Pakistan Acumen Fellowship – Apply Now!

The Pakistan Acumen Fellowship is a rigorous leadership program that brings together a cohort of extraordinary individuals working on problems of poverty and equips them with the knowledge, skills, and community to strengthen their leadership and scale their impact to create meaningful change in Pakistan.

After Fellow Candidates complete the program they join The Foundry, a community of like-minded peers who are working across sectors and geographies to build a world based on dignity. As part of this diverse community committed to sharing ideas and experiences, they gain access to capital, coaching, and continuous learning as part of lifelong accompaniment on their journey to creating social change.

Acumen Fellows in Pakistan are actively addressing a range of challenges spanning education, healthcare, and environmental advocacy. Through impactful ventures such as equitable school models, climate-resilient farming practices, and accessible healthcare initiatives, they are empowering communities and paving the way for a more just and prosperous Pakistan.

• Draw inspiration from thought-provoking readings, videos, and reflections.
• Combination of virtual and in-person seminars to allow flexibility
• Get expert coaching and consulting from the partners
• Gain recognition for your work to amplify impact across new domains

Curriculum

• For over 17 years, the flagship Fellowship curriculum has equipped Fellow Candidates with the knowledge, support systems, and skills they need to lead social change, work across lines of difference, and mobilize their communities.
• Fellow Candidates remain in their jobs and participate in a 6 months hybrid program that consists of virtual sessions (i.e. orientation, learning labs, cohort calls, check-ins) and in-person immersives.
• The following provides a high-level overview:
  • One 3-day virtual Orientation
    • Two 5-day full-time in-person immersive (8 hours of assignments for each immersive consisting of self-paced learning and group calls)
  • Four Learning Labs (4 hours each along with assignments)
    • Fellow Candidates build trust and test new leadership skills within their cohort. This cohort-based model creates deep bonds that persist well beyond the program, and Fellows build peer relationships that prove invaluable on their journey toward creating greater impact.
• Fellowship curriculum highlights below:
  • Polarity Management
  • Good Society Readings
  • Adaptive Leadership
  • Authentic Voice

Fellowship Impact

• Fellows come from all walks of life – they work in all sectors, industries, and issue areas, and share the determination and vision to build a world based on dignity. The Program supports the Fellows’ impact across three levels:
  • Individual: Fellows are challenged to reflect on their values and behavior, and to change the way they think of and engage with larger systems to create a world based on dignity.
  • Organizational: The program offers a space for Fellows to practice new leadership methods that create different outcomes in their teams and organizations.
  • Societal: The program enables Fellows to cultivate a deeper understanding of how to influence change across their broader communities and ecosystems, whether directly or through their organizational work.
• At its core, the Fellowship is focused on translating this impact into three interconnected outcomes:
  • The Foundry: Fellows belong to the global community, The Foundry, that accompanies them over a lifetime, creating opportunities for support, collaboration and collective impact.
  • Moral Leadership: Fellows help catalyze the practices of Moral Leadership within society, building a growing movement that strives to role-model a world based on dignity.
  • Reimagining success: Fellows help shape the actions of their organizations and initiatives to build solutions that reimagine the goals, structures, and rules of existing systems in order to meaningfully address systemic problems of poverty.

Who are they looking for?

• The Fellowship looks for “builders” who are working to solve problems of poverty. Builders include founders, CEOs, and senior leaders (COO, MD, etc.) at for-profit, nonprofit, or hybrid social enterprises as well as corporate or government sector intrapreneurs. While these titles offer a glimpse of the types of roles Fellows play, what matters most is what you’re building and the track record of your impact.
• Applicants must have a minimum of 5 years of professional experience and should be able to demonstrate their commitment to solving issues of poverty.
• Applicants should demonstrate their ability and willingness to give (contributing their knowledge, experiences, networks, and/or ideas) and receive support from the Foundry.
• Applicants must have a reliable internet connection, be fully available to participate throughout the entirety of the program, and be able to participate in English.

For more information, visit Acumen Academy.