https://www.wise-qatar.org/wise-works/wise-emerging-leaders/#2022
WISE Emerging Leaders is a nine-month fellowship program for the next generation of leaders in education who wish to embark on a learning journey that cultivates the mindsets, skills, and techniques necessary to thrive, nurture communities, and transform education systems.
In a time when education is disrupted by multiple crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the burnout epidemic, and the ecological collapse, WISE believes it is ever more important to create stimulating and nourishing spaces for education leaders to come together, connect meaningfully, learn with each other, and collaborate for collective impact. Transforming education systems requires change at the structural and systemic levels, but also at the intrapersonal and interpersonal levels. Leaders who lead with self-awareness, compassion, and creativity, who cultivate their own and their team’s wellbeing, and who weave people and projects together are leaders who can spark innovation and systemic change.
The WEL Fellowship brings together 15–20 carefully selected young leaders in education from around the world in a hybrid format consisting of an in-person residential session, a series of online workshops with education experts, a number of asynchronous reflective blog posts, a concrete project to apply in their organizations, and tailored mentoring support to develop their project.
WISE is seeking to collaborate with high-impact organizations to nominate young education professionals from within their organizations or network to support their personal and professional development. If you would like to nominate promising young leaders from your organization, please get in touch with emergingleaders@wise.org.qa.
“The WISE fellowship is so unique in that it brings such a diverse group of individuals to learn from each other professionally and just as equally, personally.
Time has never flown by so fast as it did in every webinar and residential session I spent with my WISE fellows. I learnt more about the world, about education, about learning and about the goodness of humanity. It was and still is – through every chat, message, catch up sessions – a truly life transforming and forward thinking experience!”
Christina Bwana, Chief Operations Officer and General Manager, Ubongo (2020 fellow)
“I sound quite cheesy when I talk about the WISE emerging leaders programme as I truly believe it was one of the most transformational experiences of my career and life. My work in the UK is around system change, and modelling and leading a new type of collective leadership to make education fairer. It’s challenging work personally and professionally and the WISE programme prompted a mindset shift for me that I don’t believe I would have been able to do this work without. Most importantly it connected me deeply to the other fellows; I now have an incredible like-minded community (now friends!) around the world who continue the gifts of the programme through their strength, support and practical tools and tips!”
Samantha Butters, Chief Executive Officer, Fair Education Alliance (2019 fellow)
The 2022 WISE Emerging Leaders cohort consists of 15 women and men from 14 countries, representing diverse backgrounds and disciplines. Selected fellows include young professionals from organizations from the WISE community and social innovators actively engaged in delivering or designing education initiatives within their organization or networks.
Meet the Emerging Leaders 2022
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