Events

Headwind Partners Co-Founder Julie Uwimana is heading to Johannesburg this October for the B Lab Africa Summit 2025. This year’s theme, Climate Modalities, ESG Impact Investment and Inclusive Growth: Africa’s Readiness to Take Action, aligns closely with our work supporting purpose-driven organizations across the continent.

We are looking forward to connecting with leaders shaping sustainable business and impact investment, exploring bold strategies for inclusive growth, and exchanging ideas on how to turn climate ambition into meaningful action. If you will be there, let’s connect to explore collaboration and collective impact.

Headwind Partners Co-Founder Julie Uwimana will join leaders from around the world at Opportunity Collaboration 2025, a unique global gathering designed to spark partnerships and advance solutions to poverty and injustice.

Julie will share how Headwind Partners walks alongside organizations through initiatives like our Catalyst Clinics, where teams get focused strategy, change, and learning support designed to meet them where they are. She’ll also explore other ways we partner with social-impact organizations to build capacity, spark momentum, and create lasting impact.

Headwind Partners Principal Todd M. Andersson will join evaluation leaders from around the world in November at the American Evaluation Association’s Evaluation 2025 conference in Kansas City, Missouri. 

Todd, alongside colleagues L. Jerome Gallagher and MiKell Brough-Stevenson, will lead an interactive workshop on Project Monitoring and Evaluation Planning Using a Theory of Change: A Practical, Step-by-Step Guide. The session will walk participants through building effective M&E systems grounded in a theory of change, offering practical tools for planning, measuring, and learning across diverse sectors and regions.

Headwind Partners Co-Founder Jennifer Gauck led a Brain Boost Lunch & Learn, hosted by the Cowork Frederick Foundation. Jen shared how a theory of change can be a powerful roadmap — connecting actions to results, clarifying assumptions, and helping individuals and organizations chart their path to success.

The session blended a 30-minute talk with an engaging, facilitated discussion, creating space for participants to learn not just from the speaker but also from one another. True to the Brain Boost spirit, it was part workshop, part mastermind group, designed to spark inclusive conversation and share knowledge across Frederick’s small business community. This brief slide deck highlights the key elements of how a theory of change is useful when navigating a change process to achieve a social purpose.