Real life makes a better classroom than any room we could build.
You can teach adaptability, or you can put someone somewhere that requires it.
We curate learning journeys that take leaders into real situations, not case studies about someone else's world. Leaders work with real communities, clients and commercial challenges, where the answers are not known in advance. And that changes everything. Instead of talking about leadership, people have to lead - and then confront what they have learned about themselves, their team and the system around them.
Who tends to call us
- Organisations that want leadership development to leave the building, literally
- Leaders who learn by doing and want more than classroom learning
- Teams building adaptive leadership capability for genuinely unfamiliar conditions
How it works
- 1Choose the stretch. We identify the real-world context that will develop the capability you care about.
- 2Create the challenge. We build a live piece of work with a real community, organisation or internal customer on the other side.
- 3Learn in action. Leaders work on the challenge while we help them notice the patterns, assumptions and choices showing up in real time.
- 4Reflect and apply. We turn an extraordinary experience into something people can use on an ordinary Tuesday.
What is included
- Bespoke field challenges built around a community, cause or commercial context
- Local and global immersion projects developed with partners rather than staged scenarios
- Leadership development through real work in unfamiliar conditions
- Structured reflection throughout the experience
- Real business projects that can create measurable value while developing people
We have developed more than 200 bespoke learning journeys, including work with agricultural co-operatives in India and impact enterprises in Brazil.
For HSBC, real commercial projects used as leadership development generated an average of USD 500,000 of new income per project.
If you want people to lead differently, give them something real to lead.
Design a field challenge