Blair Glencorse (Accountability Lab) - Making honest politicians famous, rapping your annual strategy, and leading a global organisation focussed on anti-corruption

Blair Glencorse is the Founder and Executive Director of Accountability Lab, a global NGO focussing on empowering citizens to make changes they know are necessary in their communities. A global expert in citizen engagement and anti-corruption, Blair has a unique approach to improving governance and accountability across the world. Whether it's 'naming and faming' honest and trustworthy government officials through X Factor style 'Integrity Icon', or publishing the annual strategy in a rap song. He discusses:'Positive deviance' - what it is and why it's been important to him since childhoodThe problem with the way we set up incentives in our societyThe 'Integrity Icon' project and how it made honest government officials famous - starting in NepalHis experience at the World Bank and how the idea for Accountability Lab came from his work with people in NepalHow most frontline issues, be it lack of education or clean water, stem from a lack of accountability in leadershipThe mission of Accountability Lab today and his roleWhy they chose to publish their strategy in hip-hop form (listen to a clip!) and the problem with most corporate strategy documentsTheir engagement with musicians, artists and technologists to amplify their ideas through cultureHow accountability will be good for business in the futureHis approach to 'radical transparency'The balance between collaboration and competition across multiple sectors, especially when it comes to anti-corruption and climate issuesThe emergence of 'Chief Integrity Officers' and the importance of balancing ethics with compliance to avoid corporate scandalsHis advice for a new Chief Integrity Officer and how to embed ethics throughout a cultureThe organisations whose example we should try and followA success story from 'Integrity Icon', increasing female representation in regional government in Pakistan His approach to leadership as a collective effort within a flat structureDefining organisational values and how to embed values-led decision makingBlair on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blairglencorse/Accountability Lab: https://accountabilitylab.org/Accountability Lab's annual strategy hip-hop track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnjXPevXlu4Rob on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-warren/Want to appear? Email [email protected]: ⁠standingongiants.com⁠