EAUC Leadership Lab

The Leadership Lab is for Senior leaders, established in their careers, usually heads of department or working strategically to embed Sustainability within their organisations.

EAUC Leadership Lab 2025

Apply to join us at Cambridge University in January 2025, when we gather again to explore contemporary insights and practices in leadership and change management. This transformational personal and professional development leadership laboratory seeks to create a co-development space where you can build your expertise and confidence as a sustainability leader. Your work in higher education or a related sector will involve concerted efforts to co-create thriving, sustainable communities based on equity.

Chair: Professor Wendy M. Purcell PhD FRSA, Professor & Vice Chair Education Rutgers University, USA; Academic Research Scholar, Harvard University, USA; Visiting Professor, University College London, UK; University President Emerita and Emeritus Professor

The course focuses on leaders and change agents and seeks to support them in their efforts to advance sustainability initiative, projects, and plans within and through their own institution. The focus is on personal and professional development to support strategic leadership and team-based execution, re-thinking change agency in these challenging times, emphasizing the critical role of higher education to creating a world that leaves no one behind.

The 2025 Leadership Lab will give delegates the opportunity to work directly with peers to explore complex transformation challenges and create pathways for change that lead to actionable solutions. A focus on what works and change hacks seek to support each delegate with a change project or challenge they are personally engaged with in pursuing sustainability within their institution. Alongside new insights on leadership theory and practice, the lab will include reflections from practice with guest speakers sharing their insights and experience. Delegates will benefit from uninterrupted time to discuss, review, and make use of the expertise of the cohort, the faculty and guest speakers, as well as the curated learning resources and access to the alumni network. This is an immersive in-person event that makes best use of the beautiful environment of Cambridge University and its environs.

Dates: 14th - 16th January 2025, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. The cost for the course is £1,450 to include 2 nights accommodation at the Cambridge College, all catering including an informal and formal dinner with guest speakers, all course materials, and of course a wonderful opportunity.

Places on the course are limited to ensure we offer the best possible opportunities for you to effectively learn, network and have access to all the expertise available during the course. Spaces will be allocated to accepted applications on a first come first served basis.

If you would like to apply please email fgoodwin@eauc.org.uk with the below application form and a headshot of yourself ASAP.