The Ashoka Visionary Program is a part-time executive program for decision makers in the private and the public sector dealing with social innovations as well as social entrepreneurs. The program enables participants to gain the skills needed to master both entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial challenges and to generate social impact.

The program at one glance:

• Part-time-program taking place over 9 months (20 October – 24 June) in Vienna, with modules on 15 days in total (Friday-Saturday), access to course materials + additional resources from the Ashoka community  
• Transformational learning journey in a group of 30 leaders of change coming from companies, the public sector, civil society and philanthropy  
• Comprehensive learning package on social entrepreneurship – with sessions on key topics from system change to leadership in the 21. century and the art of storytelling with Ashoka Fellows, further social entrepreneurs and experts  
• The #socialimpact-choice between supporting a social entrepreneur or developing an own social entrepreneurial initiative, to immediately put your learnings into practice; additionally, group work, case studies, peer reviews, networking, coaching & mentoring i.a.  
• Ashoka alumni-network as a supportive community of peers with new friendships and potential partnerships in the world of social entrepreneurship 

All details regarding feeds, module dates and more can be found on the website, where you can also directly apply to join the program. This year, we are offering stipends dedicated to climate pioneers as well as leaders in the humanitarian and democracy-building field! The application is open till 30 June, first come first serve. The program also takes place in two other regions, East Africa and the Mediterranean.

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