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Lynda Mansson spent close to thirty years in the nonprofit sector, most recently as Director General of the MAVA Foundation, a large family philanthropic foundation. She started her career about as far from philanthropy as it gets: as a stockbroker. Today she's a leadership coach for mission driven leaders, working from a framework of six practices that separate those who sustain impact from those who burn out chasing it.

Lynda walks Steve and Philipp through why transformation problems almost always trace back to leadership rather than strategy, citing a study MAVA commissioned with Cambridge University's Conservation Evidence group that found over 85 percent of failed projects came down to people issues. She makes the case for stakeholder capitalism over shareholder value, unpacks what happens when a leader's personal values collide with their organization's stated ones, and explains why stated values without follow through are just pretty words on a piece of paper.

The conversation closes on what boards should screen for in a new CEO, and why the pressure leaders feel today is never going away, so the real work is changing our relationship to it.

If you're trying to sustain impact without burning out your team or yourself, this episode will give you language for it.

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