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National Innovators Initiative

Young Fellows

Innovator-In-Residence Program

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A 12-Month Fellowship & Super Career Accelerator
for Philippines's most promising student leaders

LAUNCH HI-IMPACT VENTURES

New products, services, models, campaigns, etc. that speak to who you are and what you care about. Learn the supreme force of innovation by doing it.

MASTER THE SUPERPOWER-6

Rigorous, regular practice and application of the World Economic Forum's 6 most critical skills to lead hi-impact change in business and society.

RISE TO THE HIGHEST LEVELS

Earn credentials according to practical skills challenges and real-world innovation outputs you complete. Gain access to corporate, startup and investor partners.

LIVE LIFE'S SUPREME LESSON

to live your deepest truth and so fulfil your highest potential and greatest promise - for lifelong joy, meaning, success and impact.

Top 8 Program Highlights

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5VC FITNESS
Each Fellow will methodically grow their 5 Tiers of Virtuous Capital, thereby enabling Peak Performance in 3-month cycles and emerging from the 12-month Fellowship as the highest performing young talent ready to enter the workplace.
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12-Month Runway
The Fellowship is designed to fit even the busiest academic and extra-curricular loads - by giving each Fellow plenty of flexibility to complete program requirements on their own time and pace.
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Weekly Community of Practice via Zoom
Fellows gather once a week via Zoom to learn with each other, tackle real-world problems and apply key lessons to live case studies they are working on. Fellows have 12 months to attend at least 12 of these weekly Zooms in order to complete program requirements.
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Step-by-Step Guided App
Fellows complete requirements on their own time and pace via the YF-IIR 5VC app, which guides each Fellow step-by-step as they launch their own innovations, master the Superpower-6 and nurture their GPS personal navigation system for how to live a life of joy, meaning and impact.
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Credentials & Distinctions
Fellows earn unique credentials, badges and distinctions based on their actual work. Thus, their bios will include a track record of hi-impact innovation, thought leadership and published materials, TED-type speaking engagements and a digital presence that will make their CVs a clear cut above the rest.
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Full Scholarship for Student Leaders
Supported by Ignite House of Innovation and our network of leading business, investor and public sector leaders -- we will ensure that Manila's most promising student leaders will be part of our 12-Month Fellowship, regardless of financial status.
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Change the World, Inclusively
The gap between rich and poor is first of all a gap in empathy and connection. In YF, Fellows & Scholars from rich and poor backgrounds work collaboratively to launch and support each other's hi-impact innovations, while expanding cross-sector empathy and networks critical to making lasting change happen.
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Media & Storytelling
Fellows engage in guided journal entries that catalogue their journey of thought leadership, personal growth and impact. They create a track record of speaking engagements and hi-impact digital presence, while mastering how to tell their own story.
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    The Ni2 Young Fellows Innovator-In-Residence Program (YF-IIR) extends the National Innovators Initiative (to power 100,000 citizen innovators) into the most critical juncture of Filipino society: our next generation of leaders as they go through their most formative college years and onto the real world and careers.

    The YF-IIR program engages high-potential student leaders in year-long fellowships focused on launching hi-impact innovations and mastering (by weekly practice and application to live case studies) the World Economic Forum’s 6 most critical skills needed for shaping change and impact in the future of work.

    The core foundation of the 52-week Fellowship is to nurture Young Fellows in their lifelong capacity for self awareness and personal growth - to keep rising to their highest levels of vision and impact, including entry into the career of their choosing and/or starting hi-impact ventures, while rooting them to stay true to their deepest truths (who they are and values they stand for, their authentic gifts, what they genuinely care about, etc) as unique individuals.

    Our mission is to graduate Fellows who will live their deepest truths and so fulfill their highest potential - for lifelong joy, meaning, success and impact. We fully expect that our Young Fellows will change the future of our country.

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    NATIONAL INNOVATORS INITIATIVE

    To power 100,000 Filipino Innovators by 2023

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    01

    The Empathy Project 101

    TEP is The Empathy Project, a 60-minute conversation between 2 people guided by digital flashcards served up by the TEP app.
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    Reasons Why We Need It

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    The Empathy Project practices us in the art and science of walking in the shoes of another, understanding and connecting with them, not just from the narrow view of a transactional customer, but from the far more expansive view of a whole human being: what are their pains, needs, wants, desires, aspirations, as well as doubts and fears?

