About us
We believe education is about nurturing the life and the world we want to see tomorrow. It is about opening minds, reflecting on one’s direction, safely exploring uncharted waters, collaborating for a higher purpose. At Forward College, we empower students’ full range of intelligences – cognitive, social, emotional, practical – to help them navigate a fast changing world and shape the world we hope for.
Climate change, artificial intelligence, growing inequalities, wavering democracies and rising citizen engagement pose urgent challenges as much as they open new opportunities. We are at a crossroads.
In order to tackle such important challenges, we need to arm the next generation of students with new skills, new knowledge, and a new mindset, empowering them so they can shape these transitions in a positive way. Never before have our challenges required so much positive leadership.
In times of change, we need talents able to understand such complex challenges but also to reach out and engage people across different fields of expertise, organisations, cultures, and social barriers for a shared purpose. This is what we call positive leadership.
Hierarchies are eroding in the business world as they are in government, politics or community life: it is becoming more and more complex to lead. Positive leadership is about knowing how to trigger engagement, how to empower all contributors and voices for a shared purpose.
Fostering positive leadership is at the core of Forward College’s founding philosophy. Its development requires the mobilisation of 4 forms of human intelligence: cognitive, social, emotional and practical.
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The ability to identify, analyse and solve problems based on knowledge.
Cognitive intelligence covers skills such as:
The ability to decipher others’ feelings, beliefs and mindset and influence them.
Social intelligence covers skills such as:
The ability to understand and manage one’s own emotions.
Emotional intelligence covers skills such as:
The ability to react and adapt to new contexts in an effective way.
Practical intelligence covers skills such as:
As part of our personal development programme, students will go through annual coaching sessions and work on their 360 profile. They will reflect on their strengths and development needs, define development priorities and strategise on their future career.
*The graph represent the progress of a student skills development between the start and the end of Term 1.
We believe that teaching and learning should address all forms of human intelligence.
Whilst cognitive intelligence is developed within the academic study of the Bachelor’s and boosted by our active learning pedagogy, social, emotional and practical intelligences, as they are recognised to develop mainly through experience, demand another set of learning activities.
This is why we have designed a range of activities that fit this particular purpose:
As a result, learning at Forward College does not only derive from readings, courses and exercises but also from a broad variety of activities and situations that constitute the material of the students’ experiences.
This is how they grow and become better experts in their field, better learners, better friends, better citizens… a better version of themselves.
Having worked in leadership positions in Government, major Tech companies, social business, and higher education, Boris, Céline, and Jeffrey have witnessed how positive leadership relies not solely on expertise and rational thinking but also on other forms of intelligence: social, emotional and practical.
At the heart of their vision lies a desire to develop a model for higher education that is more holistic and fit for the future of work and the challenges the 21st century will bring.
