Stop Underselling Your Work. Tell Your Impact Story.

Being humble about our good work is honourable — but staying too silent has a cost. When practitioners don't tell their best impact stories, unhelpful cultural orthodoxies persist: the myth of the self-sustaining nonprofit, the bias that business knows best, the prioritisation of for-profit values in non-profits

In this episode, Shiao-Yin Kuik shows why we need more effective impact storytelling from the ground — and introduces the R.E.A.L. framework: four principles for telling impact stories that help practitioners and funders stay human, honest and humble about doing complex change work.

Shiao-Yin Kuik

Executive Director of Common Ground specialising in culture change, leadership development, and social impact strategy for mission-driven organisations. Her work helps leaders bridge the gap between what they value and how they actually work.

Currently in Year 7 of a 9-year government-commissioned civic engagement project, her consulting draws on two decades building, closing, and rebuilding organisations with integrity.

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