Introduction to Visionary Leadership
About the Learning & Collaboration Journey
Join this learning and collaboration journey to learn about the importance of visionary leadership.
Participants will learn how to create powerful vision statements and action plans, understand the importance of a systems-level approach, and explore the basic elements of Changemaking Ecosystems™
Learning & Collaboration Journey Topics
- Creating Your Vision and Action Plan
- Values Alignment
- Introduction to Systems Thinking
- Introduction to Changemaking Ecosystems™
Learning & Collaboration Journey Goals and Outcomes
Creating Your Vision and Action Plan
- Articulate your vision
- Create an action plan based on: knowledge of social innovation and changemaking in higher education, knowledge of best practices and examples, institutional contexts, and Changemaker Campus Criteria
Values Alignment
Dive into your institution’s strategic goals, directions, and priorities and begin to map those to the Changemaker Campus designation criteria.
Introduction to Systems Thinking
Explore how to look at system change through an organizational change management lens (i.e. having a clear understanding of how and why a desired change is expected to happen in a particular context).
Introduction to Changemaking Ecosystems™
What is a Changemaking Ecosystem™? What are the most important elements of your Changemaking Ecosystem™?
Learning & Collaboration Journey Benefits
All Ashoka U Learning & Collaboration Journeys offer the following opportunities:
- Build strong ties with other Change Leaders and learn from their diverse perspectives through activities, peer reviews, and presentation evaluations.
- Gain access to a range of materials to accelerate your learning as you transform your program, institution, and ecosystem
- Engage with and learn from Change Leaders from Changemaker Campuses and learn more about Ashoka and social innovation from members of Ashoka's global network.
- Reflect on and create your Changemaker Story
- Learn about Ashoka and the Everyone a Changemaker vision
- Learn about Ashoka U and the Changemaker Campus Network
- Engagement with key Ashoka U resources developed in collaboration with hundreds of higher education institutions around the world.
Add-ons
Participate in spotlight coaching conversation with Change Leaders at current Changemaker Campuses to learn more about their social innovation and changemaking ecosystems and learnings from the Designation Process.
Resources
- Ashoka's Changemaker Index (CMI): Learn about your own changemaking capacity
- Becoming A Changemaker Institution: Guidebook and robust framework for faculty, staff, and student leaders who are ready to embed changemaking into their work, leadership, campus communities, and changemaking ecosystems.
- Evaluating Changemaker Education: A Practitioner's Guide: Strategic evaluation practices to strengthen changemaking across your institution
- Preparing Students for a Rapidly Changing World: Learning outcomes from a variety of disciplines for courses, course sequences, and co-curricular programs
- Curriculum Guide: Learn about promising approaches to curriculum and teaching, and opportunities for innovation in changemaking education
- Changemaker Institutions: Learn how the Changemaker Institution model can help your campus improve recruitment, fundraising, community influence, student outcomes, and engagement at all levels of your institution.
Join A Learning & Collaboration Journey
Ashoka U Learning & Collaboration Journeys are offered on demand.
Contact us: AshokaU [@] ashoka.org if you are interested in hosting one!