Once again, the Ashoka Visionary Program in Central and Eastern Europe has opened its application for the next edition - starting on 19 October '23 in Vienna!? The executive leadership program offers leaders of change from all sectors a comprehensive 9-month learning journey that covers the life cycle of a social entreprise. Its 7 modules contain all the necessary ingredients: social entrepreneurship & innovation ➜ impact & social business modeling ➜ funding & scaling ➜ wellbeing & new leadership ➜ system change ➜ partnerships & co-creation and finally ➜ storytelling & marketing. In short, it teaches changemaking skills in an entrepreneurial, immersive way and creates a space for changemakers to co-create.

With Ashoka Fellows and academic experts, practical know-how and personal stories. Based on Ashoka's 40+ years of experience in facilitating systems-changing impact. For only 30 selected participants: Ashoka Fellows, current and future social entrepreneurs, highly motivated professionals from different sectors (corporate world, public sector, civil society/NGOs, foundations, and impact founders). The selected Ashoka Fellows join the program for a special reduced fee of 1000€.

To introduce the program and give potential participants a better feeling for it, the organising team has set up info calls. This the first one of them, happy to see you there. Special price only till end of April.

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Key facts about the program and its opportunities: 

• Hands-on, interactive learnings on everything from social innovation, system change, new leadership to the art of storytelling from the whole spectrum of Ashoka's global expertise; space for reflection on your changemaker journey

• The opportunity to meet some of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs, pioneers of social innovation and change, representatives of big foundations and business leaders as expert speakers

• For and with executives and leaders of change from all sectors accelerating social impact initiatives in their environment (both entre- and intrapreneurs)

• Part-time-program of 9 months, with 7 modules of 2 days each (Friday – Saturday), work with an Ashoka Fellow or other leading social entrepreneur on a challenging assignment OR develop and design your own social entrepreneurship initiative

• EUR 10,000 excl. VAT, Early Bird until April 30, 2023 (save 1.000 EUR)

Prototyped and operated out of the Ashoka Austria office, the Visionary Program is offered in three regions: Central and Eastern Europe, East Africa, the Mediterranean and soon more.