Edventurous
Leadership
Lead Yourself. Lead Others. Lead the Future.
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About Us
Start with Self-Leadership
Before people can lead others well, they must be able to lead themselves. That means:
- taking responsibility before blaming circumstances
- building agency before chasing authority
- developing direction before pursuing status
This is the work we do.
Edventurous Leadership is applied self-leadership for people who want agency, momentum, and direction before life drifts or leadership fails.
Our work sits at the intersection of: Education (academic rigour, psychological insight, and evidence-informed frameworks) and Adventure (real-world learning where outcomes matter and uncertainty is unavoidable).
That could be:
- Choosing what to do after school or university
- stepping into your first professional role
- becoming a parent
- becoming a leader for the first time
Different contexts. Same internal demands.
The Operating System: The Periodic Table of Elements
At the heart of Edventurous Leadership is the Periodic Table of Elements.
It is not a personality test.
It is not motivational hype.
It is a teachable, practical operating system for how people think, decide, and act.
Every Edventurous Leadership programme is built on this framework.
The framework:
- can be applied live (in real time) or retrospectively (to learn from experience)
- breaks self-leadership into clear, usable elements
- gives people a shared language for responsibility, reflection, and agency
Different courses. Different audiences. Same operating system.
Who we work with
We work with individuals and organisations at key life and career transition points, including:
Education Providers
Schools, Colleges, Universities
Supporting young people to build agency, responsibility, and direction early.
Early Career Professionals
Apprentices, Graduates, Early Career networks
Building professional confidence, ownership, and behavioural maturity beyond technical competence.
Leadership Teams
Education and Corporate
Strengthening the foundations that leadership depends on but rarely addresses.
How we do this
Edventurous Leadership works across early life and career stages, adapting the same self-leadership framework to different contexts and responsibilities. Our focus is always the same: helping people build confidence, direction, and consistency when outcomes matter.
Education Providers
Schools, Colleges, Universities
Through assemblies, workshops, and structured programmes, we help students:
- develop confidence and agency
- understand responsibility before authority
- build the habits and judgement needed to lead themselves well
Our work complements academic learning by focusing on the individual, giving students a shared language and tools they can use beyond the classroom.
Explore courses and programmes for education providers:
Early Career Professionals
Individuals, Graduates etc.
Through workshops, programmes, and coaching, we help individuals:
- build professional confidence without burnout
- take ownership of decisions and development
- lead themselves with consistency when expectations are high
This work is especially effective for organisations investing in graduate schemes and early-career talent who want capability to match ambition.
Explore courses and programmes for early career professionals:
Leadership Teams
Education and Corporate
Through tailored programmes and facilitated learning, we help teams:
- strengthen the foundations for leadership
- model responsibility, reflection, and integrity
- create conditions where people can grow and perform over time
This work supports leaders to lead themselves well first, so leadership with others is grounded, consistent, and credible.
Explore courses and programmes for leadership teams:
Book Publications
Self-Leadership for Gen Z
How to have the life you want (Due for release March 2026)
Self Leadership for Parents
How to create the life you want for your family (Due for release January 2027)
The Quartet – A mini-series
Stories of Self-Leadership for 10-16 year olds. (Due for release April 2027)
Testimonials
Viki Veale – Senior Lecturer at St Mary’s University
Lewis is committed to raising professional confidence through professional development, collaboration and building networks of support. Our professional conversations have motivated and inspired us both to keep growing and keep going as we strive to achieve our goals.
Cathy Gower – Dean of School of Education at Brighton University
Lewis is a passionate and dedicated educator, with experience spanning various different contexts, including early years, secondary and higher education. Lewis is a dynamic and innovative educational leader in the early years sector. His work is always underpinned by extensive research and evidence informed practice. It is always a pleasure to work with Lewis because of the energy and commitment he brings to all areas of his work.
Yasmina Oudahi – Graduate
Working with Lewis for the past couple of years has been an experience I will never forget. I have learnt so much from him as a mentor, director, teacher, coach and leader. I could honestly say that I wouldn’t be where I am today without his unwavering support for my Continued Professional Development and his passion for leadership. He has supported me throughout my Master’s degree, through the process of applying for a PGCE, as well as during some challenging periods in my professional life. I have always felt encouraged and uplifted by his positive outlook to CPD, work and education.
Thomas Hutchful – Graduate
Lewis regularly expends considerable effort and time on inviting students’ questions and listening to their perspectives on the subject. Furthermore, he welcomes each student’s point of view regardless of whether it is correct or incorrect. His teaching method encourages students to collaborate and get involved in his lesson. He listens to our concerns about our studies, assignments, and so on and tries to assist us as much as he can. Sometimes our problems are personal and have nothing to do with our course, yet he will listen and do his best to assist us. Also, his responses to our concerns are usually positive, giving the idea that we can be the greatest, even if they are not always what we expected. He always seemed genuinely concerned about his students’ development.
The Journey Behind Edventurous Leadership
Edventurous Leadership was founded by Dr Lewis Fogarty, shaped by more than two decades of experience across education, leadership, and personal development.
Like many people, Lewis’s journey didn’t follow a straight line. It began as a young person trying to work out who he was and where he was going, continued into early leadership roles marked by uncertainty and self-doubt, and has evolved into a lifelong commitment to learning, reflection, and growth.
Edventurous Leadership exists to spark the kinds of conversations Lewis wishes someone had had with him at the moments where outcomes first began to matter: leaving school, starting work, stepping into independence, and taking responsibility for others. Conversations about leading yourself before trying to lead others, building confidence through practice rather than performance, and designing a life with intention rather than drifting into one by default.
Lewis believes deeply that education is an equaliser, particularly education that helps people understand themselves, their choices, and the consequences of how they show up in the world. That belief is why Edventurous Leadership is committed to keeping a substantial amount of content free and accessible, so that access is never the barrier to agency.
Through years of research, teaching, and real-world practice, Lewis has learned that self-leadership is not a trait but a practice — one built through understanding, belief, and consistent action over time. This belief is guided by a simple principle that shapes all of the work: “Never do anything you wouldn’t feel comfortable publicly defending.”
At its core, Edventurous Leadership is about being on the side of who people can become. We work primarily with people in early life and career, as independence increases and choices begin to carry real weight, supporting them to lead themselves well, so they can build lives they’re proud to stand behind.
Our Charity Partners
At Edventurous Leadership we are committed to supporting the development of individuals and communities worldwide. We do this through our collaborative work with the UK registered charity called ConnectED International, do check out their website. Currently we are focused on rural Uganda.
Through working with ConnectED International we are able to support the efforts of community groups to drive the change they feel is most needed. This has included vital resources both physical and intellectual and physically visiting the work. As you can see to the right with our co-founder Lewis and a group of children in a school in the Tororo district, rural Uganda along with Timothy at the back from Ajibu Community, our primary partner operating in rural Uganda.
