An immersive professional experience
The School of Ultimate Leadership (SOUL) is a first-of-its-kind leadership development institution in India. It is a privately funded institution to nurture leaders in the field of public service, such as political leaders, public policy leaders, and social sector leaders. The SOUL campus will soon be commissioned in Gandhinagar, next to GIFT City.
The SOUL Centres of Public Excellence (SCOPE) will comprise multiple centres to examine important questions in politics, public policy, and behavioural sciences. The centres will collectively deliver leadership programs for current and future political leaders, and government officials in policy, institutional, and implementation roles.
The SCOPE Fellowship is a three-year on-campus program for individuals with a fire within. Fire to go deep into examining political and social patterns, trends, beliefs, and norms that shape human behaviours. Fire to help participants reflect on human behaviours, help them develop the ability to demonstrate leadership in their work, and drive leadership throughout the system.
The SCOPE Fellow will preferably be in the age group of 30 to 37, be flooded with questions they want to examine about politics and society, be willing to go deep into examining those questions, and test the emerging ideas with various program participants in SOUL. The test with participants will determine whether the ideas work, and repeated requests to engage on those ideas will demonstrate their value. Each fellow has to do both: examine and execute those ideas.
SOUL will offer
An environment to unleash one's imagination and dive deep into the areas of:
Politics and its practices
Making politics accessible, achievable and aspirational
Public policy and its practices
Education, skills, public health, and other emerging fields
Data analytics and insights
Qualitative, quantitative and mixed
Behavioural sciences
Inner transformation to demonstrate and drive system change
Indian value systems
Insights from various traditions and cultures of India
An enabling ecosystem consisting of:
Access to world-class resources
Small, cohesive, and committed team to facilitate access to resources one needs
A culture of deep inquiry
Exchange of ideas, and nurturing
Pathways to grow
Within SOUL and beyond
SOUL will also offer
Who we're looking for...
Individuals in the age group 30 to 37 years with public-oriented work or research experience
Individuals driven by a question they cannot ignore, willing to do patient and demanding work, and eager to build something that matters beyond their own career
Independent thought, intellectual honesty, and the courage to examine one's own mind and belief systems
Willing to explore uncharted career pathways within and beyond the institution
Couples are welcome to apply, provided they are independent thinkers
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SOUL is India's first-of-its-kind institution dedicated to shaping individuals to lead with integrity, altruism, and excellence in the public sphere.
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