2016 Developing professionals who create social impact
Professional Skills Workshops Take your professional skills to the next level! Join a global cohort of like minded changemakers for interactive classes on cutting-edge professional skills. International experts will facilitate learning and networking, based on real-life cases and challenges, including those proposed by participants. These courses are part of our Post-Graduate CertiďŹ cate in Social Innovation Management
Courses Available p. 03
Brand Thinking for Changemakers Anne Miltenburg | The Brandling p. 04
Create and Manage a Social Venture Erin Krampetz | Ashoka U
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Introduction to Social Finance Joram Mwinamo | Wylde International p. 06
Value Innovation Nasreen Dhanji | Bluesky Innovations
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Leadership Bootcamp Rajiv Ball | THNK p. 08
Marketing and Open Leadership Simon Cohen | Global Tolerance
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Behavior Change Tinna Nielsen | Move the Elephant
September 1st – 3rd, 9:00am – 5:30pm
Course Description
Brand Thinking for Changemakers Changemakers can only create real impact if their ideas spread to their intended audience. In a world that does not stop for anyone, people need to truly get who you are, what you do, why it matters, and what it means for them, in order for you to succeed. The success of many inuential companies, people, movements and products, lies in the successful application of brand thinking: a method that combines strategic and creative thinking to position yourself in the minds of your audience. Anne will introduce the class to the concept of brand thinking using simple, actionable tools and models to help change makers develop an understanding of what branding is, what it can do for them, and how they can apply it in the daily trenches of social entrepreneurship
Instructor
Anne Miltenburg - Founder The Brandling With a home base in The Hague, Anne has lived and worked in places as diverse as Paris, Bamako, Seoul, Sydney and Riyadh. Before striking out on her own, Anne worked with renown agencies Studio Dumbar, Lava and Interbrand developing brands for clients ranging from large global fashion retailers to human rights activists. Besides her work as The Brandling, Anne is a board member of the Association of Dutch Designers (BNO), a guest lecturer at the Design Academy Eindhoven, Hong-Ik University in Seoul, a.o. She is the founder of Designistan, which develops content, events and programs around design and creativity.
September 8th – 10th, 9:00am – 5:30pm
Course Description
Create and Manage a Social Venture This three-day course will help you understand the role of social entrepreneurship in addressing social challenges. You will learn frameworks, tools, and methodologies (e.g. financial viability, attracting and growing a talented team, building a culture aligned with your values, etc.) to structure your business model, build a team, manage your time and resources, and achieve results in order to enable the change you ultimately wish to make. As a final deliverable, you will make significant progress on a real social venture idea. By the end, you will learn what it means to operate a highly effective social enterprise and feel confident in your ability to build one yourself.
Instructor
Erin Krampetz - Co-Founder Ashoka U Erin launched Ashoka U with the goal of supporting colleges and universities everywhere to become hubs of social innovation. Today, the network has grown to 300 colleges and universities representing 30 countries. Erin and her co-founder, Marina Kim, have been recognized as Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneurs. Erin serves on the Board of the Amani Institute and Watson University, which are both designing new educational models for social innovators.
September 15th – 17th, 9:00am – 5:30pm
Course Description
Finance for the Impact Economy As business models and financing options evolve rapidly in the social impact sector, it's never been more important for changemakers to understand the various options for financing a social venture. This course will cover the basics of both financial management and the current state of the art of social finance. The framing and level of the course is targeted towards people who will not be finance professionals but will eventually manage organizations in which they will need to understand financial management.
Instructor
Joram Mwinamo - Founder Wylde International Joram Mwinamo is the Co-Founder and CEO of WYLDE, an innovative professional services firm, specializing in organization & people development. They help entrepreneurs, executives & their respective teams identify & execute the action steps necessary to build successful, societally impactful organizations. WYLDE uses creative and highly interactive programs to change attitudes that have an overall effect on performance whether in the profit or non-profit sectors.
