Award-Winning Transformational
Leadership Development
Our executive education programmes help leaders and organisations achieve measurable, lasting change. Recognised by the EFMD Excellence in Practice Award, our approach combines academic rigour with real-world impact - building leadership capability that drives innovation, growth, and transformation across sectors and regions.
An Award-Winning Partner in Leadership Transformation
ChangeSchool, a winner of the EFMD Excellence in Practice Silver Award 2025 (Ecosystem Development), brings award-winning design and delivery capabilities to executive education. As partner to King’s Business School and the Education & Training Foundation, we specialise in designing and delivering transformational leadership programmes, bespoke executive portfolios, and large-scale talent-ecosystem initiatives.
As one of the only non-university institutions to be recognised at this level, we offer a unique synthesis of world-class pedagogical expertise, with faculty from London Business School and Cambridge Judge Business School, and an agile, results-driven approach.
This combination delivers measurable impact, consistently achieving world-class Net Promoter Scores of +85 and above, and has been further recognised with the 2025 Merit Award, Special recognition for Educational Innovation. Partner with us to move beyond traditional executive education deliver and build a true capacity for transformational leadership within your organisation.
Partner with us
Great executive education shifts leadership mindsets to action. It requires the discovery of the challenge, the knowledge to bear, the application to an action, the experience of success, and the support to remove hurdles. No single institution holds the key.
Great executive education requires an ecosystem of executive education delivery partners that provide complementary expertise to make the experience transformational.
Business schools partner with us to bring in practitioner expertise, specialised knowledge, and international scale to make their programmes more competitive and compelling.
They also benefit from connecting their with practice, achieve the balance between academic quality and managerial relevance, and meet their accreditation requirements.
As partner to business schools such as King’s, we specialise in designing and delivering transformational leadership programmes, bespoke executive portfolios, and large-scale talent-ecosystem initiatives. We have delivered award-winning programmes in 39 countries.
We invite you to join us on this journey together.
Viren Lall, FRSA
Academic Lead, Custom Executive Education
Managing Director, ChangeSchool LDN
What makes us special
For corporate and government clients, we design and deliver custom programmes that build measurable leadership legacies, a capability validated by multiple EFMD awards for both talent and ecosystem development.
For business school partners, we are a strategic partner, leveraging our practitioner-led model to help them meet the critical "Connections with Practice" requirement for accreditation.
Our pedagogical approach, centred on discovery-based learning and mindset shifts, consistently achieves world-class Net Promoter Scores, ensuring deep participant engagement and tangible impact.
Ask us how we can partner to help you with your transformational leadership needs
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 equip leaders with strategic acumen, growth mindsets, and managerial expertise to empower them to grow their organisations. Our accredited coaches provide tailored support, enhancing leadership performance.
With a focus on innovation, our programmes cultivate change capacity, driving enduring success in a rapidly evolving landscape underpinned by our award-winning pedagogical expertise.
You can see our techniques, development themes and case studies of projects in the next section.
Senior Leadership Development
Transitioning to higher levels in the leadership pipeline requires managing up and across, rigorous delegation and moving beyond technical competency traps. ChangeSchool's senior leadership programmes cultivate strategic acumen, empowering executives to build strategic networks, empower teams and lead with a vision.
Coaching & Mentoring
Coaching plays a pivotal role in helping leaders unlock their organizational potential. ChangeSchool’s roster of accredited and highly qualified coaches helps executives in our leadership programmes with a tailored approach to contextualise learning and development, foster growth mindsets, and enhance their leadership performance.
Change & Transformation
Organisations that embrace innovation and transformational change position themselves for long-term sustainable growth.
Our programmes for Further Education colleges and corporates such as BT, Cofely, have empowered executives to cultivate strategic acumen, develop change capacity and lead transformation resulting in £430m of benefits realisation and have been published as case studies as exemplars of great practice.
Innovation & Growth
Innovation is the cornerstone of organizational growth and competitive advantage. With a sharp focus on strategy, execution, and sustainability, ChangeSchool has empowered organisations from India to the GCC countries to navigate uncertainty, seize opportunities, and achieve enduring success in a rapidly changing business landscape.
Pedagogical Expertise
Effective pedagogy underpins the engagement, participation and call to action in executive education. ChangeSchool's award-winning pedagogical expertise uses discovery-based learning, non-patriarchal and inclusive facilitation techniques, and a range of modern tools to deliver highly rated development programmes as recognized in our awards and recognition.
Uniting 86 Institutions for National Education Reform
When the UK government introduced the landmark T-Level qualifications, the Further Education sector faced a significant implementation challenge amidst change fatigue. ChangeSchool, in partnership with King's College London and the Education and Training Foundation, was commissioned to deliver the T-Level Professional Development programme.
Our mission was to create a "movement for change." We designed a programme that not only developed individual leaders but also fostered unprecedented cross-institutional collaboration. The result was a vibrant community of change leaders across 86 normally competing institutions, working together to ensure the successful national rollout of T-Levels. This achievement was recognised with the 2025 Merit Award for cross-institutional collaboration and the 2025 EFMD Excellence in Practice Silver Award.
