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The Founders Playbook
Cuts Through the Noise
Hosted by ChangeSchool LDN, this is the definitive podcast for entrepreneurs and innovators taking breakthrough ideas from the lab to real-world impact. We go beyond the headlines to explore the play-by-play realities of building a deep tech venture, with a focus on university spin-outs and the emerging innovation scenes in the rest of the world outside Silicon Valley.
The Founders Playbook cuts through the noise.
Hosted by ChangeSchool LDN, this is the definitive podcast for entrepreneurs and innovators taking breakthrough ideas from the lab to real-world impact. We go beyond the headlines to explore the play-by-play realities of building a deep tech venture, with a focus on university spin-outs and the emerging innovation scenes in the rest of the world outside Silicon Valley.
Entrepreneurship Education requires knowledge to action.
Our education practices have been recognised as world leading in 2025.
We received the Global EFMD Silver Award for Ecosystem Development.
Come partner with us for our award-winning expertise to inspire your next generation of entrepreneurs into action.
Award winning delivery
ChangeSchool, in partnership with King's College London won Silver Award with the European Foundation of Management Development (EFMD) and their Excellence in Practice Awards in the category of Talent Development the Silver award
We have built an entrepreneurial mindset for promising innovators across the globe to help them commercialise their innovation, create impact and build sustainable ventures.
We create “entrepreneurial universities” that generate a pipeline of translational research, start-ups and spinouts.
You can see case studies of projects in the next section.
Training and Mentoring Entrepreneurs
Innovators are rarely entrepreneurs, so valuable technologies fail to make an impact on society and their SDG aspirations. ChangeSchool train and mentor technology entrepreneurs from 17 countries to shift their mindsets, build sustainable business and launch innovations to market. We also help build extensive international networks growth and scaling
Building Communities
Alumni of programmes are sources of support, advocacy and talent for businesses, universities, and programmes. ChangeSchool drives engagement programmes to build thriving communities of interest and practice, for clients in the UK, SSA, Latin America and Southeast Asia.
Entrepreneurial University
Universities excel in research and education but often fail to commercialise due to market understanding gaps, leading to missed opportunities worth billions of dollars. ChangeSchool has ran national level entrepreneurial university award programmes to inspire, guide, and recognise universities that demonstrate leadership and progress in driving student enterprise activity, embracing commercialisation of IP and developing 21st-century job skills for their graduates.
Entrepreneurial Systems Thinking
Graduate entrepreneurship programmes fail to make traction due to unsupportive ecosystems. In Sub-Saharan Africa, through our Centre of Excellence we cultivate systems thinking across 24 international higher education partnerships to share working practices, facilitate knowledge exchange and transformative learning experiences to transform the entrepreneurial success of graduates.
Entrepreneurial Systems Leadership
Creating decent jobs for the youth are high on national agendas. ChangeSchool works with the leadership teams of HEIs, ecosystems and foundations to transform entrepreneurial education, support, and teaching practices to transform graduate capabilities to be start-up and 21-century skills job ready.
Elite education, for everyone.
We believe in elite education for everyone, and here is how we have impacted entrepreneurs, incubators, and accelerators across 39 countries.
Strong UK Foundation Since 2012
Entrepreneurship programmes for King’s College London’s medical and engineering faculties, and UCL's Entrepreneur-in-Residence programme, and helped LSBU win Entrepreneurial University of the Year, and have supported over 400 ventures to date.
Developing International Capacity
From 2018 to 2022, partnered with 13 universities across five Central Asian countries, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Georgia, to develop entrepreneurial capacity for student enterprise and 24 University partnerships in Sub-Saharan Africa across four countries, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, and South Africa. Our Elite Education Programmes reached 11,900 beneficiaries.
Empowering 6,900+ Global Entrepreneurs
We run the training and coaching for the UK's top accelerators for technology entrepreneurs (Ranked #3 in the UK). The Enterprise Fellowships at the Royal Academy of Engineering, where ChangeSchool has been delivering programmes since 2023, have raised £567m total funds, including £444m in equity. We have trained over 6,900 leaders and entrepreneurs over the last decade.
Real Voices,
Real Ventures
Hear directly from innovators who turned ideas into ventures through our programmes. Each story reflects the courage to experiment, the drive to grow, and the support that makes it possible. These aren’t just testimonials, they’re snapshots of transformation, collaboration, and impact in action.
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"I had a bootcamp with MIT – the time here is a lot better organised, we have a lot more time here [London].
The content is similar, but this was more engaging.”
Florencia Riswanto
LIF6 Fellow
Indonesia
“A perfect way and timing to reset, revisit and reframe OS City’s value proposition in an after-covid world. Without LIF, we wouldn’t be feeling so confident of the way ahead.”
Jesus 'Chuy' Cepeda
LIF Global 2022
Mexico
“LIF Global is a life-changing programme. It makes you think about how you position yourself as a businessperson, how you see your product or service and how you see yourself”
Wendy Leong
LIF Global 2022
Malaysia