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    This more expansive view based on Empathy is the foundation of all good solutions (not to mention all good relationships) and gives you a deeper well of insight from which to draw up out-of-the-box innovations.

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    Beyond Empathy, TEP also nurtures your sense of Compassion – not just knowing how the pain of others, but wanting to do your part in healing that pain. Compassion, in turn, increases your commitment and grit to solve the problem – because you care.

    How It Works

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    WORK AND INCOME
    Whatever you do and experience in the national innovators initiative isn't just about launching new products and creating business impact there is something much more deeply personal for all of you, which is it will accelerate your success in the world of work. Meaning the job options you have, the career options you have and the other side is your earning and income potential.
    ANDRE YAP4:57
    TEP Highlights
    TEP brings back the truth out of the people. The conversation brings the focus back to the person and allows them to better prioritize the things that will make them happy. It is very impactful - especially to those who are not self-aware
    MICHAEL 26, esports coach
    TEP Highlights
    It's something I would use to understand my customers . This is also a good way for leaders and teams to see who should end working on specific projects that they actually care about. Overall, it's very nice and I haven’t seen anything like this.
    PETER, VP Banking
    From each person I talk to, there's a different barrier to starting their career and myself and my team are the only ones who know of these kinds of barriers and who better than us to find the opportunities to solve those problems for them and remove those barriers to make entry into their careers easier and a lot better for them, especially that this pandemic is fair to these people who put in a lot of effort to finish their school for work and career and it's all falling and crashing upon their heads. And just knowing that we understand all these different perspectives and kinds of barriers, that puts us in the right place for us to help them and who better to help them than people who definitely walked in their shoes.
    KAHLIL CALA51:10
    In the beginning of our project, Kahili and I utilized the TEP with our friends, recent graduates. And that conversation led us to observe that for our generation, a college degree may not enough to get into the industry they want to pursue. Therefore, most fresh graduates would focus on getting a Master’s or beef up their resumes by taking online courses. Through TEP, it allowed us to cultivate and develop a service where we could develop the resume and the experiences of our college and fresh graduate stakeholders, and by doing so it will increase the opportunities to pursue the industries they want to pursue. And we couldn't have done that without being equipped with the right questions which the empathy project essentially does.
    MARK RODRIGUEZ54:04
    A few months ago, I competed in this team business pitching competition for a social enterprise. We kept on struggling and pivoting to different ideas of creating [services and products]. The way we took our thought process when I look back makes me cringe. Rather than being empathetic first and finding the main problem, we decided to create our product then find the problem. Because of this, we couldn’t find the main issue until later in the said competition.
    ENZO BUSTAMANTE45:47
    In TEP [it is introduced that] there are different rooms of life, (health, family, around 15 in total) and you get to listen to people talk about different rooms of their life, how they start their day, what they look forward, what they like and don't like and when you hear these stories you will realize the needs want pains of these people and sobra siya nag relate to how I wanted to touch the lives of OFWs holistically. TEP did not only expand my scope of who I wanted to help but also deepen it.
    JOANNA ALBERTO25:15
    The way I’ve seen it work, at least or this corporate partner of ours was that when they were given the view of the customer, or this person named [camille], what she really wanted across the different facets of her life, [which allowed them to] look behind them and [ask] “hey, do I really have the tools, technology to help that. And they came up with several new products that they probably would not have thought of bringing into the market if they weren’t presented with [showing] “hey Camille is like this, and it’s not just this concern she is worried about, it’s all these other things, would you be able to service that and from a business standpoint that’s important if you’re looking to stay relevant. [In summary] TEP has reinforced my commitment. Three R’s right, “reconnecting, reacquainting, and reinforcing my commitment because now I feel strongly around these same issues my friend Camille had to go through and I wanna be able to help that, and this dove-tails to mission and purpose.
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    LAUNCHPAD 101

    Launchpad is an app that guides us step-by-step through 12 hurdles as we launch customer-centric, market-driven innovations fast, lean and agile. These innovations can be new products, services, solutions, projects, systems, processes, workflows, models, campaigns – anything that makes life better for someone else.

