🏗️Building Castles 🏰with No Foundation🕳️: A Strategist’s Journey Inside a Global Startup
Hello Lovelies, I walked into the opportunity with wide eyes and a ready spirit. A startup claim to have ambitions to shift systems and integrate equity. On paper, it was everything I’d been preparing for—fusing my background in chasing disasters, public-private partnerships, and sustainable development. My role? To build the engine while the car was already speeding down the highway. So I thought!🥴 And I jumped right in. I showed up with strategy decks, grant roadmaps, government engagement playbooks, brand positioning language, development targets, and cross-continental funding relationships. Within weeks, I produced more than most teams deliver in six months: grant applications submitted, strategic partnerships initiated, core messages clarified, and team members mobilized. The momentum was real. But then came the reality. Behind the ambition was something much more fragile: leaders who were enamored by titles, unready for discipline, and allergic to accountability. The vision was ...