Leadership Lab
Boost your skills and advance your institution's sustainability journey with the EAUC Leadership Lab, a three-day transformative leadership course at the University of Cambridge designed for professionals in post-16 education.
Next course
24–26 March 2026, University of Cambridge
Overview
The Leadership Lab is designed to fuel transformative change by supporting you, leaders at every level, to embrace the pursuit of sustainability across all scales: from the local to the global, and across the diverse communities and stakeholders that make up higher and further education.
Your wisdom, expertise, sense of purpose, and ambition to drive societal betterment matter. Bring your full self to this programme. Use this immersive, experiential space to draw upon your courage and hope, connect with a powerful peer community, and shape a world that leaves no one behind.
You’ll leave equipped to help your organisation realise its fullest sustainability potential and we promise you'll enjoy the experience along the way.
Course objectives
This 3-day course is designed to help you:
Lead authentically and embed sustainability into strategy and operations
Develop influence and negotiation skills to change thinking and build alliances
Explore adaptive leadership to manage complexity, pushback and uncertainty
Strengthen resilience through compassion, reflection and peer support
Apply proven frameworks directly to your own project or challenge
Learn how your peers are embedding sustainability whilst balancing financial priorities
Connect with guest speakers and senior leaders in post-16 education facing similar challenges
About the facilitator
Professor Wendy Purcell FRSA is a practitioner and academic specialising in leadership and sustainability.
She is the current vice chair for education and professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Justice at the Rutgers Universities in New Jersey, the USA. She continues to research global leadership and governance for sustainable transformation in higher education.
Prior to joining Rutgers, Wendy led research on this topic at Harvard University. She also worked at a strategic level with a number of health organisations including the NHS, the UK Council for Healthcare Scientists and Health Education England.
Wendy has authored over one hundred publications and has edited a number of books on higher education, the Sustainable Development Goals, climate change strategies, leadership and organisational development.
Fees
£1,550 which includes:
Two nights' accommodation at a Cambridge college
All meals, including an informal and formal dinner with guest speakers
Course materials
Access to the Leadership Lab alumni network
£2,325 which includes:
Two nights' accommodation at a Cambridge college
All meals, including an informal and formal dinner with guest speakers
Course materials
Access to the Leadership Lab alumni network
What previous participants have said
"The Leadership Lab helped me build confidence in my leadership approach, connect with passionate individuals across the sustainability field, and expand my network. It also gave me the space to explore diverse perspectives and reflect on complex challenges in a more strategic and creative way.”
Julia Durkan University of Manchester
"By far, the best CPD I've ever had."
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