Rick Torseth

10,000 Swamp Leaders

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10,000 Swamp Leaders is a podcast that wades into muddy Swamp in search of people who have built social impact movements. The world needs 10,000 more people in the next five years who are willing to lead on issues like climate change, income inequality, peace building, and gender equality. If you are one of these people, you have found a home. Rick Torseth and his guests will unpack lessons learned, why small wins matter more than breakthroughs and how failure is our wisest teacher. We continue to confuse leading with authority. Leading is not a role or a position. It begins when you raise you...

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Rick Torseth

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Mike Staresinic On Ukraine and Atonement 27.02.2022 30:33

010_ Mike Staresinic returns to the swamp to talk about Ukraine. Mike has many years of experience working in Ukraine in support of cities and communities. He is currently working with a team that is on the ground in Eastern Ukraine. Mike has invested much of his professional life helping the Ukrainians. What is happening today is difficult for him to absorb even with all his experience in the cou...

Multi-Tasking-Master: Safiya Ibn Garba: Leading in Two Organizations for Social Change 22.02.2022 57:34

009 Safiya Ibn Garba: Founder of the Empowering Women for Excellence Initiative (EWEI) in Nigeria and she is the Director of Institutional Learning at Generations for Peace in Amman, Jordan. Safiya is a dedicated change agent who leads multiple programmes that empower women and youth to cultivate tolerance and citizenship in communities experiencing conflict and gender discrimination. Thanks for...

The Scratching Business: Ulziisuren Jamsran's scratching strategy empowers women 15.02.2022 53:05

008 The Scratching Business: Ulziisuren Jamsran, UN Women Representative in Kyrgyzstan shares her leadership lessons from 20 years of international development in gender and women’s equality. She explains why aligning one’s actions to core values and principles are essential to serving those who are in the greatest need of assistance. She also explains why finding the positive deviances in a commu...

Deviating From the Norm: Lars Thuesen on the power of Positive Deviance 08.02.2022 49:28

007 Lars Thuesen Deviating from the “norm”: Lars Thuesen explains why positive deviance is potent and why knowing how to flip matters. Lars is a world leader in the practice of Positive Deviance which is a bit of a hidden gem for fostering social change and impact. Lars will help us understand the leverage of Positive Deviance and how each of us can make use of this approach in our personal life a...

Hybrid Work: Matt Barnaby on building capacity inside the new work world 01.02.2022 52:13

006 Matt Barnaby is a consultant who comes to the Swamp bearing an eclectic portfolio of talents that he deploys to build community capacities. He is a gifted artist which immediately means he sees the world much differently than most of us. He is a master facilitator who has a compelling sense of how to create and hold space for groups of people to work and grow together. As a result of the pande...

Self-Leadership: Nita Baum On How Listening to Self Will Lead To Good 25.01.2022 57:03

004 Nita Baum joins us in the Swamp to share two leadership journeys she is navigating. The first journey is as Founder of B*Free, a consultancy that partners with organizations to transform Workplaces to HealingSpaces for greater equity, humanity and sustainable wellbeing. This is big work and Nita talks about why it matters and what she has learned about helping organizations transform. Nita&apo...

The Persistent Work of Jacob Mayne to Aid the Planet 25.01.2022 55:42

005 Jacob Mayne is an Englishman living in Paris. Immediately we know he’s on to something wise. He is a founder and Managing Partner of NewAngles Consultancy. His work is focused on sustainability and change strategy. He is also an Affiliate Professor at Paris/HEC School of Management and a visiting lecturer at Science Po, Paris. Jacob’s primary goal is helping leaders integrate positive, sustain...

001_The Balkan Architect: Mike Staresinic's Crusade for Democracy Through Open Elections 16.01.2022 49:35

001 Mike Staresinic help's launch 10,000 SwampLeaders with his harrowing story of leading in the Balkans during the struggle for free and open democracy. Mike is a friend and thought partner who brings real world experience and deep commitment to his work for social change. Thanks for listening. Send me your feedback I want to thank my great team that helps me sound better than I am. Jacki H...

Peace Builder: Mark Clark Forges His Global Leadership Experience into Peace Building 16.01.2022 1:01:33

002 Mark Clark is CEO of Generations For Peace located in Amman, Jordan. GFP is dedicated to sustainable conflict transformation at the grassroots, Generations For Peace empowers volunteer leaders of youth to promote active tolerance and responsible citizenship in communities experiencing different forms of conflict and violence. They do this work through carefully facilitated sport-based games, a...

002_Birmingham Food Council: Kate Cooper and the Potency of Speaking Out 16.01.2022 53:35

003 Kate Cooper calls herself a "lippy grandmother, that is all." But she really is so much more than that. Kate is a role model for community building and leading change that directly helps the people in her Birmingham, UK community. She is the Director of Birmingham Food Council CIC, a Visiting Fellow at Aston University and of course, a grandmother. Kate's candor and modesty are...

10,000 Swamp Leaders Trailer 15.01.2022 1:52

000_ 10,000 Swamp Leaders Trailer Thanks for listening. Send me your feedback I want to thank my great team that helps me sound better than I am. Jacki Hydock for her lending her wonderful voice to our introduction and outro Great music by Jazz Night Awesome episode production by the great team of We Edit Podcasts all the way up in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Check them out at www.weeditpodcasts.com...