Rethink your impact - Course
Aligning your purpose with the work you do, the projects you run, the business you build is not a ‘nice to have’. It’s essential to driving sustainable change, building movements and creating momentum. This course focuses on uncovering and creating alignment of purpose, as well as identifying the potential you have to create a long standing impact in the world around you. The fundamentals of impact strategy start here.
Course overview
Find your Why
Set your personal objectives by getting to know your values, your talents, your purpose.
Fall in love with the problem
Ideas will come and go, solutions will evolve. But understanding the problems you want to solve is crucial and fundamental to building/designing/creating something impactful. Develop empathy, resiliency and most importantly, love for the problem you’re solving for.
Who faces the problem?
Develop new ways of seeing the world around you, highlighting the human and environmental systems at play.
Uncover your insights
Your insights are like your unique blueprint for action. Information is everywhere. But information without inspiration, direction or understanding doesn’t move us forward. Learn how to spot an insight and how to leverage them.
Your Problem Statement
Communicating the direction of your work in a clear and concise way is key to a successful project or business.
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Key Takeaways
Uncover and align your purpose
Deeply understand the problem system you want to tackle
Identify and leverage your unique insights
Formulate your key statement to driving change
Key Topics
- Understanding your purpose
- Systems Thinking- Navigating the positive and negative effects of impact
- The Job to Be Done Framework
- Empathy building
- Insight development
- Framing your impact direction
Over 35 videos
6 Self-Directed Exercises
4 Key Frameworks
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Gain the tools and adopt the mindsets to build your brand.
US$ 250
(lifetime access)
The instructors
Craig Vezina
With over two decades of experience at the forefront of international education, Craig is also the founder and President of the Z-17 Collective (formerly ZSchool: The International School of Social Entrepreneurship) & a leading voice around the power of innovation for a more sustainable future for people + planet. Craig has worked with forward-thinking schools, NGOs and businesses and presented at a wide array of global education, sustainability and impact events (including the UN's Festival of Action, SXSWedu, ChangeNow Summit & many more). Craig is also a member of the global advisory board of Education for Sharing (E4S) and serves on OECD’s Education & Skills 2030 Global Forum & UNESCO’s Futures of Education initiative.
Laura Francois
With a focus on creative design for sustainable development, Laura has been working globally empowering startups, nonprofits and governments to maximize sustainability and use creativity in business as a force for good in Canada and Southeast Asia. Laura is a trained social impact strategist and her work has been featured on BBC World News, Forbes, Netflix, TedX, The Disruptive Design Festival (DIF) and Singapore Design Week
Andy Lopez
Andy has extensive experience in storytelling for social impact, namely brand content writing, copywriting as well as bringing people up together.
Enroll for this Course
US$ 250
(lifetime access)