Building the Future: Entrepreneurship and Leadership

Course Objectives

• Understand the fundamental concepts of entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership.
• Identify opportunities and generate creative, high-impact business or social ideas.
• Develop practical skills for business model design, project planning, and value creation.
• Build effective teams and collaborate in multicultural and multidisciplinary environments.
• Strengthen problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making abilities.
• Learn the basics of financial planning, budgeting, and resource management for new ventures.
• Enhance leadership skills, including motivation, communication, and ethical decision-making.
• Explore strategies for pitching ideas, attracting support, and communicating vision.
• Foster an entrepreneurial mindset of resilience, adaptability, and continuous learning.
• Design, develop, and present a concrete business or social impact project.

Schedule

MODULE 1 – The Entrepreneur-Leader Mindset

• Key attitudes: initiative, vision, ethical leadership, resilience, and lifelong learning
• Self-assessment: mapping your entrepreneurial and leadership strengths
• Growth mindset: embracing challenges, learning from failure
• Real stories of entrepreneurial leaders 

MODULE 2 – Opportunity Recognition & Value Creation

• How entrepreneurial leaders spot and shape opportunities
• From problem to idea: design thinking, creative leadership, and social innovation
• Defining a compelling vision and mission for your project or business
• “Challenge Lab”: identifying real needs in your environment

MODULE 3 – Team Building and Collaborative Leadership

• Building and leading high-performing, diverse teams
• Leadership styles for entrepreneurs: from visionary to servant leadership
• Dynamics of trust, delegation, and motivation
• Role-playing: leading teams through uncertainty and change

MODULE 4 – Project Design, Business Models & Impact

• Business Model Canvas with a leadership lens: creating sustainable value
• Strategic planning: setting goals, milestones, and indicators of success
• Aligning business and social impact: the double bottom line
• Prototyping solutions and leading iterative testing
• Real examples: social enterprises, start-ups, and changemakers

MODULE 5 – Communication, Influence and Negotiation

• The leader’s voice: persuasive communication and storytelling
• Building your pitch: influence, credibility, and vision sharing
• Networking as an entrepreneurial and leadership skill
• Negotiation strategies for founders and team leaders
• Media and digital presence: leading your narrative

MODULE 6 – Financial Intelligence and Resource Leadership

• Financial basics for leaders: budgeting, fundraising, managing risk
• Entrepreneurship funding options: investors, crowdfunding, competitions
• Leading with transparency and ethics in resource management
• Resource mapping: leveraging networks and partnerships

MODULE 7 – Leading Innovation and Managing Change

• Fostering a culture of innovation: creativity, agility, and experimentation
• Change management: leading others through transformation
• Resilience in leadership: handling failure, learning, and pivoting
• Case clinics: innovation leadership in start-ups and social projects

MODULE 8 – Ethics, Impact & Sustainability in Leadership

• Ethics in entrepreneurship: leading with integrity and responsibility
• Social and environmental impact: measuring, communicating, and scaling value
• Inclusive leadership: building projects that empower and respect diversity
• Stakeholder engagement and responsible governance

MODULE 9 – The Project Lab: From Idea to Implementation

• Step-by-step development of a business or impact project
• Action learning: weekly mentoring, peer-to-peer leadership, and team feedback
• Preparing the final pitch and business/impact plan
• Public showcase and real feedback from external mentors or partners
• Next steps: how to lead your project to real-world action, funding, or incubation