As our Managing Director, Viren Lall, noted in EFMD site.
"Institutional and sector-wide transformation is never easy. We celebrate a programme that turned challenges into momentum and leadership into legacy. Through cascaded learning, it empowered lasting change and collaboration across institutions."
Collaborating with ChangeSchool allows you to create award-winning programmes that deliver genuine, measurable impact.
Our commitment to excellence in executive education is recognised at the highest levels of the industry.
EMFD EiP Silver Award Winner (2025 & 2023)
Recognised twice by the European Foundation for Management Development for outstanding partnerships in Ecosystem Development and Talent Development.
World-Class Engagement
Our programmes consistently achieve a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of +85 or higher, reflecting exceptional participant satisfaction and impact.
Proven Results
We design and deliver custom leadership journeys that drive mindset shifts and build lasting legacies of leadership. Partner with us to build your next generation of leaders.
The Challenge
When the UK government introduced T-Level qualifications, the Further Education sector faced significant implementation challenges amidst change fatigue.
Our Approach
ChangeSchool, in partnership with King's College London and the Education and Training Foundation, delivered the T-Level Professional Development programme to create a "movement for change."
The Impact
• 86 normally competing institutions collaborated
• 658 total participants engaged (143 core + 515 cascade)
• 100% satisfaction with learning experience
• NPS score improved from +56 to +100
• Created lasting community of change leaders
Recognition
This achievement earned both the 2025 Merit Award for cross-institutional collaboration and the 2025 EFMD Excellence in Practice Silver Award.
Award-Winning Executive Education in Action
ChangeSchool’s transformative partnership model has been recognised by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) with the 2025 Excellence in Practice Silver Award.
The award honours our collaboration with industry and academic partners for creating impact-driven executive education that delivers measurable organisational change.
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UK universities who work with us
Leadership and management development
AI Leadership for Senior Executives
Developing AI Fluency
Build foundational understanding to evaluate AI tools, engage with technical teams, and make sound decisions about AI adoption.
Identifying Where AI Creates Value
A systematic process for discovering use cases that align with business priorities and building a prioritised roadmap.
Protecting Decision Quality
Understand where biases enter AI-assisted work and establish team practices for safe, effective use.
Multiplying Capacity Through AI
Integrate AI into leadership workflows with frameworks for investment, maintenance, and optimisation.
AI Capability for Teams
Discovering AI Use Cases
A structured process to identify where AI tools can support your organisation's work, with prompt engineering fundamentals.
Brand Tone and Voice
Create custom scripts that reflect your writing style, turning content production from a bottleneck into advantage
Winning Proposals, Faster
AI-assisted market research, multi-shot prompt engineering, and repeatable frameworks for compelling proposals
Discovering New Markets
AI-assisted customer discovery using Jobs to Be Done, with compliant outreach and qualitative synthesis methods.
Developing Managerial Capability
Strategic Innovation
Scenario Planning
Simulate multiple plausible futures and develop fresh business projects in our highly unpredictable world.
Multi-Horizon Innovation
Develop structures and manage conflicting demands to run simultaneous innovation initiatives and future proof the organisation.
Business Model Innovation
Innovation for incumbent organisations to create value and defend against disruption.
Creative Innovations
A participant-empowered technique to address the gaps between intention and execution that lead to failure within strategic projects.
Strategic Execution
Developing Strategy
Defining your strategy and execution plan with techniques to communicate and lead with vision.
Leading Change
A powerful mechanism, to lead an inclusive transformation programme that leverages rational, emotional and political levers of change.
Benefit Driving Entreprise
How to translate strategic intent into implementation and benefit-driven programmes of activity throughout the organisation.
Transformation Hothouses
A participant-empowered technique to address the gaps between intention and execution that lead to failure within strategic projects.
Innovation Cultures
Agile Project Management
Simulate multiple plausible futures and develop fresh business projects in our highly unpredictable world.
Data Driven Implementation
Modern innovation has moved beyond intuition. Take the risk out of product development. Learn how to test your ideas and find the right, market-ready solution.
Global Cultural Leadership
Global interaction requires nuanced understanding on how national cultures behave differently with respect to decision making, authority and communication.
Leading Cultural Change
Shifting the beliefs, cultural norms, behaviours, and actions from an all-important part of driving change.
Testimonials
Florencia Riswanto
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.”
LIF6 Fellow
Indonesia
Jesus 'Chuy'Cepeda
“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.”
LIF Global 2022
Mexico
Abeer Albashiti
“[The] LIF programme was a turning point for me. I was almost quitting my start-up, but after the residential, the virtual accelerator and this in-country event, these programmes equipped me with a new skill set and mindset to move forward with my project.”
LIF6 Fellow
Jordan
Wendy Leong
“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”
LFI Global 2022
Malaysia
Award Winning Executive Education
In 2023 King’s College London and ChangeSchool co-delivered executive education programme for 120 civil servants won Europe’s Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) silver category ward in talent development for aspiring leaders.
