The Value of Slowing Down to Scale Up Impact with Helen Chambers

Be & Think in the House of Trust

In this episode of Be and Think in the House of Trust, I am listening to Helen Chambers, a serial social entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience founding a number of organisations from the award-winning Equality Network to Inspiring Scotland, pioneering venture philanthropy and capacity building organisations. She has overseen the investment of over £250m into responses to alleviate Scotland’s ‘wicked’ issues.

Helen talks to us about investing more time, and calmness to re-introduce common sense and a moral compass into interventions, keeping our visionary goal in mind, making scaling a reality, and preventing harming institutional and systems memory loss.

Helen reminded us about the importance of creating thinking spaces, considering the long-term impact of social interventions, and emphasizing capacity building for organizations.

With her expertise and mindful approach, Helen showed us that slowing down and giving thought to the way we approach social change and investment is essential for creating meaningful, lasting impact.

Highlights of this episode

[5:00] Some evidence-based models for change made us lose our moral compass

[9:50] People at the margins are tired of being at the end of social

intervention

[11:15] “I wish they’d stop giving us money”

[13:35] Don't compare your insides to other people's outsides.

[18:43] We absolutely compound importance and "busy-ness".

[24:37] How to undertake another type of thinking

Useful Links

Chambers Consulting https://chambersconsulting.org/

Inspiring Scotland https://www.inspiringscotland.org.uk/

Helen on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenchambersconsulting/

Connect with Servane:

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Website: https://servanemouazan.co.uk

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