VV Visionaries Program 2026 for Women Leaders – YOA

Deadline: March 13, 2026

Applications are open for the VV Visionaries Program 2026. The program is a partnership between Vital Voices Global Partnership and the Estée Lauder Emerging Leaders Fund, the charitable fund of Estée Lauder, to assist the subsequent era of rising leaders who’re redefining management of their on a regular basis lives. Together with the Estée Lauder Emerging Leaders Fund, they goal to champion ladies leaders throughout numerous sectors, industries, and experiences who wish to create optimistic social affect of their communities and past.

When ladies advance, the world succeeds. We want leaders throughout each business and each neighborhood who use their energy, affect, and fervour to make optimistic change. And VV is aware of that girls’s management will speed up progress in communities, workplaces, boardrooms, and past.

VV Visionaries program individuals will: 

• Join a cohort of 50 ladies leaders dedicated to advancing their management for the better good.  
• Complete the Vital Voices Leadership Journey, a 7-week digital management growth course based mostly on learnings from over 25 years of labor with leaders from the world over.  
• Participate in interactive small-group discussions and peer studying
• Learn from visitor audio system together with Estée Lauder executives and Vital Voices community.  
• Share, be taught, and construct lasting connections with a cohort of fifty leaders from throughout the world.

Benefits

Through this system, individuals will:

• Gain a stronger understanding of what drives their management; achieve a deeper consciousness of methods to lead inclusive communities; and embrace taking daring actions to create a long-lasting affect. 
• Join the Vital Voices international community of greater than 47,000 ladies leaders from world wide with full entry to the community Hub with ongoing persevering with schooling and engagement alternatives.  
• After this system, individuals will obtain a certificates of completion.

Eligibility

• You establish as a lady
• You can be 18 years outdated by May 2026
• You are proficient in English
• You are the founder or co-founding father of a social sector group (NGO, basis, social affect initiative) OR
• You are the founder or co-founding father of a social enterprise (for revenue enterprise with specific social affect)
• You are at present not taking part in or have graduated from one other Vital Voices management program in 2025 or 2026.

Program Commitment

Participants are anticipated to:

• Actively take part throughout all 7 reside weekly digital periods on Thursday mornings (2 hours every), plus an further 1-2 hours per work for assignments and peer calls/discussions (3-4 hours weekly).
  • Participants ought to have not more than 2 absences to stay in good standing.
• Complete surveys all through this system and for as much as one yr after program completion, together with a wants evaluation survey, put up-session surveys, a put up-program survey, and a 12-month observe-up survey.
• Remain engaged with the Vital Voices community upon commencement

Application

Applications have to be written in English and accomplished and submitted by March thirteenth at 10 am ET. The estimated time to finish is half-hour.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to VV Visionaries Program.