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21 March · Session 1: Problem Solving
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28 March · Session 2: Stakeholder Management
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29 March · Session 3: Impact Analysis
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4 April · Session 4: Strategy Deck Design
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5 April · Session 5: Leadership in Impact
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Rhythm Behl
Policy-to-Execution Leader · Social Impact Consultant · Founder
$1B+
Public programs designed & executed
9+ yrs
Across govt, consulting & scale-ups
3
States — Punjab, Haryana, J&K
10X
Firm growth led as a consulting leader
Led India's first state-wide air quality reform — a $438M World Bank-supported program. Worked out of Chief Secretary offices. Built firms from the ground up. Now she's teaching what she knows.
Who This Is For
Built for people
doing the work.
If you're navigating the impact space — inside government, consulting, NGOs, or social enterprise — this series was designed around the specific gaps that hold professionals back.
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Early-Career Impact Professionals
2–6 years in NGOs, CSOs, development consulting, or government advisory roles. You're doing good work but want structured frameworks to do it better.
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Career Switchers into Impact
Coming from corporate, MBA, or government and moving into the social impact space. You want practical consulting skills for this specific context — not generic advice.
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Social Entrepreneurs & Founders
Building early-stage ventures in the impact space. You need to communicate to funders, navigate government, and measure what you're creating.
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Program & Project Managers
Managing multi-stakeholder implementations. You want tools to manage complexity, communicate upward, and prove impact — not just output.
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Government Interface Professionals
Working at the government-NGO-donor interface. You've felt the friction of systems that don't move the way you expect and want to understand why.
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Students & Recent Graduates
From public policy, development studies, social work, or management programs — you want to enter the impact sector with practical skills, not just degrees.
THE CURRICULUM
Five sessions.
Five core skills.
Each session solves a specific professional pain point. You can join individual sessions or take all five as a complete toolkit.
SESSION 01
21 March
11 AM – 2 PM
Problem Solving
A structured approach to breaking down complex challenges — from vague briefs to clear, validated problem statements. Learn issue trees, MECE structuring, root cause analysis, and how to test solutions against real stakeholder needs before committing resources.
Issue tree frameworks
MECE structuring
Root cause analysis
Solution validation
Reframing a live brief
SESSION 02
28 March
11 AM - 2 PM
Stakeholder Management
Beyond the stakeholder matrix. Learn the 5 Whys of stakeholder behaviour, how to build trust-based relationships under pressure, manage conflicting expectations across government, donors, and communities — and keep delivery on track while relationships hold.
5 Whys framework
Influence mapping
Expectation management
Trust-building tactics
Live stakeholder map
SESSION 03
29 March
11 AM – 2 PM
Impact Analysis
Move beyond counting outputs. Learn to gather and triangulate qualitative and quantitative data, design feedback loops into your programs, and generate insights that actually change what you do next — not just what you report. Build a learning-oriented approach to evaluation.
Feedback collection methods
Data triangulation
Qualitative analysis
Feedback loop design
Iterative evaluation
SESSION 04
4 April
11 AM – 2 PM
Strategy Deck Design
Build decks that move decisions, not decks that educate. Learn to craft a narrative from context to recommendation, design for a specific decision-maker's mindset, and close with a clear call to action. Every slide earns its place. Bring something you're working on — it will change.
Narrative architecture
Audience-first design
Situation-Complication-Resolution
Slide economy
Peer deck review
SESSION 05
5 April
11 AM – 2 PM
Leadership in Impact
Navigate the impact ecosystem with intention. Explore pathways across nonprofits, philanthropy, social enterprise, policy, and consulting. Understand what leadership actually looks like in this space — building credibility through problem-solving, working across difference, and aligning your skills with the sector's real needs.
Career pathway mapping
Niche identification
Credibility building
Impact sector navigation
Personal leadership lens
Why This Matters Now
The skills gap in
impact consulting
is real.
India's social sector is scaling fast. The professionals leading that scale are often doing it without the consulting infrastructure that corporate sectors take for granted.
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No India-specific curriculum exists
Most consulting training is built for corporate contexts. The government interface, donor relationship dynamics, and community accountability that define impact work are absent from standard curricula.
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Practitioners learn by expensive trial and error
The frameworks Rhythm is teaching took nearly a decade of billion-dollar program implementation to develop. This series compresses that learning into 5 focused sessions.
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Impact measurement is non-negotiable now
Funders — multilateral, philanthropic, and CSR — are demanding defensible evidence chains. Professionals who can't demonstrate impact lose programs and funding.
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Sector talent is increasingly competitive
As impact careers grow in prestige, the bar for structured thinking, stakeholder navigation, and strategic communication is rising fast. These are the skills that differentiate.
What You Take Away
Clear outcomes.
From day one.
Every session is designed around a tangible deliverable — something you build during the session and use the following week.
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01 / PROBLEM SOLVING
A reframed problem statement
A structured breakdown of a live challenge from your own work — root causes mapped, scope defined, solution hypotheses generated.
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02 / STAKEHOLDER MGMT
A reframed problem statement
A structured breakdown of a live challenge from your own work — root causes mapped, scope defined, solution hypotheses generated.
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03 / IMPACT ANALYSIS
A reframed problem statement
A structured breakdown of a live challenge from your own work — root causes mapped, scope defined, solution hypotheses generated.
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04 / STRATEGY DECKS
A reframed problem statement
Bring your current deck or proposal. Leave with the first 5 slides restructured using the practitioner narrative framework — reviewed by peers.
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05 / LEADERSHIP
A reframed problem statement
A clear-eyed view of where you want to go in the sector, what niche suits your skills and values, and concrete next steps to get there.
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ALL 5 SESSIONS
Certificate of Completion
Participants who complete the full series receive a certificate — a credibility signal you can display on LinkedIn and in professional profiles.
"I will always be found thinking, problem solving, building solutions in the shadows — very like the Batman."
Rhythm Behl
Policy-to-Execution Leader · Social Impact Consultant · Founder-in-Progress
Rhythm has spent 9+ years designing and executing public programs worth over a billion dollars — across Punjab, Haryana, and Jammu & Kashmir. She's been a researcher, strategist, operator, people leader, and product thinker — often all at once. She brings the same rigour to teaching that she brings to building.
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Led the end-to-end design and approval of India's first state-wide air quality reform — the Haryana Clean Air Project, a $438M World Bank-supported program.
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Supported design of ARJUN — Haryana's dedicated government Special Purpose Vehicle for all externally aided projects.
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Led multi-disciplinary teams working directly with Chief Secretary offices to deliver $1B+ public programs across three states.
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Helped scale GDi Partners 10X — expanding into institution design and AI-for-employment while strengthening internal L&D and CEO's office.
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A strong advocate for women building agency, confidence, and leadership in the impact sector — personally and professionally.
$1B+
Public programs designed & executed
9+ yrs
Across govt, consulting & scale-ups
3
States — Punjab, Haryana, J&K
10X
Firm growth led as a consulting leader
Rhythm is a doer, a policy-to-execution leader, who has worn multiple hats across research, strategy, operations, people, product, and technology — shaping ideas into scalable solutions at the systems level.
Enrolment & Pricing
Join the series
your way.
Attend one session that solves your immediate problem, or invest in the full toolkit. Either way, certification is included.
🤝 Group discount available for 3 or more participants from the same organisation or cohort. Write to us with your details and we'll send you a custom quote.