Teaching
Executive education, practitioner learning, and speaking on impact measurement, impact investing, and systems thinking.
Across these settings, I try to make ideas accessible and navigable, bring in the voices and experiences of practitioners, show instances of application, and provide structured ways to learn — from frameworks and tools to peer learning, case studies, and broader dissemination.
The aim is not just to share knowledge on approaches and tools, but practical guidance and examples to help make better choices and trade-offs — especially in innovative, complex, or contested settings — for both strategic/technical and behavioural/relational aspects.
A recurring part of this work includes mapping where the field has come from, what the current state of practice looks like, what models and approaches are being used and how we know what is working, where the challenges lie, and what it will take to move forward.
Founding Programme Director. Now in its eighth year, the programme enables leaders to navigate the complexity of measuring and managing social impact — with an active alumni community and ongoing learning events that extend the experience well beyond the initial week.
Guest Faculty since 2015. This is the world’s first and longest-running executive education programme in impact investing at a leading business school. I usually teach on impact measurement and management and related topics (strategy, incentives, systems change).
Programme website →Guest Faculty since 2021. For individuals who have experience allocating capital for impact, and want to deepen their knowledge of deal contracts, fund structures, and new technologies. I usually teach on systems perspectives for impact investing, IMM, and impact-linked approaches.
Programme website →Contributing to cohort-based learning programmes including the Fundamentals of IMM, combining foundational teaching with peer learning for both new and experienced practitioners.
impactfrontiers.org →Bringing together advanced practitioners working on new structures, strategies, and incentives for impact — including work on impact-linked finance and reporting on systemic impact.
innovative.finance →Skoll Fellow. Practice research in impact investing, impact measurement, and systems change.
Skoll Centre →TIL Fellow. Research on impact measurement, impact investing, and social entrepreneurship.
Lab website →Designed and delivered a 4-day executive programme on impact measurement and management for impact investors at the Graduate School of Business. Multiple years.
Co-developed the syllabus and delivered executive training with university partners in Accra and Johannesburg. 24 modules across three themes.
Co-developed and co-taught a semester-long undergraduate course on social entrepreneurship (using the business model canvas and live case approach) for three years.
Co-developed and co-taught a semester-long graduate-level engineering course on social entrepreneurship (using a systems change and BMC approach) for three years.
If you are organizing a programme, conference, or workshop and looking for a speaker or facilitator on any of these themes, please get in touch via LinkedIn.
Bringing clarity to core concepts and issues; navigating the landscape of tools and approaches; and critically examining standards and practices.
How financial incentives can be tied to social and environmental outcomes — and what that requires of structures, measurement, reporting, governance, and design.
How to evaluate whether a fund, programme, or initiative achieved what it intended — and how it informs what happens next.
How impact investing markets get built, financed, governed, and sustained — standards, field-level infrastructure, and institutional development.
Theory of change, portfolio approaches, impact due diligence, and integrated performance and learning — building, improving, aligning, and leading.
How to integrate systems perspectives across strategy, investment processes, IMM, and governance — approaches, challenges, and opportunities.
Speaking
I speak regularly at conferences, convenings, workshops, and private events across a range of audiences and formats. Filter by year or region.