Deadline: October 13, 2025
Applications are open for the Ashoka Social Intrapreneurship for Innovation in Health Course – 22nd Edition. This is a six-week online, facilitated, and interactive course, focused on changemaker talent development, skill-building, and real-life application.
In our rapidly changing world, employee skills—such as intrapreneurship, agility, teamwork, empathy and collaborative leadership— are fundamental to an institution’s ability to innovate and grow into the future. The pitfalls of ignoring these skills can lead to loss of opportunity and competitiveness, along with increased redundancy and inefficiency. Social intrapreneurship is a methodology for sparking, cultivating, advancing and scaling social innovation within institutions. It involves intrapreneurial employees capitalizing on trends such as technology advancement and globalization, and deploying agile, startup strategies.
Ashoka, one of the world’s largest networks of social entrepreneurs and Boehringer Ingelheim, a world-leading health company, have come together to create the six-week online course: Social Intrapreneurship for Innovation in Health. This course is part of the global “Making More Health” initiative to explore innovative pathways to improve access to healthcare for people, animals, and communities around the world. In this course, you will connect with a global community of health professionals from across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors and convene to learn intrapreneurial strategies for creating social and business impact in the health and wellness space.
Course Curriculum
- Module 1: The Business Case for Social Intrapreneurship – The module explores the concept and definition of social intrapreneurship and investigates the business case for fostering intrapreneurship within institutions. Participants are exposed to real world examples and applications to the health sector.
- Module 2: Intrapreneurial Challenges & Opportunities – On Module 2, they look into the importance of defining and understanding the challenges surrounding social intrapreneurship through market research and patient needs. They review examples of these challenges, with attention paid to communicating and framing the problem in a way that is be compelling and understandable to your audience.
- Module 3: Strategies for Advancing Social Innovation Within Your Institution – An innovative idea only is not enough to advance an initiative within your institution. Module 3 explores the practical strategies and steps that social intrapreneurs can take when navigating bureaucratic and institutional obstacles.
- Module 4: Co-Creation Part I: Leveraging Shared Value – Co-Creation is an opportunity for businesses to spark the next generation of sustainable solutions through collaboration with the social sector. New business models and ideas can be inspired by working closely with non-traditional partners, beginning with social entrepreneurs. Module 4 unlocks the concept of co-creation through real world examples of products, services or business models built out of co-creation.
- Module 5: Co-Creation Part II: Idea Development and Pitching – Idea development and pitches are two potent tools for social intrapreneurs at an early stage of their innovations. This module will review the fundamentals of both, offer best practices, and look at case studies.
- Module 6: Final Review and Wrap-up – The final module of the course is an exercise in reflection for course participants and is an opportunity to review all the content covered to date. It also enables participants to crystallize their professional connections made as a result of this course and debate concepts explored throughout. Participants are also invited to join the Making More Health virtual conference, to expand their learnings and grow their networks.
Benefits
The training is free of charge but requires a time commitment of two hours minimum per week.
In this course you will:
- Prepare for a leading role in creating social and business impact within your institution
- Gain skills and strategies to garner internal and external support for innovative projects
- Learn how to collaborate and advance innovation in a bureaucratic setting
- Develop intrapreneurial strategies for co-creation and prototyping
- Connect with a network of intrapreneurs and innovators to share ideas and gain continuous support on your own innovation ideas
- Engage with the global Ashoka network, including Ashoka Fellows, staff and other innovators
Eligibility
- Open to community of health professionals from across private, public, and nonprofit sectors.
- Applicants may be from anywhere around the world.
Application
The course dates are October 20 to November 28, 2025. Applications are open until October 13, 2025.
For more information, visit Ashoka Social Intrapreneurship for Innovation in Health Course.
