Deadline: 21 February 2017
The East West Center is currently seeking applications for its 2017 Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Seminar that will focus on the important role that innovation and entrepreneurship play in contributing to economic growth, job creation, and strengthening communities.
During this 12-day professional training, dialogue and travel program, participants will engage in a series of workshops focused on leadership and entrepreneurship facilitated by a noted women’s leadership trainer and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Participants also expand their knowledge of entrepreneurship, economic growth, leadership, and community building through carefully selected field visits and meetings with experts, practitioners, business owners, and policymakers in Hawaii. Participants are individually matched with local women leaders in a Host Mentor program and, in return, Changing Faces participants acted as mentors for a select group of high school students from a local all-girls school.
The Changing Faces Seminar also provides training and consultative sessions to help participants develop and actualize a concrete Action Plan for the betterment of their business or their community. Finally Changing Faces women will serve as panelist, moderators and attendees at the publicly ticketed #galswithLEI, a purposeful, collaborative, and dynamic forum.
Theme: Women as Innovators and Entrepreneurs
Funding
- EWC plus individual scholarships will fund eight to ten women from the U.S. and the Asia Pacific region.
- EWC and scholarship funding covers lodging and meals on Oahu and Hawaii Island, local ground transportation, interisland airfare to Hawaii Island, and other programmatic costs. Participants are responsible for their roundtrip airfare to and from Honolulu, visa fees, health insurance, and baggage charges. EWC encourages additional participant cost-sharing of programmatic costs and considers cost-sharing in the selection of applicants.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Changing Faces Seminar targets female business owners and social entrepreneurs who have demonstrated leadership and ability to affect change and influence others in their communities. Innovative entrepreneurs, business managers, government and industry policymakers, and civil society leaders with at least seven years of work experience and who play a leadership role in their community are eligible to apply.
- Innovators may generally be defined as those who have created an original idea or product or are recognized for their ability to improve upon an original idea or system.
- Applicants must have the ability to communicate in English in a professional setting.
- Preference is given to candidates with limited opportunities for international exchange and professional development as well as those who have offered to cost-share programmatic costs.
How to Apply
All eligible applicants must submit an application form along with the supporting documents, via email, fax or post.
Eligible Countries
Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, East Timor, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kiribati, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, New Zealand, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tuvalu, United States, Vanuatu, Tonga, and Vietnam.
For more information, please visit Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Seminar.
