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How do we disrupt the entrenched power dynamics in finance to advance a more equitable future? Join us for the Criterion Institute Podcast as Joy Anderson, a global thought leader in business and social change, leads us through a series of discussions, interviews, frameworks, rants, and re-frames that will help you better understand how to use finance as a tool for transformative systems change. Learn more by visiting us at www.criterioninstitute.org.Copyright 2026 Joy Anderson Economie Finances privées Management Management et direction
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  • #89: What the Task List Misses: Infrastructure, Care, and the Practice of Puttering

    #89: What the Task List Misses: Infrastructure, Care, and the Practice of Puttering
    Oct 8 2026
    In this episode, Joy Anderson explores puttering as a practice of grace, strategy, and organizational maintenance, arguing that some of the most important work in systems change happens outside formal plans, task lists, and deliverables.Many organizations prize productivity, efficiency, and execution. But what happens when the plan itself becomes too authoritative? Drawing from her own practice of reserving Fridays for what she calls "puttering," Joy reflects on the value of creating space to notice, repair, reconnect, reorganize, and follow the next natural thing rather than the next scheduled task. She distinguishes puttering from procrastination, describing it as a disciplined way of staying close to the work when priorities shift, opportunities emerge, and reality no longer aligns neatly with the plan.The conversation expands beyond personal productivity into questions of organizational design, power, care, and invisible labor. Joy explores how systems depend on maintenance work that rarely appears on project plans or performance metrics: repairing relationships, noticing what is breaking, clearing pathways, and strengthening infrastructure before crises emerge. Connecting these ideas to Criterion's value of grace, she argues that organizations pursuing ambitious systems change must make room not only for strategy and execution, but also for surprise, repair, and the human realities that make long-term change possible.Episode Highlights00:00 - Introduction to the podcast and guest00:36 - The promise and limitations of financial innovation01:36 - Moving beyond fixing capital to changing economic conditions03:24 - The practice of puttering and its role in organizational health05:17 - Puttering as wandering with intention06:46 - The discipline of staying close to the work08:41 - Using puttering to adapt to change and uncertainty10:05 - The value of grace in organizational work12:01 - Organizational maintenance and invisible labor13:24 - Designing organizations for puttering and repair15:20 - The importance of grace and gentle work17:18 - The limits of list-based productivity19:03 - Valuing small acts of care and repair21:00 - Who is always doing the unrecognized work?22:26 - Practicing grace through puttering23:25 - Practical exercises for puttering25:54 - The role of surprise and small moments in systems change27:22 - The balance between planning and grace28:31 - Closing thoughts and invitation for further engagementRelevant LinksCriterion Institute website and LinkedInJoy Anderson's LinkedInDive Deeper6 Approaches GuidanceCriterion's framework for understanding how social change happens through learning, teaching, amplification, design, field building, and influence. This episode's discussion of puttering highlights the often-unseen work that strengthens these approaches and creates the conditions for meaningful systems change.A Blueprint for Grassroots Organizations on Using Finance for Social ChangeThis Blueprint explores how organizations can build on existing relationships, networks, skills, and experience to create change. Joy's reflections on maintenance, repair, noticing, and working with what already exists align closely with the Blueprint's emphasis on identifying and strengthening assets rather than starting from scratch.A Blueprint for Women's Funds Using Finance as a Tool for Social ChangeThe Blueprint presents a framework for using finance as one strategy among many for social change. Like this episode, it encourages leaders to expand their imagination beyond familiar practices and pay attention to the underlying structures, relationships, and forms of power that shape outcomes. A Blueprint for Faith-Based Organizations on using Finance as a Tool for Social ChangeWritten for changemakers, this Blueprint examines how organizations can use finance alongside other strategies to influence systems and build new partnerships. The episode's focus on organizational infrastructure, grace, and creating space for emergence complements the Blueprint's emphasis on building change through relationships and collaboration.The Gift of ClarityIn this reflection, Joy writes about ambiguity, systems change, and the moments when clarity emerges from complexity. Readers who are interested in the episode's themes of slowing down, making room for surprise, and allowing the work to reveal what matters will find a natural extension of those ideas here. If you enjoyed this episode, consider listening to:#58: Check List or Trust List: Power, Performance, and the Politics of ProcedureA reflection on checklists, procedures, trust, and organizational power. This episode complements Joy's critique of allowing lists and formal processes to become substitutes for judgment and relationship.#71: Time to Pause: How We Learn to Let Go, Listen and PivotJoy reflects on releasing assumptions and creating space for new possibilities. Both episodes explore how slowing down can create conditions for better leadership and more ...
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    30 min
  • #88: The Politics of Time in Investing: Exit Horizons, Runways, and the Futures We Finance

