6Multilingual Leadership
The leadership task ahead…is daunting but exciting. That is why impact investing is becoming the life's work of so many experienced and emerging leaders.
—Katherine Fulton and Carolien De Bruin, Monitor Institute
Multilingual Leadership, the ability to “speak” and operate across market sectors and silos, reveals itself in a variety of ways:
- At MicroVest, it is in the singular commitment to investing with a commercial approach to microfinance, built on distinctly social sector origins and governance structures. As discussed earlier, an attentiveness to social outcomes is the “ballast” in MicroVest's ship, even as management is provided with the freedom and incentives to apply the utmost financial discipline (i.e., ...
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