September 29th – October 1st, 9:00am – 5:30pm
Course Description
Value Innovation
The training provides participants with a framework through which innovation is applied to creating a leap in value for end users. You will learn how to assess the value you will be delivering to end users, determine how that is perceived by them and interpret value curves to understand the gaps between desired value and delivered value and learn to compare the value curve to those of competing initiatives or organizations and learn how that can help to design smarter initiatives that maintain value while reducing the associated cost structure.
Instructor
Nasreen Dhanji - Founder Bluesky Innovations Ltd Bluesky Innovations Ltd. helps organizations develop and strengthen their innovative capabilities. Nasreen has Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Space Studies, and Business Administration. She spent 12 years of her career at the Canadian Space Agency supporting technology development and innovation within the Canadian space sector, robotics operations on the International Space Station and training Astronauts on the use of the Space Station robotics system. Nasreen has performed extensive innovation research in Design Thinking, Lean Start Up, Value Innovation, and Business Innovation Strategies.
October 20th – 22nd, 9:00am – 5:30pm
Course Description
Leadership Bootcamp During the program, participants will learn in a very experiential manner some of the key mindsets, skills and knowledge needed in making the transition from being an individual contributor to a manager. In particular, participants will work on how they lead themselves, how they lead others and how they lead the business. You can expect to take away concrete tools and techniques that you can apply back at work.
Instructor
Rajiv Ball - Partner, THNK; Lecturer, Haas School of Busines, University of California Berkeley Rajiv was formerly a Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was responsible for the leadership development of McKinsey’s 1,500 Partners globally. In this role, Rajiv led multiple learning program redesign efforts and was one of the highest rated program faculty in McKinsey, having worked personally with hundreds of consultants on helping them develop their problem solving and relationship building skills. Rajiv is now a Partner at THNK, the Amsterdam School of Creative Leadership and a lecturer at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, where he lectures on various leadership topics. With an international upbringing – Indian parents, born in the UK, brought up in Zambia and having lived and worked in Ghana, Switzerland and now, The Netherlands – Rajiv’s mission is to enable global leaders to fully unlock their leadership potential.
October 27th – 29th, 9:00am – 5:30pm
Course Description
Marketing and Open Leadership Marketing and Open Leadership covers the latest thinking around social communication - and how to lead the conversations about our work. We will explore our personal visions and values, and how to integrate them into the lifeblood of our social enterprises. Through case studies and stories featuring the world’s leading social changemakers, we will learn how to manage the media, speak to the public, and spark inspirational coverage for our activities.
Instructor
Simon Cohen - Founder Global Tolerance As the Founder of Global Tolerance, a values-driven communications agency, Simon worked with influencers like HH Dalai Lama, HRH The Prince of Wales and Desmond Tutu, reaching hundreds of millions of people. He grew the company to be worth £1m and gave it away in 2014 through a new exit strategy called ‘Open Leadership Exercise’. He has spoken at the United Nations, World Economic Forum, and other international events and has written for Newsweek, Washington Post, The Times, and The Guardian. For two years he was a regular Pause for Thought guest on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2, the most popular broadcast show in the UK. He is mentioned by PRWeek’s Powerbook as one of the most influential people in the PR industry.
November 3rd – 5th, 9:00am – 5:30pm
Course Description
Behaviour Change The global world is changing faster than ever. We are faced with constant requests to adapt and change behavior. However, we still operate with a stone-age brain dominated by instinctive reactions and unconscious bias. We can rationally understand the need to change our behavior to create a more equal and inclusive world for all people, but we will still act in ways that reproduce inequality. You will learn about the human mind and how to apply behavior insights in your work. You will learn how to design interventions to promote behavior, cultural, and systemic change.
Instructor
Tinna Nielsen - Founder Move the Elephant Tinna is an anthropologist and a behavioral economist. She founded Move the Elephant and co-Founded the global community Inclusion Nudges. Tinna also works with the World Economic Forum. She was formerly Global Head of Diversity, Inclusion and Collaboration in Arla Foods (2010-15). She has extensive experience with leadership development, leveraging team potential towards high-performance, and cultural, behavioral and systemic change in organizations.
Prices & Packages Packages are ideal if you want to apply to more than 1 course or for groups
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simple course
35.000 KES / person
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3 courses package
85.000
KES / you save 20.000 KES
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