Course Syllabus

  1. Before you start

  2. Module 1 - Course essentials: what kind of collaboration are we aiming for? [Dur. 31min]

  3. Module 2 - Mapping the journey: What are the common phases and patterns of collaboration? [Dur. 14 min]

  4. Module 3 - Culture of Collaboration: How do we enable a strong, integrative, lasting culture? [Dur. 24min]

  5. Module 4 - Collaboration & I: Change starts with me - how do I show up in this work? [Dur. 19min]

  6. Module 5 - Finding the guiding star: how do we find alignment and a powerful shared intent? [Dur. 20min]

About this course

  • Format: 8 Modules
  • Commitment: 2 hours/ module
  • Dates: 5th Mar - 7th May 2026

Learn more about Ashoka from Diana Wells, President Emerita

"We are on a mission to leverage the powerful frameworks and mindsets needed for living and working together in a radically different world, an “everyone a changemaker world".


Course Objectives

Setting goals beyond our reach so we can have something to live for!

  • Gain practical tools and learn new strategies to create successful conditions for even the most complex collaborations and apply them directly to your work.

  • Reflect with peers and/or with your team members on how these learnings affect our own awareness, intentions, and choices as leaders.

  • Work side-by-side with other members of your collaborative initiative, learning and co-creating together, to then enhance the capacities of the whole group.

  • Receive guidance from experienced facilitators, learn from concrete collaboration cases, and share your experiences with other peers and like-minded changemakers.

Who This Is For

Participants will already have 2-3 team members (as part of their coalition) whom they will join the process with. The application is open to anyone who is currently practicing collaboration. We especially invite applications from:

  • Ashoka Fellows and members of their team

  • Ashoka Young Changemakers and Young People in the Ashoka network

  • Ashoka Support Network members (ASN)

  • Ashoka staff

  • Ashoka corporate partners and their employees

“The exposure to such a diverse global learning community has broadened my thinking and challenged my past approaches -- in the very best ways. I'm walking away with new tools and approaches, and I am excited to put these into action. I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity to learn as part of the community. This has been an amazing Ashoka learning journey. I'd love to do it again!”

Meagan Macvie​ | 2023 Course Participant

“Understanding that collaborative processes are not linear and that all cases are different, it is key to be able to understand and know common patterns, principles, values to take into account, and the dynamics necessary for solid, creative processes to emerge and where trust allows for new developments. The program gave me the confidence to continue approaching different spaces to evaluate possible collaborations, and also to continue advancing in my own projects linked to civic and social innovation. (transl. from Spanish) ”

Paul Iribarne | 2023 Course Participant

“This course provided me with wisdom to tangibly lead beyond just a vision and theory, with real steps and frameworks that have changed the way I engage with the world and my life purpose. I found the specific recommendations really helpful when we dove into each core area of creating a culture of collaboration, such as momentum and its domain-specific items. ”

Ashleigh Pastor | 2023 Course Participant

Course Leads

Meet the owners of this learning experience

June Warde

Co-leader Leading Multi-Stakeholder Collaborations Course

June is one of the co-leaders of the "Leading Multi-Stakeholder Collaborations" learning journey. She has worked as a facilitator, community manager, and organizer for multiple initiatives within Ashoka, notably in the fields of Health and Green Changemaking. She is also a challenge manager for Ashoka Changemaker Challenges, where she builds global engagement journeys for changemakers, surfaces trends in specific fields, and enables connections within ecosystems. June has a background in behavioral sciences, with a passion for understanding human behavior and decision-making in the context of social change.

Léna Borsoi

Co-leader Leading Multi-Stakeholder Collaborations Course

Léna Borsoi co-leads the learning journey "Leading Multi-Stakeholder Collaborations" of the Europe Fellowship program. She also co-created and co-leads collaborative initiatives gathering, respectively, Ashoka Health Fellows and Gender fellows who are are analyzing systemic issues in their region and joining forces to address them. For several years, she has been researching and working on the nexus between leadership and impactful cross-sector collaborations, more particularly as a program manager for the Executive in Residence program, supporting collaboration between corporate leaders and social entrepreneurs.