Maya Hasan

Cohort 2 - September 2023

Cohort 3 - April 2024

Cohort 1 - June 2023

Cohort 1

Cohort 4 - July 2024

Power dynamics must be understood, identified, and challenged for equal partnerships to exist. Many organizations and donors actively use power analysis and equitable decision-making tools to improve their partnerships. It's time you did too. This is a 60-minute abridged virtual workshop of Module 1: Power and Decision-Making of the Shifting Power Accelerator. In it, you will learn:<ul><li>​how to identify power - formal and informal types</li><li>how to evaluate levels of community participation</li><li>​how to reflect on power, privilege, positionality</li></ul>

Power & Decision-Making Workshop

Effective influencing is the key to overcoming emotional and institutional barriers to equal partnerships in social impact. Many leaders use change management best practices and stakeholder mapping to successfully drive their shifting power efforts. Do you? This is a 60-minute abridged virtual workshop of Module 3 of the Shifting Power Accelerator. You will learn: <ul><li>how to identify power by type: authority or influence</li><li>how and when to use power, rights, or interest-based approaches to change</li><li>the key elements of a successful change initiative</li></ul>

Influencing for Change Workshop

This brochure is a PDF version of the course website for easy reading. It's also helpful for sharing with your employer. Download this free resource as a quick reference and advocacy document to help you access professional development funds.

Shifting Power Accelerator Course Brochure (PDF)

Want to get a behind-the-scenes look at the Shifting Power Accelerator? This is a recording of a 50-minute informational session on the Shifting Power Accelerator, a transformative 7-week cohort-based course for global aid and development leaders ready to take action and shift power in their organizations and partnerships. This recording includes:<ul><li>a course overview of the S﻿hifting Power Accelerator</li><li>a sneak peek of the course platform</li><li>a conversation with Cohort 1 alumni Kate Cummings about her experience, and</li><li>a l﻿ive Q&amp;A session</li></ul>

Your sneak peek of the Shifting Power Accelerator

Build a shifting power roadmap, earn stakeholder trust and gain the technical skills you need to remain relevant in the future of global aid

Mahrukh (Maya) Hasan

Sr. UN, USG & NGO Consultant. DEI and Innovation Expert. 20+ years of experience.

Fearless Project

Tackle bias with courage and confidence

Shifting Power Accelerator

Child Sponsorship Transformation Advisor

Founder & Consultant

Program Engineer

Human Rights Practitioner

Founder and Director 

Head of Localisation

Grants Specialist

Transformation Adviser

Girl and Youth Engagement Specialist

Partner Led Programming Manager

The future of global aid is in ⚡️ building equitable partnerships,⚡️ empowering local leaders, and⚡️ shifting&nbsp;power&nbsp;to the communities we serve. That future is now. Have you taken the time to develop the skills, practice, and confidence needed to redefine your role and remain relevant in this future? If you haven't, the Shifting Power Accelerator will give you the time you need and so much more. Designed for busy professionals working for powerful institutions in the global non-profit, philanthropic, and public sectors, this course will help you navigate barriers to shifting power by learning the emerging best practice in key thematic areas: 🌍 Liberatory Futures🌍 Power and Decision-Making🌍 Influencing for Change🌍 Mutual Capacity Strengthening🌍 Community-Led Design🌍 Participatory Grantmaking🌍 Movement Building I've carefully crafted a practical, cohort-based course drawing from industry-tested frameworks in each focus area. I've also curated case studies from sector leaders who candidly share their challenges and steps to incremental change. Besides group discussion with your peers (which you'll get plenty of), the most exciting part of the course is the experience of shifting power in real-time. At the start of the course, you will have the opportunity to invite a community accountability partner (e.g., a community or civil society leader or Global South colleague you have an existing relationship with) to participate with you. You will share course frameworks with your Community Accountability Partner between each workshop, actively listen and reflect on the dynamics of your partnership, and work together on prioritized areas of power imbalance. I'll be available during weekly office hours and 24/7 via the online course platform to offer personalized support for your specific and immediate challenges and goals. Together, we will actively contribute to long-overdue changes across the global non-profit sector. I can't wait to see you on the course! MayaFacilitator, Shifting Power Accelerator P.S. Not ready for a 90-day commitment? You're not alone. That's why I'm launching a series of self-paced masterclasses on equitable partnerships and community-led development that will be announced very soon. Sign up for this waitlist to get notified as soon as we launch! https://maven.com/forms/9cce5b

Gain the skills & confidence to redefine your role and shift power in 90 days.

A highly practical, grounded curriculum

One module per week with lessons walking you through shifting power topics and workshops to practice them. Workshop recordings are available within an hour, with additional resources to help you complete the next project.

👩🏻‍🏫 Live Workshops

Six 1hr live Q&amp;A calls with Maya (or a Guest Expert) and the rest of the cohort to answer questions and dive deeper into that week's module and projects.

🙋‍♂️ Q&A with Maya or Special Guest

Develop a Shifting Power Initiative by completing a series of small weekly assignments with your community accountability partner.&nbsp;Reflect and apply course frameworks following each workshop and work together on priority areas of power imbalance.

🫱🏼‍🫲🏾 Partner Assignments

One 60-minute video call with Maya to discuss a topic of your choice, usually a professional, leadership, or organizational challenge. Get personalized feedback and advice within two months of the course.

💡 1:1 Coaching

Stay in touch with Maya and other Shifting Power Accelerator Alumni via a WhatsApp group, an email listserv, Zoom support calls, and in-person meet-ups (at the bi-annual #ShiftThePower Summit or whenever possible!).

🌐  Community of Practice

An Applied, Practical Curriculum

You’re a non-profit, philanthropic, or public sector professional at a powerful institution expressly committed to shifting power.

Your organization has localization or equal partnership plans, but you need tools, examples, and support to implement them successfully.

You are ready to shift power meaningfully in the next 90 days, and have an existing or new change initiative you can focus on.

This course is for you if...

Practice industry-tested frameworks used by leading #ShiftThePower organizations  

Shifting power requires critical inquiry. You’ll ask key questions to interrogate your motivations and your role, as well as measure how equal or community-led your partnership really is.

Validate your locally-led or community-led goals and objectives.

Embrace a mutual capacity-strengthening model over outdated top-down capacity-building approaches. You'll prioritize areas for partner-led growth.

Give up gatekeeping for good.

Unrestricted funding can seem like a compliance nightmare. You’ll learn how flexible funds and participatory grantmaking work so that you can build your own mechanisms with partner and donor support.

Overcome barriers to flexible funding.

Inviting input on project ideas is not enough for equal partnership. You’ll practice participatory and co-design methods for a truly community-led and bottom-up approach.

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