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Essays from the conversations
Long-form notes from each episode, plus the occasional editorial from the hosts or an AI interpretation of the episode transcript.
Editorial
Notes on the Pause Button: How AI Plays Its Role Without Doing the Reflecting
Every essay on this site ends with five reflection prompts. They rotate through the Pause & Reflect tile on the blog page. Here…
6 min read
Episode 9
Purpose and Task: What Do You Tell the Next Generation?
Hosts-only. The question all three keep getting asked, from students, emerging leaders, and colleagues who lost their jobs. What…
8 min read
Episode 8
Risk in the Round: From Compliance to Strategy, and the Generational Fight
Notes from our conversation with Sabrina Segal, Director of The Risk Collaborative. Once risk is the effect of uncertainty on…
7 min read
Episode 7
Not Just a Funding Problem: A Sunday Knock and What Came After
Ali Al Mokdad opened the door on a Sunday morning. A family with two children, holding an NGO flyer. His trained brain went…
6 min read
Episode 6
The Sector Is Changing. How Do You Make Sense Of It?
Kim Kucinskas came back from a month on the road, Buenos Aires then Oxford, and needed to think out loud. This episode is that…
4 min read
Editorial
Notes from the Editing Room: How This Podcast Actually Works
How we choose guests. Why we publish irregularly. What we are listening for in 2026. The editorial logic behind the conversations.
3 min read
Episode 5
Who Are You in the Room? Identity, Positionality, and the Quiet Politics of Showing Up
When Aisha Tambajang sat down with us, she didn't reach for talking points. She reached for a question. One most of the sector…
4 min read
Episode 4
Urgent Patience: Why Idealism Is Not Naivety, and Other Lessons from a CEO Who Lasted
Sofia Sprechmann Sineiro spent thirty years inside one of the largest humanitarian organisations in the world. She left with her…
4 min read
Episode 3
Leadership Under Pressure: When the System Stops Working and No One Wants to Say It
There's a moment in every sector reform conversation when someone says "we need to be honest." Then everyone leans in. Then no…
4 min read
Episode 2
What Does "Sector" Even Mean Anymore?
A listener wrote in. They wanted to know if we actually believed in the word in our own podcast title. It was the right question.
3 min read
Episode 1
What This Space Is About: Why We Started The Sector Debrief
There are enough polished podcasts in this sector. There are enough panels. There are enough frameworks. We started this for the…
3 min read