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🏛️ 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲? Last month, we brought together #VisionaryProgram alumni and current participants from the public sector for an honest conversation about changemaking from inside institutions and how the program has helped them. Here are some powerful testimonials 🔥 🏢 VP tools actively embraced across an entire ministry team 👇 💬 "I keep going back to the materials from the VP. All the people within the ministry I've worked with have embraced those tools." Michael Hagelmüller, Austrian Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health & Consumer Protection 🌱 A leadership module that rippled into a community of managers — and a podcast with nearly 100 episodes for their grantees 👇 💬 "The module on leadership was totally life-changing. I can definitely see the roots of this change in the Visionary Program." Marketa Pechouckova, Department Director, Czech Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs 💡 A national funding program redesigned using VP's scaling frameworks. A first for AWS 👇 💬 "It's not only classical funding anymore. We implemented a lot of tools I got familiar with at the Visionary Program." Sabine Pümpel, Austria Wirtschaftsservice 🤝 As a current participant, Heidemarie knows firsthand how hard it is to connect across ministries in the public sector, and how much changemakers need spaces like this to find each other 👇 💬 "There are so many topics overlapping. It would be very good to work together but I miss platforms and networks. For changemakers it would be very important to have cross-ministerial exchanges." Heidemarie Meißnitzer, Austrian Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service & Sport 🙏 Thank you all for your openness. Curious to learn more? You can find link to full recording of the session in the comments! 🗓️ This May we're hosting focused conversations for specific groups of changemakers: Development Cooperation, Media, Philanthropists and a General call. Find your session and registration link in the comments👇 📍 Vienna | October 2026 - April 2027 | Applications open for the 12th edition! Olga Shirobokova