444. Evolved Leadership Panel: How Leaders Can Center Authenticity, Collaboration + Community - Ben Collier, Boi Carpenter, Brooke Richie-Babbage + Rena Greifinger
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Calling all leaders (spoiler alert: that’s YOU!) 📣Join this panel of modern leaders as we explore the mindsets that might be holding you and your mission back. Immerse yourself in an evolved way to look at leadership: one that centers empathy, inclusivity, and equity at its core. Trust-based leadership grounds this discussion as we explore mindsets, culture and innovation.
Special Guests
Boi Carpenter, Founder of Inquisitive Leader + SAVP Johns Hopkins University
Rena Greifinger, Director of Experiential Philanthropy
Brooke Richie-Babbage, CEO, Bending Arc
Ben Collier, CEO, The Farmlink Project
“If you’re looking at true mission-driven work, it requires such a commitment to collaboration.”
Episode Highlights
What is Evolved Leadership (2:00)
Mindsets for Evolved Leadership (6:20)
Practical skills for leaders (14:30)
Building trust within nonprofits (21:25)
Future thinking and visionary leadership (23:20)
Balancing impact and mental health (25:00)
Collaboration and abundance mindset (29:00)
Embracing Vulnerability and Authenticity (34:00)
One Good Thing (35:10)
Brooke: Check in on your superpower.
Ben: Couple a learner’s mindset with a beginner's mindset.
Boi: Be intentional about how you give your power away.
Rena: You only shine as brightly as your team does.
Episode Transcript
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Powerful Quotes
“Leaders really need to be transformational learners and not just informational learners. So we can buy books and read things, but what it really takes is us making that shift ourselves within the spaces that we exist in, and the systems that we exist in, as well." -Boi Carpenter
"None of us can do what we do alone and so being intentional about building communities around ourselves, communities of mentorship, and peer support, it's just really critical for sustaining ourselves in this actor practice of leadership." -Brooke Richie-Babbage
"It’s about recognizing that if you're looking at systems change if you're looking at true mission-driven work, it requires such a commitment to collaboration." -Ben Collier
“You have to have a mindset of openness and active learning" -Brooke Richie-Babbage
"I think everything stems from mindset and the narratives that we bring to ourselves, and that we bring to the work... And very importantly, who should be at the table with us alongside us in our leadership." - Brooke Richie-Babbage
"We have to believe that the pie is big enough for all of us, whether we're talking about funding, or finding the right staff or expanding our program to meet expanding need, we have to believe that there are people out there to be rallied, that the funding is there for all of us that we're not competing over a tiny slice of a small pie, it's actually massive, and that the impact is there to be had. " -Brooke Richie-Babbage
"If we want philanthropy to work for system change, we need to reimagine philanthropy and that really starts with exploring and understanding power and then disrupting the very inherent power imbalance between donors and grantees." - Rena Greifinger
"We really need a system that shifts the power of decision making and control to those who are doing the hard work of solving problems every day and bringing donors along as learners." - Rena Greifinger
"What are those signals that exist in our organizations in society and the work that we're doing that really are an indication that change and disruption is kind of on the forefront." - Boi Carpenter
"It all comes back to trust... Trust is at an all-time low for nonprofits so it's really imperative for us as leaders to figure out how to build that and that starts from within.” - Jonathan McCoy
"Every single person is playing a critical role that we wouldn't have them do if we didn't think it helped drive our mission forward." - Ben Collier
"Teams want to know why they're doing what they're doing and they want to know that what they're doing matters." - Boi Carpenter
"If we are depleted, if we are burned out, if we've lost sight of our Northstar, then it's really hard to show up for and support our team and our people. It's hard to be abundant, it's hard to be open." -Brooke Richie-Babbage
"You are worthy of rest... we simply cannot keep pouring into these missions and problems if we are depleted." - Becky Endicott
"In the nonprofit sector, we are so accustomed to operating from a place of scarcity... we need to change that... we can lift up the entire system and change the world for women and girls." - Rena Greifinger
“In the nonprofit sector, we are so accustomed to operating from a place of scarcity, and feeling that we have to be in competition over collaboration and that just absolutely needs to change.” -Rena Greifinger
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