E16: Driving Global Change through Inner Work with Aila Malik

Aila Malik is a multipreneur, social justice warrior, planet protector, and world explorer.  She’s a lawyer by schooling, nonprofit executive by trade, and founder of Venture Leadership Consulting, a firm that partners with nonprofits to close systemic gaps of inequity.
In this episode, we chat about social impact leadership, multipreneurship, and doing the inner work to drive global change. That inner work can be sparked in interesting places! Aila speaks to how the app Clubhouse served as a “free life coach” – presenting her with opportunities for inner healing.
“We [the national nonprofit community of practitioners] are now called upon to solve some of the world's toughest issues. How do we get very intentional about garnering the empathy and resources that are needed to solve them? For me, that comes down to really doing that inner work on a micro-macro level.” - Aila Malik

We discussed:
[02:30] Aila Malik’s path to activism 
[06:59] What do children of immigrants and nonprofit leaders have in common?
[10:50] Doing the inner work of leadership   
[16:43] How to drive change in your organization
[25:08] Clubhouse for thought leadership and self-coaching
[40:30] Aila’s vision: how do we solve the world’s most pressing issues? 

To read a full transcript of the episode, visit: LUMOS MARKETING

Resources from this episode:
Aila and Tania mention a couple of models and frameworks to help them guide and drive change. The first is William Miller and Stephen Rollnick’s Motivational Interviewing, which you can read more about here. The second is Prochaska’s Stages of Change Model and you can find more information about it here.
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Connect with Aila Malik:
LinkedIn: @ailamalik
Instagram: @ailamalikauthor
Company Website: ventureleader.org
Personal Website: ailamalik.com 

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Connect with Tania Bhattacharyya:
LinkedIn: Tania Bhattacharyya
Instagram: @taniabhat
Website: lumosmarketing.co

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