Exciting Changes in 2025 and How You Can Become a Modern Humanitarian and Development Leader

Are you ready to create meaningful change in the humanitarian and development sectors without falling into the trap of overwork and overwhelm?

This episode dives into an emerging leadership approach that prioritizes empathy, empowerment, and people-first strategies. If you're navigating the challenges of localization, decolonization, or cultivating sustainable team dynamics, this episode offers solutions to help you lead effectively while preserving your energy and focus.

In this episode you'll discover:

• How the "Becoming the Modern Humanitarian and Development Leader" course is shaping a movement of empathetic, high-impact leaders.
• Upcoming partnerships with organizations that can expand your leadership training opportunities.
• Gain insights into fostering a coaching culture that enhances team relationships, encourages innovation, and reduces micromanagement.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how 2025 can be your year to achieve more while working less as a modern humanitarian and development leader!

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FULL TRANSCRIPT:

Discover what to expect in 2025 on today's episode.

Welcome to The Modern Humanitarian and Development Leader podcast, the podcast, helping humanitarian and development supervisors make a greater impact by taking control of your time, leading more inclusively and empowering your team all the while avoiding stress, burnout, and overwhelm. I'm your host, leadership coach and former aid worker, Torrey Peace.

Are you ready? Let's get started.

Hello, my aspiring modern humanitarian development leader. I hope you're having a wonderful week. And this is just a really quick episode to give you some exciting news and ideas for 2025 as you plan your training schedule and what you plan on doing over the next year.

So one is that my goal if you don't already know it is to create a movement of humanitarian and development leaders who don't necessarily have to be at the top, but understand that they have the influence, no matter how small a team you have, or a sphere of influence you have, you still have the ability to create change. And my goal is to help, especially those who graduate from my course Becoming the Modern Humanitarian and Development Leader to form a kind of movement together to start to change the development and humanitarian sector from the inside out.

And what I mean by that is to create a culture of very caring and empathetic leaders who understand how to empower their teams. Who understand how to create an even bigger impact. While also stepping away from the overwork and overwhelm and the hustle culture. This is what I hope, that I can help all the graduates from my course, especially the alumni to achieve. And to start to change the culture of their organization so that more and more of us realize that we can make a bigger impact when we slow down. And we focus on people over results. And I think this is what we need in the humanitarian and development sectors when it comes to all the changes that we're seeing with localization and decolonization and so on. To be this type of leader, you need to have a certain way of thinking -a certain way of leading. And that is what I teach in the course. What I see is a lot of my alumni are already influencing those around them to do the same and to Create more impact without the overwork and overwhelm. So that is one thing that I'm very excited about is as I grow the course, as I grow the number of students who graduate, I'm able to create that even more.

And part of the way I'm doing that is several different initiatives that I have going on. One will be the launch that I do through my email list where you find out that course registration is open and so on. But also I am partnering with Humentum and we will probably be doing a podcast episode about this in the next month. And this is a very exciting partnership for me. I think it has a lot of win-win here. What, really attracted me to Humentum was that they do actually walk their talk.

They live into their values. Their CEO, Christine Sow I interviewed her about a year ago, I think. And it was just so impactful for me that I knew I wanted to partner with them. And so they're going to offer my course on their platform. And it's so exciting because I'll be able to reach even more humanitarian and development leaders. I'll have the added power of Humentum and their support and their ideas.

And I have my own way of working and they have theirs and I think that we're going to be able to learn and make each other stronger. And so I'm just so excited about that. And like I said, They'll probably be on an upcoming episode about that in the next month. And then also I have partnered with, at least one organization to create or to really intentionally form more of a learning or coaching culture within that organization.

And I really hope this year, I'll also be able to have them on the podcast so that you can learn from that and their experience and what they are seeing. So far what we've noticed and I don't want to mention the name of the organization as of yet, but like I said, I think that we'll be able to have them on the podcast sometime this year. But so far, what we've noticed is that the leaders that take the course that I'm giving, which is similar to the "Becoming the Modern Humanitarian and Development Leader" course, in that teaches coaching skills and coaching as a way of leading. We are seeing that leaders are having better relationships with their teams, more empathetic, they're listening more, they're gaining more ideas, they're including a broader spectrum of ideas.

They're allowing their teams to do things their own way. They're able to free up their time to focus on bigger picture things because they're not in the day-to-day weeds of solving problems. And just an overall amazing amount of growth considering the short time that these, these students have graduated from the course.

That's all very exciting as well. And we'll continue to expand and 2025. So what this means for you is if you are interested in becoming a modern, humanitarian and development leader you can perhaps join one of the courses for Humentum or through my own platform. Or, if you want to learn more about the work that I'm doing on an organizational level, like I said, I hope to share that in 2025, at some point I'm going to have more alumni of the course on so that if you have any questions for them, you can definitely ask. And like I said, I am supporting the alumni through monthly meetings where I'm encouraging them to broaden their own impact and really take what they've learned and to create more of a coaching culture within their team. But also one that steps away from overwork and overwhelm and really values people.

So these are the things for 2025.

I'm really excited. And also next week, I will have, a special guest on the podcast we've done a collaborative episode, maybe you've heard of her, Tosca of the NGO soul and strategy podcast. So that's also going to be exciting way to start the year and we have a really great and interesting discussion together. So I think you'll enjoy that too. Okay, that's it. I hope you have a great new year and I can't wait to continue updating you on things to come in 2025. All right until then keep evolving bye for now.

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