The Acumen Way New Leadership for a New World John McKinley Where - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
The Acumen Way New Leadership for a New World John McKinley Where - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
The Acumen Way New Leadership for a New World John McKinley Where it started Create a world beyond poverty Imagine a world beyond poverty Mission Acumen Fund Inves-ng
Where ¡it ¡started… ¡
Imagine ¡a ¡world ¡beyond ¡poverty ¡
Mission
Create ¡a ¡world ¡beyond ¡poverty ¡ ¡
Acumen ¡Fund ¡
Inves-ng ¡in ¡social ¡enterprises, ¡ emerging ¡leaders ¡and ¡breakthrough ¡ ideas ¡
Invest in companies
Patient Capital
Identify enterprises Provide managerial assistance Share successes and lessons Scale businesses
Raise philanthropic dollars
Invest
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Water & Sanitation Housing Health Energy Agriculture
Our investments create access to basic services for the poor
Education
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India Pakistan East Africa West Africa
Cumulative impact $81 million 72 companies 100 million individuals reached 57,000 jobs created
Invest in leaders
Global Fellows Program
2 ¡MONTHS ¡ 9 ¡MONTHS ¡
Global Fellows
Program Design
FIELD PLACEMENT TRAINING
JOCELYN
- Exec. Dir., IDEO.org
ASIM Social entrepreneur SURAJ Acumen Fund ERIC Bamboo Finance GAMU
Youth Entrepreneurship
MARIO Edu-preneur ADRIEN Partner, Dalberg JOSEPHAT Dir., VECO-Uganda CATHERINE Acumen Fund KHURAM Omidyar Network JOANNA Endeavor RAM
Bridge Int’l Academies
BRYAN Social entrepreneur BAVIDRA Social entrepreneur JAWAD CEO, AMC HEIDI
COO, New Island Cap.
Seeing Results
Regional Fellows Program
East Africa Fellows Program Pakistan Fellows Program India Fellows Program West Africa Fellows Program
Scaling with +acumen
Moral Imagination Operational Skills Financial Skills
The “Acumen Way”
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HUMILITY AUDACITY
- Possess deep self awareness
- Build empathy
- Build relationships across lines of difference
- Take risks-experiment-fail-repeat
- Generosity
- Lead on the edges
- Values driven action
Moral imagination
Financial Skills Moral Imagination Operational Skills
Curriculum
Everyday Barriers
Good Society Seminar
Online curriculum
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Pilot course: Acumen Leadership Essentials 2012
We want more people to be able to “add acumen” to their lives and then empower them to change the world in their own way
Number trained / year
10,000 ¡ 1,000 ¡ 100 ¡ 10 ¡
+acumen online +acumen chapters Regional Fellows (in 5 geographies) Global Fellows