The Social Change Career Podcast

In Episode 13 of Season 9 learn from innovator, founder and social entrepreneur Paul Breloff. Paul has been working in the social impact sector for over 2 decades in a variety of innovative roles including currently as CEO and Co-Founder of Shortlist, a leading search, recruiting and upskilling startup connecting impact talent to opportunity across Africa and beyond. Paul shares his rich experience and insights from developing and recruiting talent for a wide variety of regional and global social impact organizations. He discusses tips for how to work with headhunters, explore what are the key skills in demand, how the world of work is changing across Africa and his suggestions for candidates to be more competitive in their job searches. In addition, he highlights his lessons from working at the intersection of development, investment, startups and the global change industry for over two decades. For those seeking to scale innovative solutions to local and regional challenge, Paul will shares unique lessons from his work across a wide range of roles and the ups and downs (as well as maintaining one's well-being) in the impact world. Paul is the Co-Founder and CEO of Shortlist, a talent advisory and executive search firm working across Africa and India. Since its founding in 2016, Shortlist has worked with 1,000+ companies and 1,800,000+ jobseekers across 30 countries. Before Shortlist, Paul was the Founder and Managing Director of Accion Venture Lab, a VC fund investing in inclusive fintech startups globally, and head of business development for SKS Microfinance in Hyderabad. He has also been a corporate lawyer and advertising account executive, and advises several startups and investment funds in Africa. He lives in Nairobi, Kenya. This session is supported by the Rotary Peace Fellowship, a fully-funded master's degree or certificate in peace and development studies.

In Episode 11 of Season 9, Key insights for aspiring impact professionals based in the Global South, learn from innovator and career expert Lucille Jade Galvan. Jade has been working in career advising, recruitment and talent management for over 15 years in a wide-variety of roles in leading institutions in Singapore, Bangladesh, and the Philippines. Her current role is Career Services Director at the Asian Institute of Management, a leading graduate institution that upskills professionals in development, management and sustainability across the region and beyond. Jade shares rich insights from her cross-sectoral career in talent and advising thousands of students and alumni across Southeast Asia in advancing career of impact with a particular focus on the sustainability sector. She will highlight areas of growth connected to purpose and impact career, suggestions for building more competitive applications and networking and also why pursuing a career in recruitment and talent management can be a wonderful path in the impact sector. She will also discuss her experiences at working across countries and in leading private sector and educational institutions. Lucille Jade Galvan is Career Services Director at the Asian Institute of Management in The Philippines. Prior to rejoining AIM in 2020 where she also worked from 2011 to 2016, she was Assistant Director at the Nanyang Business School of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and a former Head of Career Development and International Programs at the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh. Her career foundation has been in corporate human resources for a multinational conglomerate. Jade holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from De La Salle University. She also completed a diploma program in Industrial Relations from the University of the Philippines including certification programs in management from Asian Institute of Management and in women in education leadership from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is currently undertaking masteral research within the framework of Just Transition fundamental for achieving climate goals and decent work for all at the University of the Philippines School of Labor and Industrial Relations. For those who want much greater support, access to the world's best experts, more interactive sessions, networking events & workshops over 350 opportunities per month (fellowships, jobs, funding, socent +startup, training and more) + tons of members only benefits please visit the PCDN Career Campus. This session is supported by the Rotary Peace Fellowship Every year, 130 individuals are selected to receive a generous award from The Rotary Foundation that funds tuition, living expenses, international field experience, and research/conference opportunities at one of the Rotary Peace Centers, located within eight leading universities around the world.

Episode 10 of Season 9 features leading social innovator and author of "THe New Reason to Work" Roshan Paul. Roshan has been working at the intersection of leadership, innovation, social entrepreneurship, upskilling and convening for impact for more than 15 years including at his current role as Director of Leadership Practice at IREX. Roshan shares deep insights from working around the globe helping hundreds of social impact professionals scale their skills, impact and careers. He discusses the wonders and challenges of advancing a career in the social impact sector, tips for building relevant skills and what he sees as key emerging career pathways. In addition, given his own career path and mentoring many professionals from the Global South he will also highlight key recommendations for those seeking to scale a regional or remote impact career. Roshan Paul is the Director of Leadership Practice at IREX and the co-author of the Amazon #1 bestseller The New Reason to Work. Originally from Bangalore, India, he spent the first 10 years of his career working with Ashoka and the next 10 years co-founding and leading Amani Institute into the largest social change career development organization in the global south. He loves watching cricket, wildlife, and well-written TV shows. This session is supported by the Rotary Peace Fellowship Every year, 130 individuals are selected to receive a generous award from The Rotary Foundation that funds tuition, living expenses, international field experience, and research/conference opportunities at one of the Rotary Peace Centers, located within eight leading universities around the world.

