This is the third of an eight-part series called Policy Matters, based on Michael Sheldrick's newly released book From Ideas to Impact: A Playbook for Influencing and Implementing Change in a Divided World. Michael Sheldrick is the Co-Founder of Global Citizen and has worked with a range of stakeholders to distribute over $40 billion around the world in the past decade to end extreme poverty. In this episode, Heather sets out two safeguards when partnering with imperfect institutions and people: 
 
1. Never assume you know everything;
2. Commit but don't get married. 
 
This episode includes a practical exercise for discerning strategic partnerships for policy entrepreneurship.

Focus on the Ten That Say Yes Not the Ninety That Say No, with Michael Sheldrick


The word “leadership” has become tired.
It’s been gentrified—repackaged as a job description, overselling its glamour whilst underselling its beauty.
Real leaders don’t chase titles. They stay in the hard places, where there’s pushback and limited resources. They endure the subtle and overt ridicule that comes with believing things can be different.
My podcast is for the weird and wonderful ones—the people who keep believing and keep building, even when the system seems designed to make them fail.
If that’s you, let’s be friends. Because the biggest threat to people like us is isolation. The second is never having the skills involved in rebuilding from the ground up taught to us, studied or recognised.
That’s why I created The Academy of Systemic Renewal: a place that champions the science of what we do.
http://systemicrenewal.com
