--- title: The Unconventional School description: We disrupt professional development with dynamic, in-person innovation programs. We don't just teach innovation. We make it inevitable. --- [![US-logo](https://unconventional.school/hubfs/US-logo.png)](https://unconventional.school) [Contact Us](https://unconventional.school/contact?hsLang=en) - [About Us](https://unconventional.school/about-us) - [About Us](https://unconventional.school/about-us) # WE MAKE INNOVATION INEVITABLE What happens when we stop looking only at “business as usual” and **start learning from NASA, science, biomimicry, philosophy, music, art, or even cooking?** At The Unconventional School, we activate creative perspectives to **spark leadership capable of reading and redesigning systems, working through friction, and making responsible strategic decisions when uncertainty is real, and consequences are real too.**   # SPARKING COLLECTIVE PROVOCATIONS # TO IMAGINE AND CREATE OTHER WORLDS ### WE DON'T TEACH INNOVATION ### WE MAKE IT INEVITABLE **We spark collective provocations to imagine and create other worlds.** Having a diverse set of tools and perspectives is the best way to 𝗻𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘆. **We support and equip communities, organisations and local ecosystems to imagine new ways of creating, transforming and collaborating through:** - Curiosity and connecting knowledge - Playing with existing constraints - Active learning methodologies   ## WHAT MAKE US UNCONVENTIONAL ![009-respetuoso-del-medio-ambiente](https://unconventional.school/hubfs/Iconos/009-respetuoso-del-medio-ambiente.png) **Disrupt for Good:** Apply your talent to social issues Innovating for nonprofits, communities, and causes that matter.   ![001-cultura-corporativa](https://unconventional.school/hubfs/icons/001-cultura-corporativa.png) **Learn from the brightest minds:** Guest provocateurs, and pioneering minds and companies   ![004-cerebro](https://unconventional.school/hubfs/icons/004-cerebro.png) **Play with the unexpected:** Mix disciplines, break norms, rewire how you think ![008-problema](https://unconventional.school/hubfs/icons/008-problema.png) **Play with constraints:** We use limitations, tensions and complexity as material for experimentation. ![010-comunidad](https://unconventional.school/hubfs/Iconos/010-comunidad.png) **Design with, not for:** We bring different voices into the room and treat lived experience, professional expertise and local knowledge as equally valuable. ![003-capacitacion](https://unconventional.school/hubfs/icons/003-capacitacion.png) **Make change stick:** We bring artists into the process to co-create rituals and cultural artefacts that make change visible, memorable and lasting. Trusted by the Brave ## BELOVED BY INNOVATORS ![003-equipo-de-negocios](https://unconventional.school/hubfs/Iconos/003-equipo-de-negocios.png) 45 K Learners Trained → Over 25 years igniting Innovation, leadership, and Science. ![001-cultura-corporativa](https://unconventional.school/hubfs/Iconos/001-cultura-corporativa.png) 80 + Countries Represented → A living global network of disruptors. ![002-reunion-de-negocios](https://unconventional.school/hubfs/Iconos/002-reunion-de-negocios.png) 250 + Corporate Partners → Organisations already disrupted through our programs. ## WHO WE WORK WITH ![Communities](https://unconventional.school/hubfs/Iconos/004-companero-de-negocios.png) ### COMMUNITIES **Building agency, participation and collective capacity.**We work with educational and social communities to understand challenges, strengthen relationships and co-create ways of changing the realities around them. **Education · Social innovation · Community programmes · Learning** ![003-equipo-de-negocios](https://unconventional.school/hubfs/icons/003-equipo-de-negocios.png) ### ORGANISATIONS **Turning complexity into collective action.** We help businesses, foundations, social organisations and teams rethink strategy, culture, leadership and ways of working, and turn ideas into experiments and action. **Strategy · Culture · Leadership · Innovation · Organisational transformation**  ![005-redes](https://unconventional.school/hubfs/icons/005-redes.png) ### LOCAL ECOSYSTEMS **Connecting people, institutions and knowledge to transform places.** We work with councils, public institutions, universities and local actors to understand complex challenges and design interventions with — not only for — the people affected by them. **Public innovation · Participatory research · Community intervention · Local transformation** ## WHAT WE DO ![002-metodologa](https://unconventional.school/hubfs/icons/002-metodologa.png) ### STRATEGY **Turning complexity into direction.