What you can take away from the experience

• Actionable insights on innovation, leadership and new business models to accelerate your career and your organisation’s growth
• Inspiration and space for personal growth and renewal
• New opportunities for international partnerships and collaborations, through high-value relationships with senior leaders from a broad range of organisations across the world
• A unique view into India’s culture and a greater understanding of its role as an increasingly powerful global player

Provisional highlights

• A visit to the India headquarters of Acumen Fund, one of the world's leading social venture funds (www.acumenfund.org) and one of the social enterprises they have invested in, Life Spring Hospitals (www.lifespringhospitals.com)
   
• A visit to SKS Microfinance, founded by Vikram Akula. Vikram is recognised by Time Magazine as one of today's 100 most influential people. (www.sksindia.com)
   
• A visit to the India headquarters and field projects of Vision Spring (www.visionspring.org), formerly Scojo Foundation, which provides reading glasses to tens of thousands of India's poor. Vision Spring is one of the leading microfranchise models in the world, a Skoll Award Winner and multi-year winner of Fast Company's Social Capitalist Award.
   
• Time with a number of leading Ashoka fellows in India as well as a number of other grassroots social entrepreneurs and innovators 
   
• An experience of two diverse cities and states in India - Kolkata in West Bengal and Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh
   
• A visit to the Indian School of Business, one of world's top business schools (www.isb.edu)

Participants

We will be selecting up to 20 leaders to take part in the experience. Previous participants have included senior leaders in the private, public and civil society sectors, social entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs, policy makers, philanthropists and academics.

Costs

Details of costs are available on application. We have a tiered fee structure that enables leaders from different backgrounds and sectors to take part, including a limited number of bursaries for exceptional social entrepreneurs. 

How to apply

Places are strictly limited, so we strongly recommend registering your interest early to avoid disappointment. You can do this by clicking on the button below.

The super early-bird deadline is 31 July 2012; the early-bird deadline is 30 September 2012.