July 31, 2026

Walk & Talk: Camila Pereira and Kevin Crouch Discuss How to Build an Education Field That Nurtures “Rested Leadership”

For Bridgespan’s Walk & Talk audio series, we pair a Bridgespanner and a mission-driven leader for an intimate conversation on the move. You’ll hear big ideas for driving systems change and small ideas for how to build better organizations. You’ll also hear surprising moments of personal connection amid the sounds outside of office walls.  

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For this walk, we paired Camila Pereira and Kevin Crouch. Pereira is the CEO of Global School Leaders, which improves educational outcomes across the Global South by strengthening the knowledge and skills of school leaders. Crouch is a senior manager at The Bridgespan Group, where he drives research, thought leadership, and peer learning to help unlock philanthropic funding for systems change leaders.

While attending the Skoll World Forum, they discussed distributed leadership and what it takes to build an education field that nurtures "rested leadership."

"What is the education that you envision where people flourish?" Pereira asks. "This mindset needs some basic conditions fulfilled. I'm thinking about the need to be rested, at some level. You can't be totally drained and exhausted and lead from that place. Part of the systemic change that we need is creating more of these conditions for more people."  


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