A community for business leaders who are ready for what's ahead
Are you eager to drive change and navigate the future with positive impact?
You’re not alone. We understand how energizing and challenging this journey can be.
Why Join the Community?
Preparing for the future takes more than good ideas, it takes a trusted space to turn skills into action, with peers who share your ambition. That’s why we’ve built the Changemaker Companies Community – a space for business leaders to move from vision to real impact together.
Connect: Stay connected, not isolated: collaborate, exchange insights, and fresh perspectives with peers who understand your challenges and aspirations
Learn & Grow: Keep your purpose alive and move forward with the support you need while navigating the complexity of creating positive impact
Influence: Amplify your impact by inspiring others, shaping conversations, and driving meaningful change within your network and beyond.
What Is Our Community?
Across industries, leaders are navigating the complexity of applying purpose, innovation, and future uncertainty into their companies without a clear roadmap and peer support. This is where social innovation becomes important in shaping the business of tomorrow.
We are a peer-led global community of individuals, forward-looking corporate leaders, changing business from the inside out. Together, we’re contributing to companies where long-term business success is inseparable from positive social impact.
Our community offers the support and resources needed to develop leadership, navigate obstacles, and foster a culture of changemaking in business.
“As corporate leaders, there's no better place to learn than in a shared safe space, where we can come together to challenge each other on our sustainability efforts and enhance our positive impact on the world”
Tanja Vermeer
Associate Director Sustainability and Culture, Boehringer Ingelheim
"Given the increasing complexity of societal challenges, Changemaker Companies is a great space of inspiration, reflection and engagement. Sharing and receiving support from the community members helps you stay on course with your organization and with yourself."
Annette Jung
Impact Finance Lead, Philips
“The Guided Leadership Journey is where personal purpose meets collective power—a space to break silos, overcome resistance, and uncover the changemaker within. It has given me the clarity, courage, and community to lead with impact and embed sustainability as a core driver of transformation.”…
Virginie Le Barbu
Global Sustainability Director, Lenovo
“Ashoka community provides a platform to feel like I am never alone in fighting a battle with so much uncertainty and unknown. Other members of the community provide guidelines, advice, and experiences that I can learn and apply in my initiative.”
Daniel Cho
Sr Director, Head of Strategic Pricing CoE, Marketing CoE, Philips Healthcare
What We Offer
Community Gatherings
Connect at gatherings hosted by Ashoka or other partners to chat and share ideas. Expand your network, learn, and collaborate. See other open events here.
Community of Practice
Dive deep into focused topics, share experiences, and reflect on your personal and professional ambition to create a positive impact. Recent Community of Practices have explored themes such as activating employees to drive impact inside their organizations, systemic changes that businesses can lead in disaster response, building changemaking and sustainability skills, building a culture of ESG, and engaging clients on sustainability. New topics emerge as we respond to the needs and interests of our community members.
Within these groups, participants have:
Collaborated on joint sustainability initiatives across industries.
Exchanged practical tools to apply directly in their organizations.
Connected with social entrepreneurs tackling urgent challenges.
Supported each other in shaping new business models and leading change from within.
Guided Leadership Journey
Join a cohort of impact leaders and strengthen your own capacity to lead transformative change in your company. Learn from social entrepreneurs and changemakers solving global challenges. More about the program here.
Storytelling
Contribute to shape and disseminate stories of changemaking in the corporate space. You can find some here.
Who Should Join
This community is for experienced corporate professionals, whether already part of the Changemaker Companies network or new to Ashoka, who want to shape a more future ready and equitable economy through business.
If you’re leading change inside your company, or want to, this is your community.
