://tinyurl.com/4u...

Tune in to reimagine evaluation as a potent force for change 🎧

#ReThinkSocialChange #Podcast #evaluation #socialchange #inclusion