Learning Resources for Professionals
Learning Resources for Professionals
These resources are designed to support you throughout your experteering journey—and to help you bring new insights back into your full-time role with purpose and perspective.
Build your skills and showcase your impact with our self-paced courses — each designed to help you grow as a purpose-driven professional. Upon completion, you’ll earn a digital certificate from Accredible, which you can proudly share on LinkedIn to highlight your MovingWorlds experience.
Experteering Best Practices
Learn how to create real impact through skills-based volunteering with this self-paced course. You'll explore 13 key principles (like Human-Centered Design, cultural humility, and setting realistic goals) to help you contribute effectively, lead across cultures, and grow as a purpose-driven professional.
Partnering With Social Enterprises
Discover how your position — and your company — can support social enterprises in creating sustainable, market-driven impact. In this self-paced course, you'll learn what defines a social enterprise, key concepts like impact investing, and what frameworks and corporate trends (like social procurement) are shaping effective partnerships.
Explore our curated library of articles, guides, and stories to deepen your understanding of social impact, Human-Centered Design, and social intrapreneurship. Whether you're looking for inspiration or practical insights, these resources will help you keep learning and growing—during and beyond your experteering journey.
Learn Social Impact
What is a Social Enterprise?
A modern definition of social enterprise, along with examples and resources to help you learn more and get involved.
What is a Benefit Corporation?
Learn what sets B-Corps apart from traditional corporations, and how it's changing business as a force for good.
What is Impact Investing?
Learn exactly what impact investing is, different forms it can take, guiding principles, along with examples of funds, initiatives, and influencers to follow to stay on top of the latest impact investing trends.
What is Social Procurement – and Why Are So Many Corporate Leaders Talking About It?
Learn how social procurement differs from traditional corporate procurement, and the opportunity it presents for social enterprises to become more integrated into the global economy.
7 Leading Social Impact Frameworks to Add to Your Problem Solving Toolkit
7 frameworks to add to your problem-solving toolkit that can be combined, layered, and applied to different stages of the collaboration process to generate meaningful outcomes.
The Pioneer Gap: What It Is and How to Solve It
What the social enterprise pioneer gap is, why it matters, and how addressing it will help us reach the SDGs.
#FollowSoCent Series
Top blogs, news outlets, Twitter influencers, podcasts, & online course platforms to learn about social enterprise and stay updated on latest trends.
The 600-Year History of the Social Enterprise Movement
Social Enterprise has been a long time coming. Here's what you need to know about its past, and why the next 3 years are so important.
Learn Human-Centered Design
Human-Centered Design vs. Design Thinking
How they're different, and how to use them together to create lasting change.
An Introduction to Human-Centered Design
A detailed overview of the human-centered design process, including how it’s different from design thinking, real-world examples, and inspiring videos.
Resources & Methods to Help You Master HCD
We've put together a list of our 8 favorite tools and resources to guide you on your journey of learning and mastering human-centered design
Learn Social Intrapreneurship
Complete Guide to Corporate Social Intrapreneurship
Find inspiring and practical information about how you can launch and scale intrapreneurial initiatives from within your current company, no matter your role.
Advice from 20 Career Coaches on Finding More Meaning at Work
We asked 20 certified 'Designing Your Life' coaches for their best advice for someone seeking more meaning at work (without changing jobs.)
5 Steps to Scale Social Good Initiatives at Your Company
We've combined our lessons from our work helping some of the world's most admired brands build social impact programs with leading frameworks and resources to help you identify ideas, get buy-in, and create lasting change.
Key Takeaways From the First Global Research Study on Social Intrapreneurship
Yunus Social Business' "Business As Unusual" Report provides conclusive evidence of the positive impact of social intrapreneurship, as well as meaningful tools and recommendations for its implementation.
20 Must-Read Books for Intrapreneurs
Whether you’re an employee who wants to launch a new initiative to make your company more socially responsible, or a leader who wants to bring out the creative ideas of the team(s) you manage, these books will help you lead positive change from the inside (and overcome the naysayers who stand in the way.)
How to Find and Build a Great Relationship With a Mentor
The research on the power of mentorship is clear, but the process of actually finding and building a relationship with a mentor isn't. MovingWorlds partnered with Harvard Business Review in January 2020 to create a guide for more effective mentor relationships, which we elaborate on in this guide (including templates you can use)
What’s the Difference Between Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship?
A breakdown and handy infographic of the differences between entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship.