Webinar I Zoom
November 29th 2023, 2pm CET
Open webinar I Zoom
Systems are everywhere and it is widely recognized that not only wicked problems, but systemic issues in health, education, prisons, welfare and housing have not necessarily been tackled in a sufficiently holistic, and interconnected way. Still, do we know how these systems change, what elements are involved and – most importantly – are these changes really taking us to a better place?
Join us for an in-depth conversation with Stone Soup experts Bernardo García and Dr. Leonora Buckland who will share their practical experience analyzing and understanding systems change; and who will reflect together with Irene Salgado, Programme Manager at Porticus Iberia, on the past, present and future challenges involved. Systems change is an idea whose time has come. Are we ready for it?
Date and time: November 29th, 2pm CET
Support material:
Research paper, Systems change: how will we know it is working?
Participants:
Sophie Robin, Stone Soup Impact Director and co-founder
Sophie holds a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in international relations (France and Chile, respectively) and an MBA (UK). Sophie has 25+ years’ experience supporting the impact economy in Latin America and Europe. She was the Liaison Officer for CSOs at the FAO office for Latin America and the Caribbean and has led the NGDO Executive Platform in Portugal. She has worked with nearly 100 social entrepreneurs and social organizations, helping them evaluate and deepen their social impact. Her clients in Impact Measurement and Management include: Eleva Capital, ESADE / BBVA, BHFQ (BMW) Foundation, Microbank, Fundación Real Madrid, Seed Capital Bizkaia, Fundación EDP, Fundación Daniel & Nina Carasso, Porticus Foundation, amongst many others. She is a co-founder of Stone Soup and Esimpact (membership association linked to Social Value International and dedicated to promoting impact measurement and management in Spain). Sophie is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. She lives in Barcelona.
Irene Salgado, Programme Manager at Porticus Iberia
Irene Salgado is a programme manager in the area of child protection at Porticus, where she has been working for more than 10 years. Before working at Porticus, she was a consultant in management, accounting and legal issues for non-profit organisations for the Management and Social Protection Department of the Madrid City Council and responsible for the legal and accounting area of the Spanish Diabetes Society. She has studied Business Management and Administration and Law at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and has specialised in the management and administration of non-profit organisations.
Dr. Leonora Buckland, Stone Soup Principal Consultant
Principal consultant at Stone Soup and academic-practitioner at ESADE specialising in qualitative research, impact management and impact investment for charities, funders and social enterprises. She has recently led several large-scale research and consultancy projects often incorporating a systems change dimension for different clients, such as Carasso Foundation (Spain), SYSTEMIQ (UK), BMW Foundation (Germany) and Rothschild Foundation (UK) amongst others. Prior to becoming a consultant, she was Executive Director of a UK charitable foundation the Venture Partnership Foundation. She has a BA and a PhD from the University of Oxford.
Bernardo García, Stone Soup Principal Consultant
PhD in Economics and Business Administration and Master in Advanced Management from the University of Deusto (Bilbao-Spain), where he worked for 14 years as a teacher, researcher and director of the European Master in International Humanitarian Aid, publishing several articles and books on NGO management. Over the last 30 years he has developed a solid experience in the management of non-profit organisations. From 2008 to 2017, he was General Director of the Anesvad Foundation. For 9 years he worked as an international consultant for different programmes and initiatives of the United Nations, other international organisations, NGOs, research centres, and companies. Principal consultant at Stone Soup Consulting (B Corp), Social Value International accredited practitioner in measuring social impact, and Founding member and ex Vice-President of the Spanish Association for Social Impact Measurement, ESIMPACT.
