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688. Who Gets to Design Change? Power, Agency & Creating Sustainable Orgs - Chidi Asoluka, NewComm

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A man in a suit showed up, asked one question, and paid my entire Georgetown tuition—no strings attached.
The question lands plainly: what question needs solving, and who gets to decide? Chidi starts with founder certainty, then backs into a humbler job: understanding the young people Newcom hopes to reach. That adjustment has teeth. He talks about letting go of program ideas he loves after Bianca, now an intern, helps him spot what may not answer the question at all. The hosts sit with the sting of that. Admiration for Chidi becomes a useful, very human conversation about power, agency, and organizations that stop treating founder vision as proof of impact.

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A grounded reminder that good change starts by asking who it is really for.

Chidi Asoluka turns nonprofit leadership into a plain but searching set of questions: what problem is being solved, who the work is for, and whether the organization is built around the people it hopes to serve.

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When your strategy needs a reality check from the people you serve.

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