Deadline: 25-Nov-22
The Acumen Academy is excited to announce its Fellows Program to promote people capable of generating systemic changes in a complex and interconnected world.
The Fellows Program purpose is to provide training and support to people who are an integral part of an organization that works to create a better world.
The Acumen Fellows Program was born in 2007 in New York to encourage leaders from around the world who had the determination, imagination and perseverance to dream of a better world and make it a reality. In 2020, the program arrives in Spain at the hands of the Open Value Foundation, betting on leaders who come from different sectors, communities and beliefs. In 2022, they added the collaboration with two great allies, the Camilo José Cela University and Arcano Partners.
Today, Acumen Fellows are part of a global community with more than 1,000 Fellows in different countries around the world. As a whole, it is estimated that, through the different initiatives led by each of the Fellows, more than eight million people are benefiting.
During the Year of Formation
- Throughout the Program, the Fellows live a transformative experience through which they train essential social-emotional skills to take their work to the next level. Diversity is at the heart of the program and is part of its essence. They seek that each Cohort is a mirror of Spanish society.
- Learning takes place in Cohorts, which are groups of people that form a safe space where everyone can be authentic and vulnerable and anyone can share the challenges they are facing. What is learned is learned through experiences within the cohort, with examples, real situations and cases lived in the reality of the organizations in which each Fellow works.
- The Program consists of three face-to-face and experiential meetings lasting five days and two virtual meetings. During these sessions, the Fellows meet and put into practice what they have learned in the virtual sessions and in the activities between sessions.
After the Training Year
- You will be part of a community of people that extends not only locally but also globally
- You will have the opportunity to access a series of services, advantages and programs for free
Who is the program intended for?
- The people targeted by the Program are interested in growing in their personal development and acquiring those soft skills necessary to take their leadership to the next level.
- Their goal is to make a bigger impact in the communities they already work with and connect with people who will help them amplify that impact. They are characterized by helping to dignify human beings through their projects or social causes, by learning from failures and by having the ability to take risks even in the most difficult moments. They manage to connect and create relationships that promote change, they have the ability to put themselves in other people’s shoes and connect their social cause with a greater goal.
During the Fellows Program:
- You will learn to catalyze and embrace the gradual and meaningful process of creating change on a personal, organizational, and societal level.
- You will cultivate the ability to lead effectively when opposing but interdependent values are in tension.
- You will understand how to lead diverse stakeholders through recurring and complex challenges.
- You will develop the ability to tell meaningful stories that mobilize others to action.
- You will examine your identities, values and choices that you have cultivated so far and be able to build a deeper understanding of yourself and your work in a larger context.
- You will explore the meaning of a just society and the moral and historical basis for social change through dialogue.
- You will navigate systemic problems and design effective interventions using the moral imagination.
- You will question your assumptions and beliefs about how to lead effective change.
- You will feel support and accompaniment by a cohort of like-minded people who seek to generate social and/or environmental change.
- their curriculum is based on powerful leadership frameworks, tools, and approaches including: Adaptive Leadership, Authentic Voice, Good Society Readings, Immunity to Change, and Managing Polarities.
Who are they looking for?
- Above all, they look for people who are committed to social justice, who are humble, resilient and gutsy, with a deep sense of purpose and the ability to influence and inspire action.
- Social Entrepreneurs: People who start and/or are part of a project or organization, with or without profit, whose purpose is to solve social and/or environmental problems present in society. Their priorities are positive social and/or environmental impact over economic benefit.
- Social Dynamizers: People who serve as loudspeakers to draw attention to social and/or environmental problems through dissemination, culture or artistic expression. Its purpose is to achieve awareness and mobilization among citizens.
- Intrapreneurs: People who work in organizations or private companies that question traditional management systems and develop transformation projects and strategic alliances. They intend to mobilize economic resources and talent towards the generation of a large-scale social and/or environmental impact.
- Organizational Catalyst: People who play an integral role in building an organization. They focus on working on the internal structure, systems and processes that allow the organization to achieve its social and/or environmental purpose from a more strategic perspective.
- Public Administration: People who from the public administration are changing the traditional mode of management. They intend to generate alliances between the different sectors to promote initiatives.
For more information, visit https://fellowship.acumenacademy.org/es/spain