Program Overview
The world needs leaders, entrepreneurs, and change-makers with the courage to challenge the status quo—become a Kaospilot. Embark on a transformative three-year learning journey where you will work on projects that matter—not only to you but to the world.
At Kaospilot, you will cultivate entrepreneurial skills, adaptive mindsets, and leadership abilities while discovering your unique direction and career path. Our education is rooted in reality, engaging with real people and addressing real-world challenges. Through a team-based approach, you will learn and grow collaboratively with your peers in a dynamic and inspiring environment.
Over the course of your education, you will build a robust portfolio of impactful projects, gain practical and relevant skills, and develop a strong network to support your future endeavors. By the time you graduate, you’ll be equipped with the experience and readiness to step into a world of opportunities, driving meaningful change and creating a lasting impact.
Content
Our program provides you with a transformative learning experience, equipping you with theories and tools to create meaningful impact in real-world settings. You will deepen your leadership skills, expand your professional capacities, and clarify your personal and career direction. Rooted in our unique integration of Business Design, Process Design, Project Design, and Leadership, we prepare you to navigate complexity, foster innovation, and drive systemic change.
Business Design:
Learn to craft regenerative, equitable, and innovative solutions that create value for diverse stakeholders. Develop the tools to transform businesses and systems, addressing both economic goals and societal challenges.
Process Design:
Master the art of designing and facilitating collaborative processes that embrace complexity and foster collective transformation. Build the capacity to lead with empathy, adaptability, and systemic awareness.
Project Design:
Develop the ability to creatively organize, manage, and lead projects across scales and contexts. Gain practical tools to deliver impactful outcomes while cultivating relationships and value for all involved.
Leadership:
Strengthen your self-awareness and confidence to lead with purpose. Build a solid foundation for adaptive leadership that integrates personal growth with the ability to guide others, inspire collaboration, and create meaningful change.
ECTS:
The full three-year program awards 180 ECTS credits, equivalent to a bachelor’s degree.
Approach
The Kaospilot Education offers an alternative learning and pedagogical approach that is built around a rigorous training platform, which dynamically combines theory, action and reflection.
Our approach has evolved over the past 30+ years of experience of a broad yet coherent theoretical foundation. It draws upon various theories within philosophy, psychology, action research and learning. Three essential learning elements.
Action & Reflection
The Kaospilot Education is virtually a playground for learning where you apply theory in action and become a leader who is engaged in creating change through action.
Project-Based Learning
A central part of your learning is working with projects in different constellations – individual, group and team-wide projects – and in different contexts across the globe. You will have the opportunity to work on projects of your own interest too.
Workshops & Practice
You will be taught by some of the world’s leading experts who will provide you with the latest theories and tools. All of our lectures are workshop-based, which means that they are interactive and focused on how you apply theory and tools.
Is This For Me?
Applicants to the Kaospilot Education are the dreamers and doers of this generation. They have a learner’s mindset. They are positive and passionate people who believe in creating world-changing ideas.
People who apply to the program come from diverse cultural and educational backgrounds; some hold just a high school degree and others might have an undergraduate or post-graduate degree. The level of work experience varies as well from people in leadership positions to entrepreneurs, to people who have worked on community-based projects.
This Kaospilot Education is for you if you are ready to:
- Work with real organisations and real challenges in a rapidly changing world
- Be challenged both professionally and personally.
- Explore your strengths and develop your craft.
Make a difference in the world.
Career Opportunities
When you graduate the Kaospilot Education, you graduate with the title Kaospilot. A Kaospilot is an entrepreneur, leader or changemaker. Kaospilots work in different industries where they lead, manage and execute projects in all shapes and sizes. A Kaospilot is often the missing link in any organisation that wishes to drive change and create results.
Examples of areas where Kaospilots work:
- Organisational development
- Social entrepreneurship
- Business consulting
- Project management
- Process facilitation and leadership
Graduated alumnis go on to work in a variety of industries and sectors: More than 30% of the graduates start their own business and over 50% hold a leadership position. Read more about what you become here.
Frequently asked questions
What is Kaospilot Education?
The Kaospilot Education is a 3 year education offered by Kaospilot where you learn how to lead projects and businesses in the pursuit of making the world a better place.
Who is the Kaospilot Education for?
Kaospilot Education is for everyone who wishes to be a part of a group of people that want to make a difference and are longing for a change.
What do I learn at the Kaospilot Education?
At the Kaospilot Education you learn how to create change and to facilitate a space where people, with a variety of backgrounds, can grow.