    #88: The Politics of Time in Investing: Exit Horizons, Runways, and the Futures We Finance
    Sep 24 2026
    When investors evaluate opportunities, conversations usually focus on money: risk, return, liquidity, valuation, and performance. But underneath every financial decision sits another variable that is often treated as technical rather than political: time. In this episode, Joy Anderson explores how time appears throughout investing, from discount rates and exit horizons to repayment schedules, liquidity, and fund structures. These choices may seem neutral, but they determine who gets time to build, adapt, and grow, and who is forced to move at someone else's pace. Drawing on Criterion's work inside investment structures and financial systems, Joy examines how different actors operate according to different clocks, how fund structures shape behavior long before investments are made, and why one of finance's most important functions is creating time itself. From extending organizational runway to supporting market formation and systems change, this episode reframes investing as the allocation of time as much as capital. Ultimately, Joy challenges listeners to think differently about investment decisions by asking not only about return and risk, but also whose timeline is driving the decision and what future becomes possible when people are given the time they need to build toward change. Episode Highlights00:00 - Introduction to time in finance02:09 - The vocabulary of time in investment deals04:04 - How discount rates and time horizons influence value05:01 - Exit scenarios and liquidity considerations05:51 - Different clocks for different actors in finance09:12 - The impact of fund timelines and pressures14:00 - Finance as a tool to create and extend time19:10 - Measuring time-based outcomes in investments20:09 - Systems change and the importance of pacing and sequencing23:03 - Reframing investment questions around time and futures Relevant LinksCriterion Institute website and LinkedInJoy Anderson's LinkedIn Dive DeeperA Roadmap for Private Investors: Investing to Address Gender-based Violence This roadmap explores how investors can intentionally shape financial systems for social change and offers a useful lens for understanding how investment decisions influence long-term outcomes and future possibilities. GBV Approaches to Investing: Catalytic Strategies This resource examines patient, flexible, and appropriately structured capital, making it particularly relevant to the episode's discussion of financing time, readiness, and long-term change. If you enjoyed this episode, consider listening to: #70: Financing Patience: Movements, Markets and the Long Game A deeper exploration of patient capital, movement funding, market formation, and why transformative change requires long-term financial commitments.#57: Investable Hope: A Conversation with Susie Pan on Financing the Future Joy and Susie Pan discuss the relationship between finance, hope, future outcomes, and investing toward long-term social change. #84: Narratives, Local, and the Stories That Shape Finance An exploration of how assumptions about the future influence financial decision-making and what becomes possible when we tell different stories about finance. #65: Investing as if Hope Mattered: The Church, Finance, and the Imagination to Act A reflection on finance, imagination, and the role long-term vision plays in shaping systems and investment choices. Part of the ImpactAlpha Podcast Network
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    25 min
  • #87: Thank You for Naming It: The Early Days of Gender Lens Investing

    #87: Thank You for Naming It: The Early Days of Gender Lens Investing
    Sep 10 2026
    In this episode, Joy Anderson sits down with longtime collaborator Jackie VanderBrug to revisit the origins of gender lens investing and the work of building a field before most people believed it existed. Drawing on their years together at Criterion Institute, they reflect on the early efforts to identify, map, and connect investors, researchers, philanthropists, and practitioners who were already incorporating gender into financial decision-making but lacked a shared language or framework. The conversation explores the importance of naming, the challenges of making gender visible within emerging impact investing conversations, and the tension between simplicity and rigor as the field developed. Joy and Jackie discuss the evolution of concepts such as "Women Effect," "Revaluing Gender," and "gender lens investing," as well as the role of leadership, philanthropy, community-building, and intellectual frameworks in making new possibilities visible. Ultimately, the episode is a reflection on how movements are built: through mapping, invitation, collaboration, persistence, and the willingness to claim possibility before there is permission to do so. Episode Highlights00:00 - Introduction to the podcast and guests02:24 - Reflecting on the early days of gender lens investing04:17 - The role of visibility and community in building the field07:13 - Naming and framing the movement: Women Effect and gender lens09:11 - Overcoming resistance and gaining acceptance12:48 - The impact of mapping and community building16:37 - The evolution of impact investment frameworks19:54 - The importance of gender analysis over numbers22:44 - Building the field without a central fund25:39 - Legacy and ongoing influence of early efforts28:55 - Reflections on collaboration and future impact Relevant LinksCriterion Institute website and LinkedInJoy Anderson's LinkedInJackie VanderBrug's LinkedIn Dive Deeper State of the Field of Gender Lens Investing A foundational review of how gender lens investing evolved as a field, mapping the ideas, actors, products, and organizations that helped move gender from a niche concern to an established investment lens. Framing (and Reframing) Gender A framework for understanding how gender analysis can reveal opportunities, risks, and dynamics within financial systems, moving beyond simply counting women toward a deeper examination of power and value. If you enjoyed this episode, consider listening to: #32: Pioneering Collaboration: The Story Behind the 2024 Joan Bavaria AwardA reflection on the collaboration between Joy Anderson, Jackie VanderBrug, and Suzanne Biegel in building the field of gender lens investing. #42: 10 Year On: Reflecting on the State of Gender Lens InvestingJoy revisits the evolution of the field, its frameworks, and the progress made over a decade. #40: Gender Lens Investing is a Time of Backlash: Why It Matters Now More Than EverA contemporary reflection on why gender lens investing remains important amid shifting political and economic conditions. #47: Spelling it out: Gender Lens Investing Deserves Words, Not Acronyms A conversation about language, terminology, and how naming shapes understanding and action. Part of the ImpactAlpha Podcast Network
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    31 min
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