Participants from INSEAD executive programmes for impact entrepreneurship surveyed by a core team of INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Programme (ISEP) graduates, to craft an Impact Entrepreneurship Community.

Last year, against the backdrop of ChangeNOW 2023, INSEAD hosted a three-day structured learning expedition for over 80 graduates of INSEAD executive programmes for impact entrepreneurs*. Leveraging the connections made during this gathering a core team was formed by INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Programme graduates**. Their mission? To craft and solidify a global community of impact entrepreneurs. This new consolidated group, with all INSEAD impact entrepreneurship graduates, would be called The Hans Wahl Impact Entrepreneurship Community (HWIEC).

The Hans Wahl Impact Entrepreneurship Community primarily comprises of entrepreneurs who took the INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Programme. ISEP ran for 15 years on both Europe and Asia campuses (28 sessions) with global cohorts - all continents and regions represented within graduates. It was co-directed by Hans Wahl, Professor Filipe Santos and Professor Jasjit Singh. The INSEAD impact entrepreneurship community currently stands at over 900 impact entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs globally. With such a vast pool of impact entrepreneurs, the ISEP core team *** decided to survey the community, to better understand the ecosystem. The survey was sent to graduates on August 1st 2023, of which 25% of the community responded. Every impact entrepreneurship cohort, spanning 17 years, from the first ISEP in 2006 through to the first Hans Wahl Programme cohort in 2023 was represented. The geographical distribution of survey respondents demonstrates just how global the community is.

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