Ashoka Fellow Andreas Heinecke about social business modelling against all odds

The Ashoka Visionary Program Module 2, Impact & Social Business Modeling is about applying an impact model and impact- oriented business plan for strategy & organizational development. Andreas Heinecke talked about Social Business Modelling against all odds.

Andreas Heinecke is the founder and CEO of Dialogue Social Enterprise Ltd. He is the first Ashoka Fellow in Western Europe, and member of the World Economic Forum. Andreas is a recipient of various internaional awards, holds a phD in Philosophy and a professorship for social business at the European Business School.

The core business of DSE is to employ disabled people on a global scale and to organize exhibitions and business workshops. The flagship is Dialogue in the Dark, a pitch-dark exhibition, in which blind guides lead visitors in small groups of visitors through rooms replicating nature and a city or take them on a boat trips and end up for a drink in a bar, all in the dark. Through a social franchise system Dialogue in the Dark could create work for 10.000 blind people in 40 countries and erode the social borders of more than 10 million people.