College of Europe in Natolin

Université libre de Bruxelles

UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles

Head of Business Development at The Social Investment Toolkit

Belgium's 40 under 40

Alumni

SINGA Belgium

Board Member

Restoring the cultural and creative ecosystem in Belgium

The Nationa(a)l Artist e-Supermarket

Social Innovation Circle is a premier coaching platform for Social Innovators. Drawing on over a decade of experience advising social innovators, we support clients looking to build sustainable business models for impact and unlock funding from impact investors.

Our team has coached hundreds of entrepreneurs and impact investors worldwide through our courses, workshops and accelerators, helping them collectively raise over $250M in finance.

We provide capital and Fellowship grants to select clients through our investing arm, Social Innovation Capital.

Social Innovation Circle

Co-founder and Partner

Belgium’s 40 under 40 brings together 40 societal leaders below 40 to embark on a journey of personal and leadership development centred on meaning, societal responsibility, and impact.

I have the chance to connect with young leaders from different sectors and be part of a Community of 200+ leaders across generations aiming at increasing our societal impact.

Fellow

¬  Design tailor-made accelerator programmes to support social entrepreneurs in raising blended finance
 ¬  Consult with clients (social entrepreneurs) on their social finance and growth strategies

Chelwood Capital

Head Of Business Development

¬	Identify capacity and resources gap within the Ashoka Africa team
¬	Design and deliver training workshops to build local capacity
¬	Manage partnership with JP Morgan to deliver a mentoring programme for social entrepreneurs globally
¬	Manage Ashoka’s Social Investment Accelerator in partnership with Nestlé and the Swiss Cooperation

Ashoka

Capacity Building Officer

-Lead the search and selection of the next Ashoka Fellow in Belgium
-Design and implement a support strategy for the Fellowship community at Ashoka Belgium
-Manage and curate corporate partnerships 
-Design and deliver support programmes to help early stage social entrepreneurs' scale their work
-Manage the Ashoka Belgium team

Senior Programme Manager

¬	Design and deliver a media and communications strategy for Ashoka in the UK
¬	Develop new partnerships with media outlets and stakeholders to share the work of Ashoka
¬	Manage the media strategy for Ashoka’s global partnership with the LEGO Foundation
¬	Design a unique learning experience for corporate partners and business leaders (The Changemaker Journey welcomed amongst other guests Unilever CEO Paul Polman, Ella’s Kitchen Founder Paul Lindley, the Lastminute.com founders on a journey to experience change at their doorstep)

Senior Communications Associate & Media Manager

Documentary project to help young people become active change agents

¬	Produce an educational documentary profiling social entrepreneurs from around the world
¬	Develop partnerships with researchers and universities (HEC Paris, Solvay Business School, Vlerick Business School) to support the development of the educational documentary
¬	Promote and spread the documentary to universities (sold to amongst others : Oxford Said Business School, Cornell University, HEC Paris, Solvay Business School, etc)

The DVD and online platform features 15 creative social businesses lead but millennials. Each video is complemented by a Business Analysis and a Technical Note. The DVD has been sold to over 40 universities around the world including Oxford's Said Business School, Cornell University, Imperial College and many more. 

The GoYoung project is officially endorsed by Ashoka, works in partnership with the Vlerick Business School and the founders have been selected as Global Shapers by the World Economic Forum.

Pauline Verhaeghe