Journeys for Change helps exceptional leaders create greater impact in the world. We do this by taking them on interactive 'learning journeys' to learn about innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership from some of the world’s most inspiring social entrepreneurs.

Our November 2009 social entrepreneurship journey will immerse participants in a once-in-a-lifetime 10-day experience in India.

Joining a select group of senior leaders from some of the world’s top private, public and civil society organisations, participants will get first-hand lessons from some of Kolkata and Hyderabad’s leading social entrepreneurs. The journey will include interactive site visits, discussion around local and national issues, and personal and group reflection time.

The aim will be to enable participants to enhance their leadership skills, broaden their vision and give them high-value, actionable ideas to for their work.

Participants on our journeys have come from organisations as diverse as Nike, JPMorgan, the Bertelsmann Foundation, INSEAD and the UK National Health service. Our alumni network consists of more than 120 exceptional leaders spanning four continents.

Provisional highlights

• A visit to the India headquarters of Acumen Fund, one of the world's leading social venture funds (www.acumenfund.org)

• A visit to SKS Microfinance, founded by Vikram Akula. Vikram is recognised by Time Magazine as one of today's 100 most influential people. (www.sksindia.com)

• A visit to the India headquarters and field projects of Vision Spring (www.visionspring.org), which provides reading glasses to tens of thousands of India's poor. Vision Spring is one of the leading microfranchise models in the world, a Skoll Award Winner and multi-year winner of Fast Company's Social Capitalist Award.

• Time with a number of leading Ashoka fellows in India as well as a number of other grassroots social entrepreneurs and innovators