In this episode, learn from innovator and educator Diana Suarez founder and CEO of GLOT. Diana has been working at the intersection of education and social impact for more than a decade. In this episode session Diana shares her rich experience working on innovation and impact in a wide-variety of education roles including in the nonprofit, public and higher education sectors. She discusses her lessons building an innovative non-profit that is working to advance language literacy and social impact within Colombia and globally. In addition, she highlights the key trends in education for impact careers, recommendations for those wanting to work in global education and tips for how to upskill. DIana is Productivity and Quality engineer, with an MSc in Environment and development. She ispassionate about children, languages, and social impact. For Diana, education is the tool to fight poverty and reduce inequalities.She has more than 12 years of experience in the educational sector, working for universities, the government and non-state actors leading projects and partnerships at the national and international level. Diana is the Founder and CEO of GLOT Inc, an International organization that creates social impact through languages. She is an adjunct professor at a business school with the course International Relations. A Spanish native speaker, DIana speaks English, French, some basic Swahili, and is currently learning Italian. This session is supported by the Rotary Peace Fellowship, a fully-funded master's degree or certificate in peace and development studies.

Curious about how to build a career with finance and climate? In episode 8 of Season 9 this session Dimitry shares key tips for finance and non-finance people who strive to work at the intersection of finance, planet and impact. This is an area of tremendous growth as there is a desperate need to not only move capital out of destructive industries and investing, but also to radically scale investments in companies that are building services and products that are advancing a more sustainable world. Dimitry will discuss lessons from his career, what skills are needed to work in this area (as well as potential roles for non-finance people), and tips for upskilling. Dimitry Gershenson is the co-founder and CEO of Enduring Planet. Dimitry has worked in climate and impact investing for over a decade, partnering with, and investing in startups, funds, and non-profits across the US, Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Prior to Enduring Planet, Dimitry led M&A and served as COO for Rango Wireless, an Enduring Ventures portfolio company. Before that, Dimitry built Meta's Energy Access program, a $15M+ investing initiative that enabled energy access for 3M people and unlocked nearly $500M in additional capital in underserved markets like Kenya and India. While at Meta, Dimitry also led the development of multiple predictive ML products in the cleantech space and built corporate accelerator programs for impact startups in India and Puerto Rico. Dimitry has an MS in Energy and Resources from UC Berkeley and a BS in Natural Resource Management from Rutgers University. He lives in Portland,OR with his wife, 4 y/o daughter, and bird.

In episode 7 of Season 9 Lydia Cardona key tips and lessons from building a career in the growing but still highly competitive social impact space. She highlights how to develop skills, advance networks and find the right (often) winding path, while building a career across diverse sectoral areas. In addition, she discusses strategies for dealing with the ups and downs that frequently occur and being open to the surprising opportunities that emerge during a career journey. Cardona may be the inventor of the term "career mindfulness". If you want to learn what that is, sit down and take a listen. Lydia works in the social responsibility sector helping translate complex ideas into actionable practice for diverse audiences. She is a firm believer in systems thinking for social change, rooted in her experience working as an advisor on conflict sensitivity, human rights, gender, and climate issues. She is passionate about social justice, sustainability, and community resilience and works actively on these issues in a personal capacity. Lydia holds a masters in International Peace Studies.

