NGO leader wellbeing check in
To the Leader Who’s Running on Empty
A personal note from Peter Magara, Founder & Director, Refuse to Fail before you take the assessment
Dear friend,
If you’ve landed on this page, you’re probably somewhere between tired and exhausted holding a team together, carrying everyone else’s strategy while quietly forgetting who carries yours. Maybe you already know the answer. You just need a mirror.
My name is Peter Magara. For over fifteen years I’ve worked alongside NGO leaders and civil society teams across Uganda, Kenya, and beyond. I built Refuse to Fail because I was one of those people too very good at measuring everyone else’s impact, not good at noticing my own. That’s what led me to train as a Solution Focused and Integral Coach, and to found the Associate Rising Leaders Center.
Here’s what I’ve learned: the people who give the most are often the worst-resourced for their own renewal. The exhaustion you feel is not failure it’s information. The burn-out assessment on this site is the diagnostic I wish someone had handed me at year eight. Take it honestly. And if you’d like company on whatever it surfaces, I’d be honoured to walk that road with you.
Warmly, Peter Magara Founder & Director, Refuse to Fail | Integral Coach· Associate Rising Leaders Center