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    Reasons Why We Need It

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    Launchpad practices us in the elusive art and science of human-centered design thinking and agile sprints that everyone preaches about but very few people know how to apply in practice.

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    Launchpad helps us birth new solutions, from nothing to an idea to rapid prototypes and iterations, all the way to minimum viable products.

    How It Works

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    Greatness is a matter of practice and what the launchpad does in these twelve hurdles that guide you step-by-step is that they make you practice over and over until everything is muscle memory.
    ANDRE YAP12:05
    The first few hurdles in the launchpad are built entirely on this whole idea that we call the Empathy Project and if applied correctly, it can change everyone’s view on someone they thought that they knew.
    MIGUEL ARANAZ15:12
    The Guild is by far my favorite project ever since I started doing launchpads because this time, the target stakeholder is myself. I used to be in their shoes and the target stakeholders that we’re targeting right now? I used to be them and honestly, I’d even argue that I still am them to this day. This whole idea of walking in their shoes became so much easier for me because I literally am those people.
    GERALD ORIGENES23:50
    Putting imperfect things out there and testing them allows you to see if they really resonate with the target stakeholder and if they also address their motivations and needs. Although we’re all similar in certain aspects, there are nuances to how we feel about the things we need.
    ANN GERON32:38
    It really takes a lot of courage and humility to go through each of our tasks because I’ve always been a stickler for things when it comes to work. I used to teach leadership in the evasion industry and they would always say that failing to plan is planning to fail. I guess what I’m trying to say is that we should always expect our work to have feedback because that’s how we really build innovative ideas.
    JOANNA ALBERTO34:30
    We spent a few months finalizing a playbook to approach a certain school. We thought it would be a simple step-by-step process because of the playbook we developed but we soon realized that every school is completely different. You could already guess that each university has their own separate thing that makes them interested in Ni2 and we had to adjust accordingly.
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    DAILY FLIGHTS 101

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    Learning 4.0 operationalized at scale!. Learn based on live business cases across a diversity of people, teams, industries, markets and a variety of challenges and solutions involved.
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    Launchpad helps us birth new solutions, from nothing to an idea to rapid prototypes and iterations, all the way to minimum viable products.

    How It Works

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    One time, our mentors connected us with business owners so that we could learn from them and hopefully develop the skills needed to pitch our business proposal. After leaving those sessions, I honestly felt pretty good about myself because I now knew exactly where to go.
    ENZO BUSTAMANTE8:32
    We once brought someone to a Daily Flight doing consultancy work for this manufacturing firm and she kept mentioning how stuck they were because no one was responding to the product they made. When we brought her in to do the hurdling, one thing I noticed was that they skipped a very important step and that was getting to know their customers. This honestly validated in my head the sort of discipline that I’ve established in my time in Ni2 and that was to always remember who I’m building this project for.
    AILEEN GUTIERREZ11:20
    A week ago I met with a contractor and designer and the first thing I noticed was that they first focused on the stakeholder first before even starting their initial design. Can you imagine that they were able to develop this mindset just based on all of the Daily Flights that they have attended prior? You really have to start with the stakeholder in mind if you want to create a design that can satisfy the needs of your consumer.
    JOANA ALBERTO17:43
    I get to learn from these business cases week after week that I never would have learned in college since I never studied business or entrepreneurship. All of these things were new to me and that’s what immediately drew my interest towards these Daily Flights.
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    SUPERPOWER-6 101

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    Reasons Why We Need It

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    Learning 4.0 operationalized at scale!. Learn based on live business cases across a diversity of people, teams, industries, markets and a variety of challenges and solutions involved.

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    Practice them like Lebron James – that’s the only thing that matters is the frequency of reps.

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    Self-awareness to know what I do well, how I practice and apply in various scenarios and where I need to put extra effort to get better. This is an O/S for lifelong Skills & Growth, with direct impact on Work & Income upward mobility.

