You're invited — FREE Financial Reality Workshop: Money, Love and Power (July 15)
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Mahrukh Hasan (Maya)
Jul 8, 2026, 2:32:38 PM (9 days ago) Jul 8
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Hi fellow adaptive practitioners,
You've been told to charge your worth.
In podcasts. In LinkedIn posts. From well-meaning mentors. Know your value. Ask for more. You deserve it.
And you do.
But here's what they never say: worth and rate are not the same thing. Telling a woman of color leader to just "ask for more" — without naming the inherited stories, the visibility gap, and the real economics of influence — isn't strategy. It's noise.
Here's the irony: we spend our days pushing donors to ditch rigid logframes, trust local context, and adapt as they go. We tell institutions their old models of control don't work anymore. Then the question turns to our own rate or salary, and suddenly we default to the same rigid, take-what's-offered thinking we'd never accept in a program design.
Maybe you're staff angling for a raise you've earned but haven't asked for. Maybe you're job hunting and dreading the salary conversation. Maybe you're a consultant who advises on adaptive management but hasn't adapted your own rate in two years. Maybe you're a director at an intermediary org who can pitch flexible, unrestricted funding to donors but goes quiet negotiating your own comp. Same underlying question: how do you talk about money when the system was never built to make that easy — even when your job is to make development itself less rigid?
That's exactly where we're starting on July 15.
✅ The Worth ≠ Rate framework — why market position matters as much as self-worth, and what to do about the gap
✅ Your influence-to-income assessment — an honest read on where you are
✅ A concrete financial decision — real constraints, real options, one next step
✅ A completed workbook — yours to keep working with after the session
I hope you'll join me.
Warmly,
Maya
You've been told to charge your worth.
In podcasts. In LinkedIn posts. From well-meaning mentors. Know your value. Ask for more. You deserve it.
And you do.
But here's what they never say: worth and rate are not the same thing. Telling a woman of color leader to just "ask for more" — without naming the inherited stories, the visibility gap, and the real economics of influence — isn't strategy. It's noise.
Here's the irony: we spend our days pushing donors to ditch rigid logframes, trust local context, and adapt as they go. We tell institutions their old models of control don't work anymore. Then the question turns to our own rate or salary, and suddenly we default to the same rigid, take-what's-offered thinking we'd never accept in a program design.
Maybe you're staff angling for a raise you've earned but haven't asked for. Maybe you're job hunting and dreading the salary conversation. Maybe you're a consultant who advises on adaptive management but hasn't adapted your own rate in two years. Maybe you're a director at an intermediary org who can pitch flexible, unrestricted funding to donors but goes quiet negotiating your own comp. Same underlying question: how do you talk about money when the system was never built to make that easy — even when your job is to make development itself less rigid?
That's exactly where we're starting on July 15.
Money, Love, and Power: A Financial Reality Workshop is a FREE 90-minute session to get honest about your relationship with money — and what it will actually take to change the numbers, whatever "the numbers" mean in your specific seat.
Register here — spots limited 🎟️
✅ Your money story — named, examined, and reclaimed on your own terms✅ The Worth ≠ Rate framework — why market position matters as much as self-worth, and what to do about the gap
✅ Your influence-to-income assessment — an honest read on where you are
✅ A concrete financial decision — real constraints, real options, one next step
✅ A completed workbook — yours to keep working with after the session
Details:
📅 Wednesday, July 15 · 90 min · Zoom
💸 Free & open to all · Workbook sent in advance · Recording available 7 days
Register here — spots limited 🎟️
Your numbers aren't fixed. But first, you deserve the real conversation about how they got this way.I hope you'll join me.
Warmly,
Maya
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