Becky Margiotta is the cofounder of the Billions Institute and host of the podcast Unleashing Social Change. She has trained thousands of people the world over on how to design and lead large-scale social change.
Margiotta directed the 100,000 Homes Campaign for Community Solutions, which mobilized 186 cities to permanently house more than one hundred thousand people who had previously been living on their streets. Her work has been profiled on 60 Minutes, NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and the Harvard Business Review. A graduate of West Point, she also served for nine years as an officer in the US Army, both in Special Operations and Special Mission Units. She earned a master's degree in organizational change management from The New School University and has received a White House Champion of Change award, the Schwab Foundation's Social Entrepreneur of the Year award, and the National Conference on Citizenship's HOOAH award. She lives in Claremont, California, with her wife and their two kids.
2022 INDIES Winner
Gold, Career (Adult Nonfiction)
The world is on fire and in desperate need of volunteer firefighters.If you've ever wondered if you have a purpose, if there's a place in the world in need of your unique genius, the answer is yes. And the right time to step into your purpose and explore the path of your potential is now. But you don't have to do this work alone-and you shouldn't do it without taking care of yourself first. Burnout rates in the helping professions are off the charts, but we won't make progress "out there" until we take full ownership of whatever we're feeling "in here."
Becky Margiotta's Impact with Integrity: Repair the World Without Breaking Yourself is a call to action, but also an invitation to reclaim your agency and mobilize your creativity in order to enact meaningful, efficient, and effective social change. With authenticity, grit, and grace, Margiotta lays out a proven step-by-step framework for doing the inner work that is necessary for advancing social change. Examining yourself is key to supercharging your power to make the world a better place. In this essential guide, she weaves joy and well-being into the work of sustainable and transformational leadership.
Not just for nonprofit leaders, social workers, activists, educators, and health professionals, Impact with Integrity is for all of us inspired to do good and make effective change in the world.
