In our Collective Leadership Academy, we offer courses that bring together individuals, teams, and groups to develop the skills needed for effective collaboration and lasting change across sectors and stakeholders. Designed for professionals and change agents from all sectors: public administration, civil society, international organizations, academia, and business at any level of hierarchy.
For professionals and change agents from all backgrounds, regardless of hierarchy level from the public sector, civil society, international organizations, academia, and business.
The program develops the skills needed to initiate, lead, and facilitate complex change processes involving multiple actors, from aligning diverse stakeholders and clarifying roles to practicing shared leadership across systems, improving cross-sector cooperation, and sustaining reforms through implementation.
Browse the courses below and choose what fits your needs.
Not sure where to start? Our Head of Academy, Cholpon Aitakhunova, is happy to help you find the right path—no obligation, just a conversation.
Our courses develop your skills across three interconnected levels because lasting change requires working on yourself, the surrounding systems, and the processes that bring people together.
Self/Individual: Lead and facilitate from the insithe surrounding systems,de out: Deepen your personal capacity to lead, collaborate, and drive change, building the self-awareness and relational skills that make you effective across any context.
System: See the bigger picture: Learn to read the dynamics at play in complex collaborations, recognize what’s working, spot what’s holding things back, and find the right moments and places to make a difference.
Process: Turn intention into shared action: Design and facilitate co-creative change processes that build genuine ownership, keep diverse stakeholders aligned, and sustain momentum through to real results.
For those who are steering complex collaboration but feel something fundamental is missing. This foundational course gives you the Collective Leadership Compass, a personal leadership assessment, and a concrete action plan to start leading collective change more intentionally from day one.
3 days live + self-paced preparation
2,000 EUR in person, 1,500 EUR online
For those leading or supporting feminist change initiatives who need a leadership approach that puts feminist principles at the center of how they collaborate and co-create. This course introduces the Collective Feminist Principles as a practical tool for leading with purpose, building collective momentum, and advancing feminist change in complex, multi-stakeholder contexts.
3 days live plus self-paced preparation
2,000 EUR in person, 1,500 EUR online
For those working with partners who bring different interests, cultures, and expectations to the table, and where friction between them is slowing progress or threatening outcomes. This course gives you the Dialogic Change Model as a practical roadmap to plan, structure, and lead stakeholder collaboration from the first engagement all the way through to shared results.
3 days live plus self-paced preparation
2,000 EUR in person, 1,500 EUR online
For those who can design a collaboration process but find that once they are in the room, live dynamics get complicated: voices dominate, energy drops, or consensus feels out of reach. This advanced course trains you to facilitate group interactions with confidence so that every conversation becomes a genuine moment of shared leadership.
3 days live plus self-paced preparation
2,000 EUR in person, 1,500 EUR online
For those whose work goes beyond a single project or partnership and who are trying to move institutions, networks, or sectors toward lasting change at scale. This advanced course equips you with tools to map transformation networks, develop a Theory of Change, and build the kind of momentum that shifts systems rather than just managing them.
3 days live plus self-paced preparation
2,000 EUR in person, 1,500 EUR online
Built on 15+ years of experience, our open courses challenge assumptions and open new pathways for how you lead and collaborate. Each course is shaped by four interconnected aspects of learning:
The numbers are part of an upcoming research project by Dan Harris, PhD candidate, Victoria University of Wellington.
Improved or see the potential to improve collaboration
improved, supported, or created better ways to collaborate as a result of the program
experienced a personal change in who they are and how they approach their work
Open courses are renewed annually.
