Learning Journey:
Leadership
Step into leadership – right from the start!
The Leadership Learning Journey develops participants’ self-organization and collaboration skills from day one. Guided by a structured Learning Guide, participants work largely independently in small groups. Within these Learning Circles, they learn, reflect, practice, and provide feedback—continuously, in short weekly sessions of about 1.5 hours.
To build the full range of leadership skills—or to address specific needs—the program includes six sprints, each consisting of four stages (1.5 hours each). The content is grounded in the latest research, embedded in the dynamics of small groups, and guided through a structured narrative in the Learning Guide. Each sprint is framed by facilitated touchpoints with experienced trainers.
What’s included in the Learning Journey?
The Leadership Learning Journey covers the following core topics:
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Being a leader - Key dimensions of leadership – providing direction, building relationships, and enabling others
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Managing everyday work - Core management functions – effective meetings, decision-making, and self-management
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Leveraging mistakes and conflicts - Mindsets in challenging situations – understanding dynamics, finding solutions, and shaping culture
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Understanding organizations and systems - Navigating uncertainty - feedback loops, relationship systems, and systemic self-leadership
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Mastering hybrid leadership - Leading in hybrid environments – technology, participation, and effective team building
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Living leadership - Strategic leadership – transformation, learning organizations, and effective leadership practices
All content is based on current professional discourse and addresses today’s leadership challenges. The goal is to enable leaders to confidently act as a bridge between the organization and its people.
Each sprint focuses on specific leadership topics and can stand on its own, allowing flexible, modular development aligned with organizational priorities. The Learning Journey can also be paused between sprints and resumed later.
Target audience and objectives
This Learning Journey is built for high potentials, emerging leaders, and project managers stepping into leadership roles – people who want to lead with confidence and real impact. But leadership can’t be learned in theory alone. It requires space to experiment, reflect, and grow. This Learning Journey creates exactly that space: a hands-on development environment where participants actively shape their leadership approach and turn it into everyday practice.
The goal of the Learning Journey ...
is to professionalize leadership in everyday situations and make it immediately applicable – in conversations, decisions, meetings, and challenging situations.
Participants will benefit from:
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greater clarity in expectations, roles, and priorities
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increased confidence in conversations (feedback, conflict, mistakes, sensitive topics)
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more effective meetings with clear outcomes and accountability
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stronger decision-making under uncertainty and time pressure
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more stable collaboration in hybrid and dynamic environments
Because leadership development is a complex personal growth process, it cannot be achieved through short, one-time training. What matters is the balance between learning, application, and feedback.
Based on modern learning science, leadership skills develop iteratively within the Learning Journey – supported by a structured and thoughtfully designed guide. Step by step and sprint by sprint, these skills become embedded in everyday behavior.
Learning – just in time, and at its best.
Format and process
The Learning Journey is highly scalable and is implemented in small Learning Circles of four to six participants. Multiple groups can run in parallel within a team or organization.
Each Circle meets regularly (e.g., weekly) for 1.5 to 2 hours, either in person or virtually, to work through the program together. Each group organizes itself independently.
Guided support and self-organized learning
At the beginning and end of each sprint, all Circles come together in facilitated sessions with a Learning Journey facilitator. These sessions include onboarding, alignment, and evaluation.
The facilitator is also available for support if challenges arise during the process.
Demo:
A look inside the Learning Guide
Each sprint includes a fully developed Learning Guide that leads participants step by step through the stages – combining input, reflection, exercises, real-world application, and feedback.
Pilot companies wanted!
To support the market launch of the Leadership Learning Journey, pilot organizations are being invited to participate.
What’s included:
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preferential introductory conditions and external facilitation
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participation in an anonymized feedback process
The individual sprints (each with four stages and moderated kick-off/kick-out sessions) will be gradually introduced starting in May 2026.
Like all Learning Circle formats from Lernwelt Designstudios, this Learning Journey is also available as a licensed model for independent implementation within organizations.
Interested?
Schedule an info session with Joachim Schmitt – we look forward to hearing from you.