Since 2007, the EFMD Excellence in Practice (EiP) Awards have recognised outstanding and impactful client-supplier partnerships in Organisational, Talent, Leadership and Professional Development.
Our Published Change and Innovation Techniques
What this book is about: Learn how sustainable change can be delivered in organizations regardless of company size and industry sector by drawing on these best practice examples.
Our contribution: Multi-locational complex change and leadership requirements for a 3200 people change initiative across seven countries. The use of hothousing techniques to mobilise extremely complex transformation programmes.
Highest Levels of Executive Education Programme Ratings
The Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a metric that quantifies customer satisfaction and loyalty by gauging the likelihood of individuals recommending a product, service, or company to others.
Our Executive Education sessions have high engagement and Net Promoter Scores: We consistently achieve an NPS of +85 and above. NPS scores range from -100 to +100. NPS Score of over +50 is excellent, and over +70 is considered world-class.
In our deliveries for UK government programmes, in 2023 for the Education and Training Foundation, ChangeSchool achieved a 100% satisfaction rating for all three programmes and a recording-breaking Net Promoter Scores.
Videos from our executive education programmes
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Change School Pedagogy
Participant Engagement
All our sessions are active, maintain engagement and avoid fatigue: Our design processes use a mix of eight different types of activities as pedagogical learning components to inform our session-by-session design based on learning outcomes. Across our programmes, learning is structured appropriately to the type of learner and phase of learning to ensure real-world application of what is learned.
ChangeSchool partnerships with City University, London South Bank University and Essex University also produced 3 of the 5 national winners in Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and Uzbekistan
Learning Reinforcement
Embedded within our pedagogy, reinforcement occurs naturally as participants delve into experiential learning with provided resources. Through collaborative efforts and guided reflection, our approach encourages discovery-based learning, ensuring concepts are solidified through real-world application in simulations and virtual programmes, supported by mentors and networks.
ChangeSchool partnerships with City University, London South Bank University and Essex University also produced 3 of the 5 national winners in Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and Uzbekistan
Coaching and mentoring
All our sessions are active, maintain engagement and avoid fatigue: Our design processes use a mix of eight different types of activities as pedagogical learning components to inform our session-by-session design based on learning outcomes. Across our programmes, learning is structured appropriately to the type of learner and phase of learning to ensure real-world application of what is learned.
ChangeSchool partnerships with City University, London South Bank University and Essex University also produced 3 of the 5 national winners in Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and Uzbekistan
Awards and Recognition
EFMD EiP Silver Award 2025
Award: EFMD Excellence in Practice (EiP) Silver Award
Year: 2025
Category: Ecosystem Development
Partners: King’s Business School & Education & Training Foundation (ETF)
Role: Delivery partner and co-designer, UK executive education programme (T Level Professional Development)
External link: EFMD Global winners list
EFMD EiP awards are considered as the highest industry award in executive education/non-degree educational recognition.
We had previously received the EFMD Excellence in Practice (EiP) Silver Award in 2023 for our collaborative work with King’s Business School
ChangeSchool's partnership with King’s Business School has received three industry awards and currently delivers a number of executive education programmes for senior leaders for the UK government
The Merit Summit awards 2025
Award: Merit Summit Awards Special Recognition
Year: 2025 Category: Cross-institutional Collaboration
Partners: Education & Training Foundation (ETF) & King's College London
Role: Delivery partner and co-designer, T-Levels Professional Development Programme reaching 86 organisations
The Merit Summit awards celebrate outstanding achievements in future-ready organisational development, leadership, and learning innovation. Our T-Levels Professional Development Program was selected from amongst exceptional submissions across the industry.
This recognition particularly honours our collaborative approach to building communities and creating meaningful impact. The program reached 86 organisations, demonstrating the power of partnership in transforming professional development.
ChangeSchool received this recognition for cross institutional institutional collaboration in partnership with Education and Training Foundation (ETF) and King's College London (KCL)
International and national start-up awards
In a multi-country competition for online pitching, held independently in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, with 800 submissions from 80 higher education institutions, the ChangeSchool/Essex University partnership produced the International champion start-up winner GreenDom across all the participating nations. GreenDom had conceptualised a therapeutic Greenhouse preparing children with disabilities for the labour market a massive move towards social impact;
ChangeSchool partnerships with City University, London South Bank University and Essex University also produced 3 of the 5 national winners in Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and Uzbekistan
Award winning executive education
Award: EFMD Excellence in Practice (EiP) Silver Award Year: 2023 Category: Talent Development Partners: King's Business School (King's College London)
Role: Co-delivery partner, executive education programme for 120 UK civil servants
External link: EFMD Global winners list
In 2023 King’s College London and ChangeSchool co-delivered executive education programme for 120 civil servants won Europe’s Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) silver category ward in talent development for aspiring leaders.
Since 2007, the EFMD Excellence in Practice (EiP) Awards have recognised outstanding and impactful client-supplier partnerships in Organisational, Talent, Leadership and Professional Development.
ChangeSchool in partnership with King’s Business School delivers a number of executive education programmes for senior leadership UK's Further education Sector today