Deadline: 3-Mar-22
Applications are now open for the Inclusive Economy Leadership Program, a 10-week leadership accelerator designed to equip you with the character and competence to address the complex challenges of poverty and economic inequality.
During these 10-weeks, you will take part in weekly virtual learning labs, virtual group discussions and work on individual assignments.
Building a more inclusive economy that serves the poor is risky work. It means disappointing those who benefit from the status quo, experimenting in areas most people ignore and failing more often than you succeed. Naturally, not everyone chooses to do this work.
This program facilitates deep introspection, cohort building, and an exploration of leadership concepts that are especially useful for those trying to tackle the complex problems of poverty and inequality.
Benefits
The Leadership Accelerator Expereience:
- Runs over 10 weeks, fully virtual
- Attend weekly virtual Learning Labs
- Engage in weekly consultations with peers
- Study curated readings that cultivate a richer understanding of your social change work
- Learn frameworks for leading social change and for holding values in tension
- Complete weekly assignments to practice your new learnings
What will you learn?
Their core curriculum is made up of three key components:
- Adaptive Leadership: Based on the work of Ron Heifitz, Adaptive Leadership is a practical leadership framework that helps organizations and individuals adapt and thrive in challenging environments. The content supports your ability, both individually and collectively, to catalyze and embrace the gradual and meaningful process of creating change.
- Managing Polarities: Developed by Barry Johnson, Polarity Management empowers you to embrace competing goals and navigate the tensions between them, a crucial skill in an increasingly interconnected world.
- Good Society Readings: The Good Society Readings explore the meaning of a just society and the moral and historical foundation of social change through a series of curated readings by thinkers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Nelson Mandela. You’ll reflect on core human values, seek common ground, and cultivate a richer understanding of your social change work by situating it in a broader historical context.
Eligibility Criteria
- Participants come from all walks of life. They are building radical new solutions that ensure economic prosperity is shared by all. Solutions range across new business models that serve the poor, corporate initiatives to disrupt traditional industries, innovative public sector programs and nonprofit livelihood solutions for the poor.
- Collectively, participants are creating a more inclusive economy in Southeast Asia.
- Participants are typically on one of the following paths:
- Social Entrepreneur. Scaling innovative business models that use market-based solutions to tackle poverty and inequality
- Public Sector Leader. Leveraging the government machinery to create a more inclusive economy
- Nonprofit Leader. Building solutions to ensure those most in need are equitably included in the economy
- Corporate Intrapreneur. Driving initiatives within large corporations to create inclusive and sustainable corporations
- To be eligible for this program, you should:
- Currently live in one of the following SEA countries: Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Timor-Leste or Brunei
- Demonstrate a long term commitment to tackling issues related to poverty and economic inequality including more than 4 years of work
- experience in the sector
- Be in a position of leadership where you work, meaning you have the capacity to influence change
- Demonstrate self-awareness and the ability to challenge yourself to grow as a leader
- Live in a place with telephone and internet coverage so that you can actively participate in an online learning environment
- Have the ability to read and write texts of medium complexity in English and basic handling of social platforms (e.g. Whatsapp)
- Note: There are no specific academic requirements. Some participants have no formal education, others have degrees from global institutions
- Note: There is neither a minimum age requirement, nor a maximum age cut off
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