Aditi Pathak shares key lessons from working on advancing change in a wide-range of sectors including sustainability, building the capacity of thousands of educators and students through her work with the UN, her applied research experience and working on innovative solutions to advance educational opportunities for those from low resource contexts. She also explores paths to advance skills, how to move from local to national and then global impact. Aiditi is a learning experience specialist with 15+ years of international experience in research and program management. Thematically, most of her work has been in the field of education with a focus on ESD (Education for Sustainable Development), GCE (Global Citizenship Education), SEL (Social & Emotional Learning), educations for refugees and migrants and Digital learning. Apart from education, she also worked on livelihood generation and public health with expertise in designing research studies, awareness and outreach programmes, leading and delivering teacher and student training workshops (online and offline), developing programme communication strategies, establishing monitoring & evaluation processes, and partnership building. Since 2015, she has been actively working in the field of Virtual Exchange and have successfully reached out to students and teachers from across the globe. Through her work she has been promoting the values of collaboration, perspective-taking, intercultural understanding and active citizenship- essential SE ( Social and Emotional) and Global Citizenship skills and impacted students in 10 countries. Her research has been at the intersectionality of intercultural competence, Social and Emotional Learning and Global Citizenship understanding student perception and attitude on key global issues. To scale up her work, technology has been a great enabler and she has been working towards creating innovative online courses on some of the above-mentioned themes. She is currently working on increasing educational access for migrants and refugees in low-resource contexts. Watch the podcast if that is your thing here To access the 100+ previous episodes https://pcdn.global/listen/

Featuring Innovator, Peacebuilder, Artist, Nonprofit Management Specialist and Rotary Peace Fellow (from Uppsala University) Marcus Tan de Bibiana. Marcus shares strategic ways in which his personal interests such as art, wellness & conflict resolution became professional areas. Over his career to date, Marcus has engaged in diverse roles including project management, peer learning, & art. In challenging environments, his past few years consulting involved peacebuilding & resilience planning & assessment, decolonized learning, humanitarian operations, participatory processes & photovoice. To access the 100+ previous episodes https://pcdn.global/listen/ If you prefer to watch the live recorded episode

Behind the Canadian-career consulting firm and very popular Tweeter account MomentswithBren is the amazing Brenda McWilson-Okorogba. Originally from Nigeria, Brenda is an award-winning service and learning experience designer, grant writer, facilitator and an applied positive Psychology coach with over 9-years of experience ideating, designing and delivering outcome-based programming for diverse learners across industries, sectors and geographies. In this episode Brenda will talk about her very own Skill Assessment Tool, To Don't lists; how to nail Mentoriships; the Anti-Goals and the Documentation Approach to Networking. Simply, the best career tips you could ever receive. Telling anything more will spoil the episode. Sit back, relax and enjoy Brenda's wisdom and unparallel energy and then follow her on Tweeter, Medium and Linkedin. Interested in watching it? Click here for the Linkedin video or go to PCDN's Youtube channel. Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast. Become a member of the PCDN Career Campusto get daily access (to job opportunities) community(network with other impact professionals); learning with sector-experts and receive guidance from PCDN Career Coaches. Book a session PCDN Coaching Services Subscribe to PCDN.global's Weekly Newsletter This episode was brought to you thanks to the Rotary Peace Fellowship

Episode 3 of The Social Change Career Podcast explores the links between sustainability and investing with with Zach Stein. Zach is the co-founder of Carbon Collective which utilizes finances to solve climate change. This episode talks about how he started as a worm farmer to co-founding Carbon Collective. Zach shares his experience and tips on sustainable investing. If you are seeking to explore how to link your finances to social impact (which should be all of us as we only have one planet) or if you are interested in building a career in this growing sector, take a listen to today's episode. Zach began his post-college career with a fellowship on an urban farm. That spun out to worm farming, which led him into aquaponics, then aquaculture with his first tech startup, Osmo Systems. And in 2020, Zach set out to build a new climate company to better collectivize individual climate actions. He has the pleasure of working on it with his oldest friend as his cofounder. Zach currently lives in the East Bay Area with his wife and son. Episode recorded April 12th, 2022. Interested in watching it? Click here for the Linkedin video or go to PCDN.global Youtube channel This podcast episode is supported by the Rotary Peace Fellowship. Every year, 130 individuals are selected to receive a generous award from The Rotary Foundation that funds tuition, living expenses, international field experience, and research/conference opportunities at one of the Rotary Peace Centers, located within eight leading universities around the world. Check out The PCDN Career Campus, group career coaching, networking sessions, expert -led webinars, daily newsletters with tons of jobs and opportunities in the impact sector; office hours.