Shaping Future Leaders.
Shaping Future Business.
Choose the program that best matches your role and the impact you want to make.
Social
Entrepreneurship
For social entrepreneurs beyond the start-up phase.
Social Intrapreneurship
For impact pioneers who drive change within organisations.
Reshaping Your
Future
For experienced founders who want to redefine their direction.
We Shape The Future
Community
Grow together with entrepreneurs and professionals.
Work on your organisation and your leadership, deepen what your role as a leader requires of you, apply academic insights in your own practice, and learn in small groups with and from other experienced entrepreneurs and professionals.
WHO WE ARE
Shaping Future Leaders. Shaping Future Business.
Academic program in collaboration with Utrecht University.
For over 15 years, we have been helping entrepreneurs and professionals develop their leadership, grow their organizations, and increase their societal impact. In collaboration with Utrecht University, we connect academic insights with real-world challenges and the knowledge and experience of participants. Alongside knowledge and skills, we deliberately create space for personal growth: reflecting on what is truly at play, sharing experiences, and viewing yourself and your leadership from new perspectives.
Academic insights. Real issues. Personal depth.
300+
Entrepreneurs and professionals learned with and from each other at We Shape the Future.
8/10
For 15 years, participants have been rating the programs an average of 8.
Since 2010
The longest-running Dutch executive programme for social entrepreneurs with growth ambitions.
Academic
program
with UU certificate
Developed and implemented in collaboration with Utrecht University.
What you can expect
You bring challenges from your own organisation and explore them through new knowledge, different perspectives, and your own experience.
In intervision, coaching, and personal exchange, you go beyond the content: there is space to share, spar with others, and explore what new insights mean for you and your leadership, in an environment where trust is central.
Why
We Shape the Future
Social ambitions require more than good ideas. They also require strong entrepreneurship, a healthy organisation, and leaders willing to keep examining their own choices and assumptions.
That's why at WSTF you learn from academics, experts, and coaches – and from each other. Everyone brings their own knowledge, experience, and perspectives.
That is what We Shape the Future stands for: the courage to lead, the ambition to keep learning, and the strength to shape the future together.
“True leaders are those who know the way, go the way and show the way.”
15+ years of experience
Since 2010, we have developed programmes for social entrepreneurs and professionals working on social change.
Practice-based learning
Challenges from your own practice and your individual ambitions are the starting point for developing yourself and your organization.
Leadership & community
Strengthen your leadership and learn with and from others. Even after the program, you'll keep meeting each other through the community, supporting each other, and going deeper.
Academic foundation
Current academic insights, developed and applied in collaboration with Utrecht University and the Chair of Social Entrepreneurship.
We Shape The Future Community
Social entrepreneurship is top-level sport. That's why the We Shape the Future Community keeps being a place to learn, brainstorm, and delve deeper together even after your program.
27
Aug
AI Leadership Lab
Put AI to work in your organisation. Automate repetitive processes and build AI agents for everyday tasks, from email and planning to social media.
17
Nov
Harvard Masterclass: The Collaboration Dilemma
Work with a well-known Harvard case on a familiar dilemma: how do you collaborate when parties have different interests but still need each other to achieve results?
01
Dec
From Hard Work to an Organisation That Works
Explore where your organisation still depends too much on you — and what it takes to change that. Work with your own case to decide where your energy should go.
26
Jan
New Year's drinks at Tover in Utrecht
New Year's drinks at the Tover social enterprise in Utrecht. Kick off the new year with a festive gathering, share your resolutions with fellow social entrepreneurs, and ring in the year together!
