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Cohort over content
The lasting thing is the people you read and rehearse with. We work hard on cohort balance, not just curriculum.
Founded in 2018 above a printer on Princess Street, Zojalico runs short, applied programmes in leadership mindset and educational materials for senior practitioners. About sixty Fellows a year. Deliberately small.
The professional development industry sells speed. Five-day intensives. Three-week sprints. Monthly cohorts. None of it is unsuitable; almost all of it is unsuited to the people we work with — senior practitioners revising the shape of their next decade.
Zojalico is a slow studio in a fast city. We treat leadership mindset as a discipline that has to be taught the way disciplines have always been taught: slowly, in cohorts, by people who have done the work.
The result is a studio that runs six programmes a year, admits about sixty Fellows, and never grows faster than its own attention can carry.
The lasting thing is the people you read and rehearse with. We work hard on cohort balance, not just curriculum.
The seminar room is a small fraction of the work. The rest is rehearsal, correspondence and slow revision.
Our faculty are senior practitioners writing on the disciplines they ran for twenty years.
Programmes run six to twenty-six weeks for a reason. The disciplines we teach are bodily; they cannot be rushed.
Two rooms on the first floor of a Victorian printers above Princess Street, five minutes from Piccadilly and the school of management at the university.