** We help teams make sense of uncertainty, align around what matters and turn ambition into clear priorities, decisions and action. **Strategy · Alignment · Culture · Governance · Decision-making** ![Diagnosis](https://unconventional.school/hubfs/icons/003-investigacin.png) ### DIAGNOSIS **Understanding before acting.** We uncover needs, behaviours, tensions and opportunities through qualitative and quantitative research — so decisions are grounded in reality, not assumptions. **Research · Insight · Evaluation · Participation · Impact** ![Intervention](https://unconventional.school/hubfs/icons/005-idea-genial.png) ### INTERVENTION **Moving from insight to change.** We design and activate participatory processes, tools and experiments that help communities, organisations and local ecosystems transform ideas into tangible action. **Co-creation · Participation · Facilitation · Social innovation · Transformation** ![002-libro](https://unconventional.school/hubfs/icons/002-libro.png) ##### LEARNING **Building the capacity to act differently.** We create active, meaningful and participatory learning experiences that develop new skills, perspectives and ways of working, from bespoke programmes to university collaborations and microcredentials. **Active learning · Leadership · Innovation · Microcredentials · Capability building** ## COMMUNITY LAB A vibrant, ongoing global network of changemakers who challenge systems, reshape culture and come together to explore what they cannot always explore in their day-to-day work. We use participatory methodologies to tackle complex challenges across the public sector, the third sector and educational institutions. We connect people and institutions to drive transformation and create measurable impact. **We design and activate the tools to change it by:** **1.- EMPOWERING TALENT:** Helping people become architects of solutions for their own communities with the tools, confidence and agency to shape the reality around them. **2.- FOSTERING A SENSE OF BELONGING:** Co-creating projects that build an emotional connection between people, their local ecosystems and institutions — turning apathy into shared responsibility. **3.- FOSTERING COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE:** Bringing together different forms of knowledge and recognising that a young person, a teacher and a local government professional can each bring equal strategic value to solving shared challenges. Fueled by Learners ## PROVEN IN BUSINES ![003-capacitacion](https://unconventional.school/hubfs/Iconos/003-capacitacion.png) 500 + **Challenges Tackled →** Real business challenges disrupted through our labs. ![005-redes](https://unconventional.school/hubfs/Iconos/005-redes.png) 80 % **Ongoing Engagement →** Alumni staying connected through follow-ups, challenges, and collaborations. ![001-liderazgo](https://unconventional.school/hubfs/Iconos/001-liderazgo.png) 80 % **Applied Learning Within 30 Days →** Professionals putting tools into practice fast. ![004-companero-de-negocios](https://unconventional.school/hubfs/Iconos/004-companero-de-negocios.png) 75 % **Retention Boost →** Skills that stick thanks to experiential methods. ## **POWERED BY +45K LEARNERS ACROSS INDUSTRIES** ![Clients](https://unconventional.school/hubfs/Clients.png) [![US-logo](https://unconventional.school/hubfs/US-logo.png)](https://unconventional.school) **We support and equip communities, organisations and local ecosystems to imagine new ways of creating, transforming and collaborating.** [Follow us on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-unconventional-school/) #### Get In Touch [hello@unconventional.school](mailto:hello@unconventional.scholl) Copyright © 2026 THE UNCONVENTIONAL SCHOOL [Política de Privacidad y Cookies |](https://unconventional.school/politica-de-privacidad-y-cookies?hsLang=en) [Aviso Legal](https://unconventional.school/aviso-legal?hsLang=en) [Declaración de Accesibilidad](https://unconventional.school/declaracion-de-accesibilidad?hsLang=en) ![ES\_Financiado\_por\_la\_Unión\_Europea\_RGB\_POS](https://unconventional.school/hs-fs/hubfs/ES_Financiado_por_la_Uni%C3%B3n_Europea_RGB_POS.png?width=3522&height=921&name=ES_Financiado_por_la_Uni%C3%B3n_Europea_RGB_POS.png) ![logo\_footer\_es](https://unconventional.school/hs-fs/hubfs/logo_footer_es.webp?width=341&height=71&name=logo_footer_es.webp)