Category Archives: Social Change

Finding Purpose in Times of Uncertainty

Posted on July 8, 2020 by roshanjpaul

During the coronavirus pandemic, I did a virtual session (from my bedroom!) for the Circular Apparel Innovation Factory as part of a series of lectures on supporting organizations in the field of sustainable fashion. My talk was on the topic … Continue reading →

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Chasing Off a Lion with a Mop: Graduation advice to our previous class in India

Posted on July 1, 2020 by roshanjpaul

During commencement speech season, a few months ago, I gave the following virtual speech to our class of graduating Amani Fellows in India. You can read the full speech here.

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Managing your career during COVID-19

Posted on May 29, 2020 by roshanjpaul

The India Development Review invited me to reflect on the implications of the coronavirus pandemic for careers in the social impact sector in 2020 and beyond. Here is the “straight-talk” piece I wrote for them about where I see careers … Continue reading →

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A Medical School for Changemaking

Posted on May 18, 2020 by roshanjpaul

As part of their series on innovations in higher education, Ashoka U and the Stanford Social Innovation Review invited us to write about Amani Institute’s award-winning Social Innovation Management program. Here is the article we wrote for them.

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Success Factors That Overcome the Talent Bottleneck Across Social Enterprises in Asia

Posted on November 21, 2019 by roshanjpaul

In 2019, we at Amani Institute were honoured by a big award and associated funding from Argidius Foundation to scale up our pioneering leadership development program for middle- and senior-managers of SGBs in East Africa to India and Brazil. It … Continue reading →

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Walk Your Talk

Posted on April 30, 2019 by roshanjpaul

The Walk Your Talk event series is where changemakers around the world share stories of when they had to confront adversity and make a choice about how they are going to act, what decisions they take in the face of … Continue reading →

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6 Insights about changemaking – and the difference between knowing something and understanding it

Posted on December 20, 2018 by roshanjpaul

A few weeks ago, I sat watching the final presentations from our class of Social Innovation Management Fellows in India. I was struck by 2 things. First, that in each presentation there was a deep insight, one that had the potential to … Continue reading →

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A Failure Playlist to Help You Sleep at Night

Posted on August 13, 2018 by roshanjpaul

Failure is endemic to social impact work. Unfortunately, it’s also endemic to love. And thus, songwriters have always been able to tap into the bowels of failure to help us feel better with our lives. Published in the India Development … Continue reading →

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My Stanford Social Innovation Review series

Posted on January 3, 2018 by roshanjpaul

I’ve collaborated with the Stanford Social Innovation Review to write a series of articles about our work in social innovation education. Here is the list of articles I wrote or co-wrote as part of the series, in chronological order. In July 2017, … Continue reading →

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How To Survive the Age of Nationalism: A First Step in Finding Common Ground

Posted on April 30, 2017 by roshanjpaul

In a world increasingly and bitterly divided along values-based lines, how do we connect with those who disagree with us? And isn’t that an imperative for civil society in this new age of nationalism? On LinkedIn, I describe an experiment … Continue reading →

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