Walburga Frölich

Categories: Alumni, Ashoka Fellows, Central-Eastern Europe Region, Experts+Speakers, Social Entrepreneurs

Walburga Fröhlich has founded a kindergarten, a center for the development of innovative social projects, the social enterprises atempo and capito, and an internationally active company for understandable communication and AI. The latter is among the first social enterprises in Austria with an international AI-based business model. With her team, she combines social impact with technology, economic sustainability with inclusion, and volunteers in various social entrepreneurship networks for an improved ecosystem for social entrepreneurs and female CEOs.

Walburga Fröhlich has won numerous awards in her entrepreneurial career, including the EU Prize for Women Innovators, making her the only Austrian to achieve this honor so far. She holds a master’s degree in social work and social management (Fachhochschule Joanneum Graz) and is certified in Integrative Supervision and Organizational Development (Fritz Perls Institute Düsseldorf). By the way, the organizations she founded mentioned above still exist today, some of them for more than 20 years