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> Posted by Deborah Drake, Vice President and Program Manager, Investing in Inclusive Finance, CFI

The Investing in Inclusive Finance program at the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion explores the intersection of investment and financial inclusion. Across areas including risk, governance, stakeholder alignment, and fund management, this blog series will highlight what’s being done to help the industry better utilize private capital to develop commercially sustainable financial institutions.

As the head of the CFI’s Investing in Inclusive Finance program area, I spend a lot of my time focusing on how to create behavioral change at the board level – with the goal of improving the governance of microfinance institutions. I recently attended a University of Rochester Faculty Perspective Webinar given by Edward Deci called “Self-Determined: What Motivates You?” with the professional objective of better understanding what motivates board members and how that impacts behavioral change. Yet, throughout the webinar, I found myself drawing many parallels to my other job: mother to three sons.

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