Once again, the Ashoka Visionary Program in Central and Eastern Europe has opened its application for the next edition - starting on 19 October '23 in Vienna!? The executive leadership program offers leaders of change from all sectors a comprehensive 9-month learning journey that covers the life cycle of a social entreprise. Its 7 modules contain all the necessary ingredients: social entrepreneurship & innovation ➜ impact & social business modeling ➜ funding & scaling ➜ wellbeing & new leadership ➜ system change ➜ partnerships & co-creation and finally ➜ storytelling & marketing. In short, it teaches changemaking skills in an entrepreneurial, immersive way and creates a space for changemakers to co-create.

With Ashoka Fellows and academic experts, practical know-how and personal stories. Based on Ashoka's 40+ years of experience in facilitating systems-changing impact. For only 30 selected participants: Ashoka Fellows, current and future social entrepreneurs, highly motivated professionals from different sectors (corporate world, public sector, civil society/NGOs, foundations, and impact founders). The selected Ashoka Fellows join the program for a special reduced fee of 1000€. 

To introduce the program and give potential participants a better feeling for it, the organising team has set up info calls. This the first one of them, happy to see you there. Special price only till end of April.

Apply now, get the Early Bird discount. 

Let's see if the program is the right place for you to thrive (or for someone even outside of the Ashoka bubble you know and care about). Can you answer all of this with YES?

• ✅ You want to listen to the life stories of Ashoka Fellows and other ground-breaking social entrepreneurs, ask them all your questions and reflect on them for your own journey?

• ✅ You want to get access to the field of social entrepreneurship, accelerate your changemaking and responsible leadership skills, and/or reflect on your personal changemaking journey for more purpose?

• ✅ You want to implement learnings into practice by supporting a social entrepreneur or developing your own social enterprise?

• ✅ You don't want to do it all alone, and instead want to exchange experiences with like-minded leaders from diverse sectors, create collective impact together and join a supportive alumni network to accompany you further?

• ✅ You can commit to attending 7 practice-based modules, of 15 days in total (Friday-Saturday), between October 2023 and June 2024 in Vienna?

The Early Bird round is now officially open, saving applicants 10% of the participation fee. We can only accept 30 participants per cohort, so we recommend applying early. The Early Bird offer ends on 30 April.

Prototyped and operated out of the Ashoka Austria office, the Visionary Program is offered in three regions: Central and Eastern Europe, East Africa, the Mediterranean and soon more.