I’m having a hard time believing that we’ve made it to episode 150, here on the Terms of Reference Podcast.I’m grateful you’ve taken the time to join me on this journey and I hope you’ll stick around and, more importantly, join in the conversation.

There is a beautiful simplicity to the commercial sector. Anyone can create products and services that satisfy a real or perceived need in whatever market(s) they want. Then, with the right marketing and (hopefully) added value from the “”better mouset...

We’ve be fortunate enough to have guests on this show from across the entire spectrum of the social sector and from around the world. One of the common issues we’ve talked about is resource scarcity and how that presents both unique opportunities for i...

Let’s say you woke up tomorrow to the sound of someone knocking at your door. And, when you answer, the person standing outside politely explained that they were a representative of an energy company that had recently acquired the rights to extract the...

How obsessed are you with goal setting? I mean seriously – if you’ve been living on planet earth you know that, those invested in the science of achievement, have done an incredible job of not only convincing,

Two very common themes in the aid and development community are “resource scarcity” (some even call this resource starvation) and “locally driven solutions.” The particular resource scarcity I am referring to is a lack of funding.

While we live in a world of unprecedented prosperity for many, we also live in a world that is experiencing unprecedented levels of humanitarian crisis. You know the examples: protracted violent conflicts,  devastation caused by earthquakes or hurrican...

We’ve had a lot of change makers on this show over the past two years – people and organizations that are redefining old systems and creating new products and processes that demand completely new ways of thinking about how we serve those in need.

] One reason that innovation has become one of those words that you just cannot escape in social impact, is the fact that the institutions that have occupied this space for the bulk of history are the anthesis of what we would consider “shiny new objec...

I invite you to pause just for a second and take a moment to think about the last time you changed your mind about something. Specifically, I’d like for you to identify something that was either very important to you or your worldview,