    How It Works

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    Having a good looking CV and even being a valedictorian will definitely help you land a good job in the corporate world, but if you can’t manage a project well, own your role responsibly, and even work well with others, you won’t last long at all in whatever job you landed.
    ENZO BUSTAMANTE8:30
    Just like any sport, there’s a lot that you have to think of in terms of positioning and where you want to be, and sometimes, it just happens suddenly without you even knowing what just happened. That’s what the SuperPower Six [highlights] and that’s being self-aware of how you made that success and what brought you there in the first place.
    OJ CRUZ10:57
    Juggling Ni2 with my full-time job teaches me to prioritize since I’m given responsibilities that I’ve committed myself to and I take them on knowing that I have to commit to it till the very end.
    ANN GERON19:45
    How I use the superpowers is not by defining what I have but what I currently fail or suck at. Like owning the Project, or Sprinting to Market, and maybe MApping zones of Opportunities. This clearly lays out a list that I need for me to get better on. From there it's just figuring out how I get better on it and the how is just a matter of going back to Ni2 and doing BTL cycles and TEP.
    GERALD ORIGENES21:35
    [Andre] You did call Ni2 as an operating system and the biggest challenge that I personally had to face was how do I operationalize value or competencies that you need to achieve the objective of the organization. The thing I liked about the Superpower 6 was that they are very actionable. And that's the reason why we were able to translate them into specific elements and features of Ni2 whether it's in the app or in the daily flight experiences that's one of the major differences..
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    MARKETPLACE 101

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    It’s not what you know, it’s who you know – but how do you methodically on a daily basis expand the network of who you know? MP does this for you 24/7/365 – even while you’re sleeping. Data and algo to give you smart recoms (ala Amazon) on people you should meet, jobs and gigs you should look into, collaborations and partnerships you should explore, etc.

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    Practice them like Lebron James – that’s the only thing that matters is the frequency of reps.

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    Self-awareness to know what I do well, how I practice and apply in various scenarios and where I need to put extra effort to get better. This is an O/S for lifelong Skills & Growth, with direct impact on Work & Income upward mobility.

    How It Works

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    Being able to talk to people with similar values but who also approach problems from different points of views allows Marketplace to give us several opportunities to meet people that we can collaborate with. For example, when we’re working on a certain project and another group of people happen to be doing something that can help contribute to our work, we can collaborate and connect through the Marketplace.
    MIGUEL ARANAZ3:55
    Imagine an application where 24 hours, 7 days a week even while you’re sleeping or doing something else, there’s an algorithm searching the network of participants to match you with people, projects, and even businesses that you should collaborate with.
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    GPS 101

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    Reasons Why We Need It

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    Joy, meaning, fulfillment

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    Live our deepest truth and so fulfill our highest potential and greatest promise – not just for success, but for joy, meaning, and impact.

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    Personal navigation for life. When the road is dark and rough and you want to give up, GPS will keep you going where you really want to go.

