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Education for a world that needs YOU to act
We are not a conventional university, so we invite you to leave your expectations at the door.
We have over 20 years of experience tackling complex challenges such as climate change, racism, youth unemployment, etc. That’s why we believe that the best way to learn and tackle challenges is through practice, not through listening from a comfortable chair and taking notes.
In our courses, you’ll learn how to tackle social, environmental and political challenges through the paradigm of complexity.
- You can participate in our current courses to understand the concepts and take first steps.
- Then you can immerse yourself into practising effective strategy and further developing your skills through our advanced courses.
- And you can also join one of our strategies, like the Gigatonne Challenge, which is our response to the climate crisis.
This way, you will start paving the way toward real change.
Who’s behind Complexity University?
Manish Jain and Zaid Hassan are the co-founders of Complexity University. Both of them have worked hard over two decades on a range of complex challenges, from climate change to education to racism.
At the end of a large piece of work they did together in 2017 and 2018, they felt that they had really not achieved what they thought was possible, that they had fallen short.
This led to a year-long conversation where they assessed what they had been doing and concluded that there was a better way.
As we entered into the era of COVID-19, they decided to start testing their ideas out online. Due to lockdown, they had a global audience trapped at home, desperate to be useful and try things out.
Throughout the pandemic, they tested and experimented with different models on how to support people and teams across the globe to learn – and most importantly to practice – taking effective action to tackle complex challenges.
Two years of rapid and intense experimentation – built on the foundation of two decades of practice, led them to founding Complexity University and the Gigatonne Challenge. Both initiatives are part of 10 in 10, with the mission to tackle ten global challenges in ten years.
“We have the power to transform pretty much anything we want – ourselves, our relationships, each other and the world. Believing we do is another matter entirely.
There is a pragmatic way out of the headlong stampede to the global catastrophe we’re locked into. It is a choice we’ve got to make. And this is a choice of who we want to be.
It starts with mustering the courage to depart from familiar and comfortable roads.”
Zaid Hassan
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