Global School for Entrepreneurship

Global School takes learning by doing to new heights: from day 1 you will practice real entrepreneurship skills by creating and validating actual business propositions. Over the course of 4 years students learn about themselves, their purpose, leadership skills and how to create propositions that add real value to the lives of customers and society.

Sustainability - How do you create an authentically sustainable business? We explore the connection between values, purpose, societal challenges and systemic impact to develop businesses that build a better future.

Anthropology for Entrepreneurs - With cultural anthropologist Anne Knoop, I developed a unique module that combines two seemingly unrelated worlds. What can entrepreneurs learn from anthropologists? Students practice explorative and participative research methods, layering information and connecting different findings to get a deep understanding of their target group and the themes relating to their proposition.

Value Creation - The entrepreneurs get acquainted with value propositions, empathy maps and business models, briefly summarized as the WHAT, the WHO and the HOW. Students learn which questions to ask in order to really understand who your customer is, and how to answer those questions. In true learning-by-doing style, students are challenged to go out and get information on a weekly basis, giving each other feedback along the way.

LEAN Start-up & Validation - Based on the LEAN Startup-theory of Eric Ries, Noorderwind has created a course in which students acquire hands-on experience with failing fast and failing small.


Design Thinking - Creativity is chaotic and non-linear by nature. You can bring method to madness though, by understanding the basic phases of design thinking and how to apply them to generate validated solutions to complex problems.