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    When you are able to live your deepest truths, you then are able to fulfill your highest potential and your greatest promise. Conversely, if you are living your mediocre truth, then you will only be able to fulfill mediocre potential, fake truths (like so many swayed by social media, and by others) amount to you living your lowest potential.
    ANDRE YAP4:10
    I've always been a self-aware person. I'd like to think that I've always known my purpose in life ever since I was young. And I was surprised to realize when I was going through my GPS session with Joanna, there were more parts of me I didn't know. The reason why I’m so passionate about helping people is because of my pains in life - I've realized that all the choices I’ve made, even when I was young, all point to my purpose which is to help people. And it was only when I was asked about these things that I realized that. I don't think I would have realized that I subconsciously do these things.
    ANN GERON29:53
    I own a barbershop in Marikina, and with regard to the pandemic, it is difficult to be a small business owner at this time, let alone to run and manage a barbershop right now]. The pandemic really woke me up and made me realize that I have this huge responsibility, to lead my four employees, who are all the breadwinners of their family. I’m not only taking care of 4 people but 16 women and children. These circumstances pushed me to keep trying to understand how I can make my barbershop successful in this time. This pandemic has really pushed me to improve in terms of; “how can I make my services successful throughout this pandemic? How do I serve clients better to ensure revenue and profit?” All so that I can tell my employees “I can take care of your families, I can provide for your families, just trust me.”
    MARK RODRIGUEZ8:25
    My purpose and what I want is this - to believe in what I’m doing. I want to be successful and sometimes I feel like I can do something bigger. I want to believe that what I’m doing can create some good, create impact for other people. That’s why I really resonate with this feature in Ni2. I feel good knowing that I’m also helping others. So in the Guild right now, I’m helping them adapt to this new environment since Ni2 can be a lot to absorb and I want to ensure that their experience is as smooth as possible and that’s what keeps me going - knowing that I’m capable of helping people too.
    ENZO BUSTAMANTE14:06
    My dream is to learn languages and bring that expertise into a corporate setting. I want to bring that dream and purpose into my Genius and maybe someday become a bridge for people and make them feel that what we’re talking about is meaningful, to communicate in a corporate setting in their own language. So working in Ignite and practicing the ability to talk to people in a corporate setting really helps. And since I’m studying language on the side, I think in the future, I’ll be able to practice more of that service, and more of that purpose.
    OJ CRUZ45:50
    GPS is a very introspective exercise. Throughout the session, it helped me remember my “why”. Bakit ba ako nagigising sa umaga? Which was my tendency to put others before myself and to have a positive impact on others and I live by that because I want to reduce the pains of the people I serve and I hope that can be alleviated in my service in Ignite, NI2, and in the Guild.
    CHINO FLORES38:16
    The thing that I've seen in terms of GPS’ impact is (1) people who thought they can’t do something, get these aha moments na kaya ko pala to. I always encounter people before going on this GPS journey - they already have their limiting beliefs, like “Aileen di ko kaya yan.” But when they get into this process to stop, think, and to ask themselves these three fundamental questions, they would apply that into the work they do. They would come back and say “ I did it” and that’s empowering for them. GPS has an addictive property because the moment they taste it, they will try to dig deeper and try something else that compels them to action and realize this aspect of self-discovery in GPS.
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    PEAK/X 101

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    Reason Why We Need It

    The peak of every human experience arises from personal truths drawn from these experiences. These deep truths do not remain in the experience. They come alive in everything else that we do, unleashing each of us to navigate around life’s challenges, to keep finding our ways forward – be it towards peak performance, peak leadership and transformation, or peak wellness.

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    The National Innovators Initiative is not just an ordinary innovation program that teaches people how to become an innovator. Ni2 takes care of people holistically while bringing out their innovator spirit. And this spirit comes in the form of three statements: [I care, I can, I will, Nothing will stop me because I found my answer to who am I and why I am here]. Innovation is super fast-paced and chaotic. We need to be humble, courageous, generous, agile and resilient. Throwing old habits and embracing new ones is very challenging. That’s why it’s important to take care of oneself, to keep us centered. Focused and mindful everyday. That is what Peak X takes care of. We want to help you practice caring for at a whole new level by developing new habits to allow you to be in control of your thoughts, manage stress and anxiety so you can be at peak performance.
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    A really simple and easy test, requires only that you be honest, most of all with yourself (or if you're a parent, with your children).

    Watch this 60-second video, Here's To The Crazy Ones, from Apple. If it resonates with you and makes something deep inside you nod in agreement because this is what you want for yourself (or for your children), then congratulations - you are one of us and we will welcome you as an Ni2 Fellow.

    Open nationwide to all PH-based 18-24 year olds, PH1000 is a full-scholarship career accelerator that runs in 100-day cycles as part of the Guild100 Supercourse.

    PH1000 does not look at grades, courses, schools or socio-economic background. PH1000 is 100% merit based - we want to shatter glass ceilings and give every Filipino equal opportunity to fulfill our highest potential and greatest promise.

    In lieu of so much outdated and biased measures of career success (and recruiting), we look at participants' actual performance vs measures of innovation, agility, creative problem-solving, grit and resilience, self-awareness, and capacity to learn and grow fast - all the critical skills that are so badly needed yet so badly lacking in today’s workforce.

    All these measures are integrated as activities, exercises and challenges in our Guild100 Career & OJT Accelerator, which includes access to regional and national innovation challenges.