Post by Catalytica Consulting

The hardest skill in this kind of work as a partnership architect, our co-CEO Sabina Vigani says, isn't learning. It's unlearning. She names it in this strikingly candid conversation with Samuel Kembou, PhD and Nora Marketos: https://bit.ly/3QBAFj8. The more experience you accumulate sitting between government, philanthropy and the private sector, the greater the risk your old playbook quietly gets in the way. This is why unlearning matters. When you unlearn, you're asked to set aside things that feel like knowledge, like expertise, like you. It's uncomfortable precisely because it's familiar. That honesty runs through the whole conversation: about power, about what local partners absorb in silence, and about why genuine partnership means funders accepting a real loss of control. Well worth your time. Olaf Hahn #Localization #Partnerships #SystemsChange #Philanthropy #Leadership