Orchestrate for Impact
Orchestrate for Impact
Podcast Description
Preparing organisations today to shape a better tomorrow
Organisations have an outsized influence on our world. Yet most aren’t designed to adapt to the challenges of our time. Siloed systems, outdated ways of working and short-term thinking continue to hold them back from contributing effectively and positively to the future we need.
These conversations aim to build a shared understanding that supports orchestrators in navigating the complex realities of organisational transformation and change.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes of care in organizations, social procurement, governance structures, data visualization, and systemic design, with episodes that explore strategic choices around care with Dr. Lena Belin and the transformative potential of social procurement with Diem Huynh, among others.
Preparing organisations today to shape a better tomorrow
Organisations have an outsized influence on our world. Yet most aren’t designed to adapt to the challenges of our time. Siloed systems, outdated ways of working and short-term thinking continue to hold them back from contributing effectively and positively to the future we need.
These conversations aim to build a shared understanding that supports orchestrators in navigating the complex realities of organisational transformation and change.
How do we design care back into our organisations, deliberately, structurally, and strategically?
In this episode, Dr Lena Belin joins Janna to explore care not as sentiment, but as a strategic asset. Drawing from her background in anthropology, strategic design, and systems thinking, Lena shares a compelling framework for care as infrastructure, a set of relational, temporal, boundary-setting and integrative dimensions that shape how organisations operate, relate, and adapt.
Together they unpack:
- Why care is a strategic choice, not just a personal value
- How care, when embedded, increases an organisation’s ability to absorb stress, reduce hidden risks, and operate more sustainably
- The cost of designing care out, from burnout to brand erosion to system failure
- What tangible signs of care (or the lack of it) look like across services, structures and everyday interactions
- Why saying you care isn’t enough, and what it takes to bring care into policy, practice, and organisational design
- The role of leadership humility and shared responsibility in making care real
For organisations looking to orchestrate for impact, care is more than a nice-to-have. It’s a generative force, one that underpins trust, coherence, resilience, and long-term contribution. If we want systems that support people and communities, we must design care in from the start.
00:00 Introduction to Orchestrate For Impact00:38 Lena's Background and Perspective on Care03:15 The Concept of Care in Organisations05:26 Strategic Choices and Organisational Ethos09:39 Infrastructure of Care: Key Dimensions12:39 Practical Applications and Benefits of Care17:22 Challenges and Real-World Examples35:14 Leadership and Personal Responsibility42:58 Final Thoughts and Reflections
Links & Resources
- Dr Lena Belin https://www.lenabelin.com/
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lenabelin/
- Substack lenabelin.substack.com
- Coming soon – The Shift to Care, a podcast with Dr Lena Belin
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- Website: www.orchestrateforimpact.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/orchestrate-for-impact
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@OrchestrateforImpact/podcasts
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/37BnWvatGQyU5AkRY7ibXU?si=G2f_htBsRi6LvDzjPzhcAw
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/orchestrate-for-impact/id1816620342
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Music
Intro and outro music by Eli DeVylder “43 (fin)” – used with permission
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