Deadline: 6-Jan-23
Join an Inclusive Economy Leadership Program which is designed for social impact leaders tackling the complex challenges of poverty and inequality in Southeast Asia.
The Inclusive Economy Leadership Program in Southeast Asia is a 11-week leadership accelerator designed to equip you with the character and competence to address the complex challenges of poverty and economic inequality. During these 11-weeks, you will have the opportunity to take part in weekly virtual learning labs, virtual group discussions, and work assignments that relate directly to the problems and challenges you’re solving.
The Leadership Accelerator Experience
- Fully virtual 11-week program
- Weekly virtual Learning Labs
- Weekly consultations with peers
- Curated readings that cultivate a richer understanding of your social change work
- Frameworks for leading social change and for holding values in tension
- Weekly assignments to put your new learnings into practice
Benefits
- Understand your role as a social innovator by your identities, values, and choices that have shaped your journey until now and cultivate a deeper understanding of yourself and your work in a broader context
- Experience Acumen’s flagship leadership training embedded in their multi-national Fellowship program
- Improve your leadership capacity to innovate and drive change within your organization by practicing essential adaptive leadership skills
- Learn diagnostic and decision-making methodologies to bridge opposing views and find new opportunities in opposing tensions
- Bring examples from your work into the program to guide your learning — then take new learnings from the program back to your community to guide your work and increase your impact
- Join a diverse cohort and connect with like-minded social leaders to drive social change across the SEA Region.
- Exclusive access to The Foundry network: an invite-only community designed to accompany entrepreneurs and leaders from around the world by connecting them with the social capital (resources and relationships) to amplify their work in building a just, inclusive, and sustainable world
- Identify your leadership gap: Diagnose your adaptive challenge, identify stakeholders and their priorities and learn how to move them towards your ideal.
- Learn to navigate the grey: Manage the tension between your competing priorities and learn how to engage difficult stakeholders who benefit from the status quo.
- Reflect on freedom, justice and equality: Study the work of great thinkers and question your assumptions and approach to building a more equitable economy.
- Join A Lasting Community: Build meaningful relationships with cohort members that are based on shared values and a common purpose.
- Upon completing the 11-week program, participants are admitted to The Foundry.
- Foundry members have exclusive access to:
- Events to learn and connect with fellow foundry members
- Professional development opportunities that may include pro-bono consulting services and professional leadership coaching
- Experts within the Acumen Ecosystem for mentorship or advisory sessions
- Referrals to affiliated leadership programs and platforms
- Access to funding and grants offered ad hoc by other organisations or through referrals within the Acumen network
What will you learn?
Their core curriculum is made up of three key components:
- Adaptive Leadership
- Managing Polarities
- Good Society Readings
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.
- 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, Vietnam, Philippines, 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 5 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 is neither a minimum age requirement, nor a maximum age cut off
For more information, visit https://app.acumenacademy.org/ielp-sea-2023