Deepening your capacity to drive change

MPA Global Advisors is a leadership development and systems change agency.

We partner with individuals, teams and impact funds to make sense of complexity and build their capacity to drive change.

Through individual coaching, we help you create the enabling conditions for your leadership and talent to flourish in your life, or within your organisation. Through our expert design and facilitation of systems-change initiatives, we partner with you to help solve some of the world’s most complex challenges.

“Companies have a tremendous opportunity. And that is to become sacred grounds for the transformation of human beings. This is not a cause which is at odds with monetary gain. In fact, a company’s devotion to transforming its executives and employees as human beings parallels its ability to become successful in all ways.”

— Kapil Gupta, Direct Truth

Partnering in complexity to build thriving organisations

Talent is an infinite resource, but managing and mobilising it is one of the most complex challenges organisations face. We partner with clients to make sense of their complexity and help build organisations that thrive. Our expertise lies in our ability to draw on a variety of frameworks and concepts, including adaptive leadership, human-centred design, systems change theory and integral development theory; to help you drive your version of change.

Whatever challenge we are partnering with you to tackle, we look at it through these three lenses:

Individual

In order to drive change in our lives, our organisations and the wider systems we inhabit, we must first expand our own capacity. We bring awareness, mindsets and behaviour change approaches to your individual journey to enable lasting change.

Organisation

Conventional forms of leadership focus on status and knowledge. Adaptive leadership emphasises what individuals can do, our impact on others and how organisations create the cultural conditions to make leadership more democratic and accessible.

System

In the face of the complexity of human systems, the need to have all the answers will fail us. What is needed instead is the capacity to understand, diagnose, reinterpret and mobilise around new solutions to drive change at a systems level.

How we work

LEADERSHIP COACHING

Transformation at an individual level

Targeted one-on one coaching programs and team training approaches that cultivate capable, adaptive, purpose-driven leadership.

WORKSHOPS & PROGRAM DESIGN

Activating leadership and talent within organisations

Bespoke leadership programs and immersive learning experiences to help your team become stewards of your culture and problem-solve increasingly complex challenges together.

SYSTEMS CHANGE CONSULTING

Facilitating partnership and leadership initiatives

Development and facilitation of impactful workshops and initiatives that strengthen trust - often across multi-stakeholder partnerships - and enable effective leadership in the face of systemic complexity.

We support leaders and organisations across a range of sectors and geographies

Our impact and experience range from working with startups to mature teams across the US, UK, India, Pakistan, East and West Africa, and Latin America; in high-impact sectors including off-grid energy, agriculture, gender and diversity, education, and public health.

– SAYO AYODELE (DIRECTOR) AND JAYMA PAU (PARTNER), LEADER’S QUEST

“We recently revamped our personal development review process. This required a deep dive into philosophy, vision, documentation and deep engagement with a range of stakeholders within the organisation. Molly was instrumental to this process – her questions, suggestions and insights were an invaluable part of that process. We’ve ended up with a process that is much more in line with our organisation’s values and that is in no small part due to Molly’s help.”

– SAMIR IBRAHIM, CEO & CO-FOUNDER SUNCULTURE

The growth I have been able to achieve in the last twelve months would not have been possible without Molly’s help. Her ability to help me frame my thought process was an invaluable factor contributing to my development.

People

Molly alexander

Deeply committed to democratising leadership in emerging markets, Molly is an highly intuitive ICF accredited Integral Development Coach®, leadership facilitator and L&D consultant with proven strength for generating alignment of purpose and motivation in order to tackle some of the world’s most complex challenges.

Prior to founding MPA Global Advisors, Molly spent 14 years’ at Acumen, a pioneering Impact Investment Fund, where she held a number of roles across global business development, community building and engagement, office of the CEO, strategic communications, business operations, talent development and finally; co-developing the post-investment talent and leadership advisory to provide targeted support in these areas to Acumen’s $120M portfolio of growing social enterprises. She brings a unique understanding of the complexity, challenges, core strengths, and key opportunities that arise in these ambiguous and impact-driven organisational contexts.

Molly was born in the UK where she now lives with her partner Jake, grew up in Australia where her father and siblings still live, spent a lot of time in NYC where her mom is based and is most comfortable in sandals working directly with change makers committed to a more just and thriving world.

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Mark has built a career understanding the complex systems that impede and catalyze change.

Mark has made investments with Light Ventures, a seed fund affiliated with Gray Ghost Ventures; the First Light Accelerator, a joint venture with the Shell Foundation; Village Capital; the Oxford Seed Fund; the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship; and UnLtd USA (now Techstars Impact). Originally from Shreveport, Louisiana, Mark graduated from Vanderbilt University with degrees in International Political Economy and Religious Studies and from Oxford’s Saïd Business School with an MBA.

Mark has taught at Oxford University, where he redesigned the core MBA entrepreneurship course; and at UT-Austin’s RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service, where he designed and taught a course on social entrepreneurship. In the fall of 2016, Mark cofounded Assemble, a coaching and consulting company. He is also a Harrington Fellow and PhD student in public policy at UT-Austin, studying complex systems, network analysis and public policy decision-making.