Cambridge students already get an exceptional and deep education, kindled by some of the world's best minds. To thrive in the world, however, skills outside your academic subject also deserve the same purposefulness and attention. 

The Changemaker programme is built around 4 clusters of attributes. These clusters have been designed drawing on research from psychology, leadership, sustainability, anticipation studies, education, community-building, innovation and business: and on our collective experience leading changemaking initiatives

Each element of the programme is designed to layer up skills, mindsets and practices across these four areas. 

​

Resilience

Building confidence.

Reflective practice.

Prioritising.

Managing stress.

Understanding who we are, what has shaped us, and the values we hold. 

Vision-casting.

Strengths and drivers analysis.

Self-efficacy.

Action and Enterprise

Creativity.

Application. 

Problem-solving.

Decision-making. 

Assessing risk.

Comfort with failure and not-knowing.

Networking.

Pitching. 

Financial awareness.

Persistence.

Emotional intelligence.

Empathy.

Compassion.

Getting to true collaboration. 

Responsibility

Inter-cultural understanding.

The roots, effects and management of prejudice. 

The ambitions, limits and principles of changemaking. 

Macro-system of power, influence, and change.

Difference, diversity, equality. 

Social awareness

Global sustainability.

Leadership

The ability to get things done, alongside and with others. 

Team skills (listening, effective communication, interdependence). 

Team types. 

Individual profiles. 

Vision developement.

What leaders are, know, and do.

Adapting to environment.

Community and social challenge. 

Encountering and welcoming difference.