Scaling Up for Social Impact.
Course Detail
Start Date
TBD
Time Commitment
4-6 Hours per week
Duration
5 weeks,
1 live session per week
Format
Online
Price
$1200 per person, $2500 per organization up to 3 members
What you will learn
- Different pathways to scale and scaling up approaches
- An analytical framework to prepare your organization for the scaling up process
- Lessons and pitfalls to avoid from organizations who have done it successfully
- What evidence you need to learn and adapt through the scaling up process
Who should participate
- CEOs, COOs, managers and decision-makers who are trying to take an initiative or an organization to scale.
- This course is especially relevant to managers and other leaders who are working on an intervention that has proven potential for social impact at a greater scale, has been in operations for 2-3 years and is ready to go to the next level.
- Organizations are highly encouraged to take this course in cohorts of 2 to -3 decision makers that are highly involved in the intervention you want to scale.
Know the Instructors.
Jimena Vallejos
Director of Programs
Jimena Vallejos
Director of Programs
Jimena has over seven years of program management experience in poverty elimination and financial inclusion programs. She is Imago's Director of Programs and is working directly with Lever for Change, UN Women, SEWA Bharat, National Marine Mammal Foundation, the World Bank, and Poverty Stoplight. Previously, she worked as manager of the Poverty Stoplight, a participatory poverty assessment tool that has been replicated in over 29 countries and has consulted with the Government of Paraguay on Early Childhood Development policies. Jimena holds a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University. Prior to joining Imago, she was part of our Fellows’ program and collaborated with Transforming Rural India in New Delhi. She is a certified scrum master.
Michael Walton
Director For Economic Development, Research, And Strategy
Michael Walton
Director For Economic Development, Research, And Strategy
In addition to his work with IMAGO, Michael has been teaching at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government since 2004. He is also Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, Delhi. Prior to moving to Harvard, he worked for over 20 years at the World Bank, including as global Director for Poverty Reduction, Chief Economist for East Asia, and director of two World Development Reports, on labor and on inequality. Michael is also a dancer and continues to take modern dance classes as an integral part of his life.
Isabel Guerrero
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Scaling Up, Livelihoods
Isabel Guerrero
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Scaling Up, Livelihoods
Isabel Guerrero is driven to change the world in which she lives. Throughout her career, she’s helped those with the least break out of the cycle of poverty while celebrating the intrinsic beauty and dignity in each person. With this goal in mind, Isabel and Zachary Green co-founded IMAGO Global Grassroots, an organization focused on giving people living in poverty the tools to build their own destiny. Isabel worked for 30 years at the World Bank, including five years as Vice-President for the South Asia region, managing a US$39 billion portfolio.
While presenting a different set of challenges, Isabel’s work with IMAGO offers tremendous potential to change the world through tackling some of the most intractable development problems we face today.
In addition to her work with IMAGO, Isabel is on the board of the Presencing Institute at MIT and a Council Member of the United Nations University. She is an economist from London School of Economics and a psychoanalyst trained at the Washington Psychoanalytic Society. Isabel teaches “Scaling Up for Development Impact” at Harvard and is a Senior Lecturer in leadership at MIT.
