Congratulations on completing Year 1 of the Acumen Fellows Programme! The Acumen Fellowship is designed to improve your capacity to deliver lasting change on issues of poverty and injustice.

We want to better understand your leadership development journey and how the Fellowship has helped you grow your impact.

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Closing Seminar

Objectives

Use this opportunity to make sense of the last few months by reflecting on your leadership journey.
Continue to deepen your relationship with your cohort, by providing and receiving feedback and support from other Fellows.
Begin to move towards your post-Fellowship experience, by discussing and articulating shared cohort goals and norms (planning and self-organising going into the Foundry).

1. Think of what you learned in last week's Immersive. Which ONE learning is most relevant to your leadership development?

2. What is the current state of the cohort at the close of the programme? (1) Being disconnected and distant to, and (10) your ideal cohort

3. a) How would you rate the facilitation for this seminar?

Very effectiveSomewhat effectiveNot effective

3. b) Would you like to give any additional feedback on the facilitation?

6. Has the Fellowship had any effects on your social impact?

The Fellowship has...

Deepened my impactNot had an effect on my impactLessened my impact

How has it deepened your impact?

Why has it not affected your impact?

How has it lessened your impact?

Moral Leadership Scorecard As you know, Acumen Academy strives to create learning spaces to develop, practice, and apply 12 practices of moral leadership. These 12 practices serve as the foundation of our work and of the learning products and programmes we develop.

To support you in creating a more just, inclusive, and sustainable world, the Fellows Programme will introduce you to skills and tools grounded in the practices of moral leadership. The following questions are based on the practices of moral leadership, and ask you to reflect on your own leadership journey.

7. For each moral leadership skill, please select the statement from 1-4 below that aligns most closely with where you stand today.

8. Think back to when you started the Fellowship. Is anything different about you? Has anything changed about the way you show up in the world?

9. Of your lessons learned from the Fellowship, which ONE takeaway is most relevant to your journey as a leader right now?

Reflections on the Fellowship curriculum:

10. a) Please select the option that most closely reflects your comfort with the content of the Fellowship.

If you didn’t cover a piece of content please select N/A.

	I don't understand this framework	I understand this framework at least partially	I feel confident applying this framework	I feel confident teaching this framework to others	Not applicable/We didn't cover this
Polarities Management
Authentic Voice
Adaptive Leadership
Immunity to Change
Good Society Readings
Power + Perspectives
Systems Thinking

10. b) We want to know whether these frameworks and tools have impacted your leadership development. Please select the best option against each statement below.

Impact Assessment

11. Have you changed jobs since the beginning of the Fellowship?

YesNo

Why did you make this change?

What is the name of the organisation or initiative where you are now working?

Is your project/organisation/initiative part of a bigger enterprise or of the government?

YesNo

If you have a website for your organisation/initiative, please include the web address here. Please leave blank if not applicable.

Which of the following best describes the model of the organisation, project or initiative?

Please specify:

How many full-time employees are involved in this organisation or initiative?

How many part-time employees or volunteers are involved in this organisation or initiative?

In which of the sectors below do you work?

Please specify:

Which title would describe best your role at your project, movement, social cause or social venture?

Read the following descriptions carefully. Which of the following best describes the type of work that you do?

You are bringing to life new initiatives or approaches within the organisation. Your focus is on designing, testing, incubating and implementing ideas that enable the organisation to pursue its purposeYou play an integral role in building the organisation. Your focus is building the internal blocks, systems & processes that enable the organisation to pursue its purpose

How many full-time team members do you manage, or are directly responsible for?

How many part-time team members or volunteers do you manage, or are directly responsible for?

b) Please tell us more about how your impact has grown and add metrics where possible:

12. How many people have benefited from your organisation, project or initiative since inception? Enter the value in numbers without points or commas. For example, if there were two hundred people, write 200.

13. a) How many people have benefited from your organisation, project or initiative in the last year in a direct way? Enter the value in numbers without points or commas. For example, if there were two hundred people, write 200.

b) How did you get to that calculation?

An approximate numberThe organisation in which I work rigorously measures the impact of what we doA third party has validated our impactOther

In what way?

15. Do you agree or disagree with the following statements?

	Agree	Disagree
The Acumen Fellowship has given me a better understanding of poverty on a local, national and global scale.
The Acumen Fellowship has enabled me to understand my role more effectively within a larger system
The Acumen Fellowship has better equipped me to resolve recurring problems in my workplace
The Acumen Fellowship has given me the conviction to stand up for my values
The Acumen Fellowship has given me the tools to publicly articulate my call to action in a compelling manner
The Acumen Fellowship has given me a global platform through which I can learn and share my learnings with a global community
The Acumen Fellowship has helped me build a wider and more diverse professional network
The Acumen Fellowship has given me the confidence to start a new organisation and/or a new project at my existing organisation
I have shared at least one of the tools of the Acumen Fellowship curriculum with my team and/or community
My ability as a leader changed because of my participation in the Fellowship
Concepts from Authentic Voice had effects on my social impact

If you chose 'Disagree' for any of the questions above, please tell us why (Optional)

Cohort and Community

16. Over the past 1 year, how often have you turned to a member of your cohort or the Acumen Academy Community for the following?

	Never	1-2 times	3-4 times	5+ times	10+ times
Emotional Support
Feedback on an idea, project or challenge
Peer Consulting
An introduction to a professional in their network
Opportunitites for collaboration

Please share if there are other ways Fellows have supported you (Optional):

Give one example to illustrate how other Acumen Fellows have supported you (Optional):

17. a) Looking ahead, what are your top of mind needs or challenges you anticipate or are facing?

17. b) Where might the Acumen Academy community support you in tackling these challenges?

18. Think about the people you've met from the beginning of your Fellowship (including your cohort-mates) and participating in Acumen Academy, how many new connections have you made within the community? Think of a "connection" as someone you had had an interaction with and would feel comfortable directly reaching out to over email, Slack, Whatsapp, phone, etc.

Number of Fellows or Foundry member I’ve connected with:

Number of Acumen staff (even if they no longer work at Acumen) I’ve connected with:

Thank you for completing the Fellows Programme end-of-year survey!

Before you submit, would you be open to having a 20-30 minute conversation about your responses with the Acumen Academy Team?

YesNo

What is the best way to contact you?

Your Fellowship Experience

Reflections on the Fellowship curriculum:

Impact Assessment