After the Acumen Fund Fellowship I feel myself extremely confident and interactive and has used both very productively during the pas two post fellowship months. Let me admit that I could hardly exhibit both these attributes during the fellowship year and before but now find them proving best assets for me- I am so much thankful to AF for this..... 

I yesterday resigned from a well paid job with a UK based Charity which at the outset has very ambitious goals about leadership development and portray 'Dignity, Equality and Justice' as their core values. I joined them as I shared both their goal and their values, especially after the year spent at Acumen Fund. But during my stay at BHR I found the organization going totally in an opposite direction. I have been successful in my role, as I brought the first ever institutional partnership to the organization and so many others are in pipeline. But what I find difficult to compromise on are the core values of Respect and Dignity. I am not sure if my reaction was well thought, informed and right but I feel satisfied being out of the suffocation and dishonest environment. 

My time with the organization taught me some very good lesson, that how blurry vision leads to blurry, mission, mandate and values leads to blurry results and relationships. I found adherence to and demonstration of values as implicit to lead an organization. I realized it of paramount importance to believe in what we do and do what we believe in ...It has reinforced my belief on systems, procedures and accountability as key ingredients for efficiency and productively.