2-Day Foundation Course
OrientationFour Schools: Head · Heart · Hand · Compass
Find your starting point · then see the journey
Is this for you?
We built this for grassroots leaders — if you are already doing the work with no path to recognition, this is probably for you. This is not a quiz. There is no score, and nothing here can reject you.
Four things that make someone right for this
A values checklist, not a quiz. No scoring, no gate, nothing is submitted.
The ladder at one glance
From leadership intent to responsible grassroots leadership.
Leadership capability rises as participants move from shared understanding to independent action, reflection, adaptation and verified public impact.
Demonstrated leadership capability
4-Week Leadership Academy
Capability building4 Schools · 16 Modules · 64 Hours
100-Day AKF Public Problem-Solving Lab
Leadership in actionDiagnose · Organise · Act · Review
- Discover purpose
- Build shared understanding
- Set leadership intent
- Learn actively
- Apply in practice
- Build evidence
- Field challenge
- Reflection
- Adaptation
- Responsible grassroots leadership
- Evaluation, certification and next responsibility
- 01Orientation
- 02Capability
- 03Practice
- 04Public impact
How the programmes connect
The classroom is the beginning, not the finish.
Foundation Course
Two days to understand the journey, examine purpose through the Four Schools and define a personal leadership intent.
Explore the Foundation Course →Leadership Academy
Four weeks of structured capability building across 16 modules and 64 hours of practice, evidence and feedback.
Explore the Leadership Academy →Public Problem-Solving Lab
One hundred days applying the learning to a public challenge through diagnosis, organising, action, review and adaptation.
Explore the 100-day Lab →How progress is judged
Capability becomes credible when it can be demonstrated.
Across the Academy and 100-day Lab, progress rests on work that can be reviewed—not status, connection or visibility.
Organisation building
Leadership begins with building durable teams.
Evidence looks like: a team that keeps working without you.Citizen impact
Public work must create a verifiable benefit.
Evidence looks like: a change people in your community can confirm.Reliability
Consistency matters more than occasional visibility.
Evidence looks like: showing up steadily, week after week.Learning
Reflection and learning keep practice improving.
Evidence looks like: noticing what worked, and doing it better.Verifiable
Every claim needs evidence that someone else can check.
A living practice
Progress reflects ongoing work, not an accumulated past.
Equal voice
No member's endorsement carries extra weight. A senior leader's support counts exactly the same as a new volunteer's.
Your privacy on the journey
Your certification can be shared. Your learning record stays protected.
Shareable
Name, programme completion, certification and verified public-impact summary.
Private
Assessment responses, feedback, reflections and detailed evidence records. No public leaderboard, by design.
See the DPDP notice for the full data policy.
Ready to begin the journey?
Not sure yet? That is fine. Read the programmes, or come to an event first.