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Applications are open to student innovators, leaders, entrepreneurs, and dreamers who are driven to explore their passions and create ideas to make the world a better place.Unite
Once accepted, Scholars from across the world are convened at Watson University in Boulder for a full semester, starting Fall 2013.Study
Scholars enroll in Master Courses taught by a network of leading mentors, practitioners, thinkers, and entrepreneurs; complete award-winning training in empathy, creativity, resilience, teamwork and leadership; pilot and scale ideas to make the world a better place; and are eligible to receive academic credit.Advance
Students come away from Watson University with the self-permission, skills, experience and network to advance their ideas and pursue their passions.The professors
The professors of Watson University are the world's foremost leaders, entrepreneurs, and practitioners who come from across the world to teach short "Master Courses" to the Scholars. A few of the Master Course teachers are profiled below and can be sorted based on their areas of expertise using the buttons.
Master Course: Personal and social change: aligning our why, what and how.
Known for: Leader in the Nobel Peace Prize winning International Campaign to Ban Landmines
Based: Washington, DC
Master Course: Our energy future - reinventing fire, reinventing capitalism.
Known for: Founder of Rocky Mountain Institute, MacArthur Fellow, Time Magazine 100 Most Influential People.
Based: Snowmass, Colorado.
Master Course: The ABC's of the startup
Known for: Seasoned executive and serial international entrepreneur
Based: Boulder, Colorado
Master Course: Policy as a lever of social change
Known for: Policy Director to the Governor of Colorado, Founder Global Livingston Institute
Based: Denver, Colorado
Master Course: Leveraging global markets and local cultures to end poverty
Known for: Co-founder and executive director, BeadforLife
Based: Boulder, Colorado
Master Course: Finding connection in our lives and work.
Known for: Co-founder and CEO Unreasonable Institute, great hugs.
Based: Boulder, Colorado
Master Course: Scaling social enterprises globally.
Known for: Founder of Ashoka's Globalizer and the Amani Institute. Guest lecturer at over a dozen universities from Harvard to Paris' HEC Business School.
Based: Nairobi, Kenya
Master Course: Designing and leading flat, agile organizations
Known for: Growing a startup from 0 to 280 people in three years with only a handful of managers; creative titles
Based: London
