In this episode of the Modesta Mahiga 360 Leadership Podcast, Dr. Carolyne A. Opinde, Founder & CEO, The NGO Whisperer: Centre for Social Impact addressed all the elephants in the room as she spoke to us about the innovation, investment, and impact leaders and their organizations need to adopt to lead through global shifts.

Bio

Carolyne A. Opinde, Dr.h.c. is an award-winning thought leader, futurist, author, lecturer and international speaker known for her expertise in social innovation, investment, and impact.

She is the Founder and CEO of The NGO Whisperer® Centre For Social Impact and a dedicated champion of building a sustainable world, now and for the future.

As publisher and lead author of Fit For The Future: A Guidebook For Nonprofits To Thrive In a Changing World, Dr. Opinde empowers organisations to adapt and flourish.

She cultivates strategic cross-sector partnerships with the public, private and social impact organisations to advance meaningful change on a global scale.

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Suzie Li—formerly Teete—is a qualified executive coach, counsellor, seasoned HR professional, and the Founder and Owner of Eli Counselling, Coaching & Wellbeing.

Suzie is known for creating honest, transformative, and deeply grounded spaces, from leading teams and projects to supporting clients through life's turning points.

With over two decades of experience across purpose-driven organisations and international teams, Suzie brings a unique blend of strategic HR expertise and psychological insight.

Her journey into coaching and counselling was no accident—it stemmed from a lifelong curiosity about what drives people, what holds them back, and how they grow.

Outside of her professional work, she leads with heart in her personal life, too—as a wife, mother, friend, and cook.

She’s passionate about mindfulness, storytelling, and the quiet but powerful moments where real change begins.

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In your line of work, you will meet people who are either Gatekeepers or Door-Openers.

Your job as a leader is to identify and effectively influence them to maximize your, your team, and the organization's access.

This will require you to learn how to navigate power and influence.

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In this episode, Dr. Alinda Mashiku, a real-life rocket scientist, talks about taking moonshots at NASA and in life. Her message? Set a stretch goal that matters, make bold moves, and if you fail, don't tap out—recalibrate, get back on course, and don't give up until you reach your destination.

Dr. Alinda Mashiku is the Conjunction Assessment Risk Analysis (CARA) Program Manager at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. The CARA program is an agency function that is responsible for providing risk analysis for ~100 un-crewed satellite missions to prevent on-orbit collisions and ensure the safety of the space environment.

In this role, she is responsible for providing programmatic and technical leadership for ground operations elements, interfacing with multiple mission operations centers, and overseeing various advanced technologies and engineering application areas.

Dr. Mashiku joined NASA in 2013 as a spacecraft navigation and mission trajectory design engineer, supporting various missions, such as the James-Webb Space Telescope and the OSIRIS-Rex mission.

She is the author or co-author of over a dozen conference and journal papers and has received multiple NASA Awards, including the 2020 Engineering and Technology Directorate Excellence in Safety & Quality Assurance Award and a 2020 NASA Mission Engineering and Systems Analysis Division Individual Special Act Award. She was also a recipient of the NASA GSRP (Graduate Student Research Program) Fellowship from 2010 to 2013.

Dr. Mashiku is also the Co-Founder and President of The Joule Foundation Inc. This 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization runs STEAM-based workshops for high-school girls in Tanzania, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe.

Dr. Mashiku obtained her bachelor’s degree Cum Laude in Aerospace Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2007, and then both her master’s and PhD in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University in 2009 and 2013 consecutively.

She lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her wonderful husband and two amazing boys.

In this episode I am joined by Andrew Mahiga, Private Sector Specialist, Tanzania.

He speaks on “How to Build a Globally Competitive African Private Sector”.

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I had an impactful conversation with Herb Cogliano, former CEO of Sullivan and Cogliano Designers, International Business Growth Advisor, and Certified Scaling Up Coach, on the topic ‘How to Execute the 4 Critical Decisions to Scale Up Your Business’.

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In this episode, I am joined by Kendra Gaither, The President of the U.S.-Africa Business Center, to speak on the topic ‘Advancing U.S.-Africa Business Partnerships’.

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Leadership can be daunting, which is why this episode is wholly dedicated to improving leadership effectiveness.

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Leadership can be daunting, which is why this episode is wholly dedicated to improving leadership effectiveness.

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Leadership can be daunting, which is why this episode is wholly dedicated to improving leadership effectiveness.

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