What Makes a Leadership Voice Credible?
Within weeks of a new chief executive’s first address to staff, managers were framing their own team conversations in the CEO’s terms. The CEO’s thinking was now present in rooms the CEO was never in, and staff heard one voice in two places. That is what a leadership voice looks like when it works. Executive […]
Day Two at the 2026 International SBCC Summit: Doing More with Less
Day Two leaned into one of the field’s toughest realities: doing more with less. Speakers challenged participants to rethink funding, forge unexpected partnerships, and build social and behavior change programs designed to endure. The conversations were practical, optimistic, and rooted in action. Read More on sbccsummit.org
Why Stakeholder Meetings Stall, and What Strategic Facilitation Does About It
I once sat in a meeting between a state agency, two partner organizations, and a funder. After two hours, the group agreed to introduce a shared monthly review, led by the agency, before the end of the quarter. People shook hands and left believing the decision had been made. Six weeks later, nothing had started. […]
Nigeria Innovation Summit 2026 to spotlight AI, emerging technologies in Lagos
With just days to go, all is set for the 11th edition of the Nigeria Innovation Summit (NIS), as innovators, entrepreneurs, policymakers, investors, technology leaders, researchers, business executives and development stakeholders from Nigeria and around the world prepare to converge in Lagos to explore how AI and emerging technologies can accelerate development across Africa. Read […]
Trust Is the Infrastructure Impact Runs On
By Olufunke Olufon Contents Trust as the Missing Multiplier Leadership Voice Is a Public Responsibility Institutions as Trust Builders or Trust Leakers? The Trust–Impact Loop Trust is not reputational polish. It is operational necessity. Trust rarely appears on balance sheets, development frameworks, or policy scorecards, yet it determines whether any of them succeed. Across governments, […]
Institutional Trust Deficits: The Silent Tax on African Innovation
There is a tax that does not appear in any national budget. It is not collected by a revenue authority, does not show up in a fiscal deficit, and is never debated in the National Assembly. Yet it is paid every day by entrepreneurs who cannot access capital, by businesses that cannot close partnerships they […]