Turn your Summit inspiration into post - Summit action
Starting in January 2025, The Action Accelerator is designed to help One Young World Ambassadors from 2024 Montreal Summit to take their ideas from inspiration to impact.
Action Accelerator consists of six core modules to support delegates from the Summit in their effort to launch and scale sustainability initiatives. Each module features a core online workshop, a follow up action session and offline resources.
Through the programme, participants will follow and complete a workbook, tracking their progress through the Accelerator. At the end, participants can apply to compete in a Practice Pitch Competition with the chance to win a place at Munich 2025.
The launch meeting for the programme is on the 5 December. Please register before 2 December if you would like to attend the launch meeting. The deadline for registration is 6 January.
Register here
Workshops
14 January
Find Your Solution
The first topic of problem and solution discovery will cover the process of identifying and understanding a potential area of impact as well as applying various solution hypotheses in simple ways such as proof of concept, prototypes and other techniques to find the most efficient and effective solution.
10 February
Create an Action Plan
By this stage, participants should know what problem they want to address, and what they want to achieve, leaving the big question: how? In this session, participants will set out the key actions required.
28 March
Create Your Pitch
In the second phase of the programme, participants will explore ways to communicate their vision and mission to raise vital support and resources for their initiative through their pitching skill.
28 January
Vision and Mission Setting
Now that participants have investigated the problem and identified a solution, we will discuss the process of vision setting as well as mission setting and understand the significance of leveraging company values to maximise impact.
18 March
Branding and Storytelling
Brand storytelling is the process of using narrative techniques to connect with an audience, and shape and clarify a brand's identity. Brand storytelling can be why customers choose your brand or why people want to work with you. But what is it and how do you start telling your brand story? In this session participants will explore the ways to apply storytelling in branding.
9 April
Understand Your Impact
As participants start to generate the social impact they had planned, this session will help participants not only analyse their success, but use the analysis to continually accelerate the initiative beyond the programme.
Mentor Sessions
Date - TBC
Leadership and Resilience
This will be an exclusive session for participants within the programme to learn more about developing resilient leadership with an One Young World Counsellor. A resilient organisation not only survives, but also thrives in an environment of change and uncertainty whereas strong leadership that promotes cohesive and interdependent teams is a critical component of a resilient organisation
Date - TBC
Scaling Strategies
This will be an exclusive session for participants within the programme to learn about scaling strategies with an One Young World Counsellor. Scaling isn’t just about an entrepreneur’s willingness to grow, but also about their capacity to develop a scaling strategy that reflects an understanding of the various aspects that must be adjusted to achieve scaling goals. This session will help participants understand the new capabilities they need to develop in order to grow.
Additional Agenda
Seminar
These online meetings are arranged for participants to share their learnings with their peers and follow up on the main action points from the related workshop and Personal Workbook. This will be a space to learn from each other and brainstorm with fellow participants.
Seminar 1 - 06 March
Seminar 2 - 13 March
Seminar 3 - 07 May
Seminar 4 - 19 May
11 June and 12 June
Practice Pitch Competition
All participants can apply with their social impact initiatives to put into practice some of the lessons, and present their projects to a panel of experts. Selected participants will receive an invite to the 2025 One Young World Summit!
Interested in participating in the 2024 edition of the Action Accelerator?
Deadline for the application is 6 January. If you want to attend the launch meeting, you need to register before 2 December.
For more information on the programme and what is involved as a participant, please contact the team via [email protected]