Emerging University of the Future: Team Companies, Library Hubs, Real-World Impact
The university of the future is a team. Make the city your campus and your projects your proof. Build and deliver together, read what expands your thinking, and practice leadership in the field, not just in lectures. Build a career-ready portfolio while driving change locally and globally.
Learners served
480+
Years of practice
8
Sprints per year
6–8
Public showcases
Quarterly
Our Model
Team of Teams. Proof of Work. Community First.
Weekly Rhythm
- Team Coaching (2×/week): dialogue, blockers, commitments.
- Project Sprints (6–8 weeks): paid/pro-bono client work.
- Reading & Reflection: short essays that sharpen practice.
- Leadership Rotations: finance, sales, delivery, community, learning steward.
Evidence & Credentials
- Public portfolio of artifacts and testimonials.
- Micro-badges → certificates → articulated degree credit.
- Transparent rubrics across the 21 skills (enterprise, leadership, civic & ethics).
- Accommodates CPA Experience Pathway learners through competency-based micro-credentials recognized toward professional licensure.
Spaces & Partnerships
- Library-anchored hubs + partner workplaces.
- Coach Academy for quality and scale.
- Employer & civic councils for relevance.
- Veterans peer reintegration labs in library hubs linking lived experience to civic and economic projects.
AI & Human Leadership
Become the Human Interface to AI
We fully incorporate AI into our learning journeys. By embedding AI across projects, we prepare changemakers to navigate and shape a future where human-AI collaboration is a daily reality.
- Every team company blends AI tools with everyday work—from research, writing, and data analysis to design, communication, and strategy.
- Learners gain fluency in responsible, ethical use of AI and understand its limits.
- We develop judgment about when human insight, creativity, and empathy are essential.
- Graduates become the human interface between AI and society so technologies serve people, communities, and the planet.
Libraries & Coffee
The City is the Campus
We anchor teams in public library co-working spaces—visible, inter-generational, and open. Libraries are already a trusted daily hub for many—including homeless and housing-insecure veterans—so they’re the right place to connect services with purpose, and to turn curiosity into projects, clients, and jobs. Add a coffee micro-venture and maker partnerships to accelerate impact.
- Weekly open studio: Tuesdays 1–5 PM (Olympia hub).
- Partner MOUs with libraries, municipalities, SMEs.
- Public showcases build trust and momentum.
Why Libraries?
- Civic trust & inclusive access
- Lower fixed costs → more learning per dollar
- Authentic community briefs for real work
For learners of all ages
Lead from the Emerging Future
Whether you’re 15 or 70, you’ll join a team company and learn by doing: pitch real clients, deliver value, and build a public portfolio. You’ll read, reflect, and practice disciplined dialogue. By the end of every sprint, you have evidence deliverables, testimonials, and micro-credentials that travel with you.
How we embed u.lab & MITx
We integrate MIT’s u.lab (Leading from the Emerging Future) into team cadence. Learners can earn MITx certificates annually while practicing u-school presencing and systems leadership in real projects.
Your Journey (12–24 months)
- On-ramp: vision, learning contract, team charter, safety basics
- Core cycles: 6–8 week project sprints with reading circles
- Milestones: leadership rotations, portfolio artifacts, showcases
Student Testimonials
What Our Changemakers Say
Hania — Team Lead, Global Development Hack (Peru)
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For Philanthropy & Partners
Invest in a Replicable Public-Benefit Model
Why Now?
- Cost/time to value crisis; skills-signal gaps.
- Libraries can restore civic learning & belonging.
- AI era prizes judgment, ethics, creativity, teamwork.
What You Enable
- 90-day pilot across library hubs with public showcases.
- Coach Academy and employer council.
- Annual Impact Report and open data appendix.
Ways to Fund
- Launch grants & naming opportunities.
- Sponsored cohorts & stipends for access.
- In-kind space, tools, and pro-bono expertise.
Global Learning
Peru & Africa: Exchange, Replicate, Thrive
We are building bridges with partners in Peru and across Africa to replicate the model, adapt to local contexts, and grow a network of team companies that trade knowledge and opportunity.
- Exchange sprints and joint showcases.
- Policy briefs that inform legislators & government.
- Localized Coach Academy tracks for sustainability.
What Partners Get
- Replication playbook & quality rubrics
- Coach training and observation standards
- Access to global portfolio & employer network
Competency Framework
The 21 Skills (Evidence Based)
Team Learner
- Data/IT (incl. AI)
- Team Learning
- Personal Learning
- Creativity
- International
- Communication
- Initiative*
Team Leader
- Self-Leadership
- Project Leading
- Team Leadership
- Planning
- Team Coaching
- Strategic
- Courage to Choose*
Teampreneur
- Service / Negotiation / Selling
- Financial Issues
- Marketing
- Innovation
- Entrepreneur’s Modelling / Theory
- Networking
- Courage to Break Boundaries*
* attitudes observed alongside artifacts; micro-badges aggregate toward certificates and articulated credit.
Policy & Public Value
Washington Future Generations Act
Our teams work in public, generating evidence that informs policy—starting with a Washington Future Generations Act concept that aligns education, workforce, and wellbeing across horizons. We translate sprint results into briefings for decision-makers and invite bipartisan feedback.
Civic Evidence
- Iceberg & loop analyses with leverage points.
- Public showcases and stakeholder testimonies.
- Open data snapshots and impact dashboards.
Invitations
- Legislative briefings & community roundtables.
- Employer council & philanthropy salons.
- Library network learning days.
How to Engage
- Co-design pilots with us.
- Fund stipends & coach training.
- Host a showcase or policy lab.
Washington Future Generations Act Policy Brief
See how sprint evidence, public showcases, and library hubs inform a statewide framework aligning education, workforce, and wellbeing.
Get Involved
Come, Changemakers — Let’s Build Together
Tell us how you’d like to participate — as a learner, funder, employer, policy partner, or global node. We’ll respond with a short menu of next steps.
Email: dion@changemakersteamacademy.org
Web: changemakersteamacademy.org • globaldevelopmenthack.com
501(c)(3): Changemakers Team Academy (WA)