Simon Breakspear is an internationally recognized leader in education innovation and the founder and CEO of LearnLabs, a global learning strategy and design agency. He has worked with education leaders across multiple countries to help design strategies for 21st century learning. Breakspear identifies five competencies of successful "EDUpreneurs": questioning to drive disruption, exploring purpose-driven impact, iterating rapidly through prototyping, scaling ideas to reach many learners, and hustling with resourcefulness. He argues these competencies are needed to reinvent education and ensure learning is redesigned for the future.

1. EDUpreneurship!
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@simonbreakspear
LEARNLABS
www.simonbreakspear.com

2. Simon Breakspear
Founder and CEO of LearnLabs!
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Simon Breakspear is recognised internationally as a
leading thinker on the future of learning and educational
innovation. Simon is the founder and CEO of LearnLabs,
a global learning strategy and design agency, that helps
school, system, policy and business leaders design and
deliver high-impact strategies to enable 21st Century
learning at scale. He has worked with and spoken to
leaders across Australia, New Zealand, the USA, the
UK, Europe, Canada, Israel, Hong Kong and India. !
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As a passionate educator and learning strategist, Simon
works on systemic challenges in education reform and
redesign. He also advises EdTech start-ups around the
globe that are seeking to develop disruptive education
models to improve the quality and equity of student
learning. Simon holds a first class honours degree in
Psychology, a Bachelor of Teaching, a MSc. in
Comparative and International Education from the
University of Oxford, and is a PhD Candidate at the
University of Cambridge. He was a Gates Scholar at the
University of Cambridge, and Commonwealth Scholar at
the University of Oxford
www.simonbreakspear.com!
www.learnlabs.com!
www.zaya.org!

3. LEARNING HAS NEVER !
BEEN MORE !
IMPORTANT

4. EDUCATION MUST!
BE REDESIGNED

5. WHO WILL WRITE
THE FUTURE
LEARNING STORY?
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6. NETWORKED EDUPRENEURS
WITH A COMPELLING VISION
FOR LEARNING

7. THE FUTURE OF
LEARNING WILL
BE CO-CREATED!
!

8. 5
COMPETENCIES!
of EDUpreneurs![Designed For Action not Reflection]
What can we learn from education pioneers and
innovators from around the globe?!

9. 2. EXPLORE
PURPOSE
DRIVEN
IMPACT
1. Question
3. ITERATE
4. SCALE
5. HUSTLE

10. QUESTION1
Become relentless and insistent
on shifting the status quo

11. !
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What if … ?!
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How might we …?
Disruption Over Delivery Questions

12. Harness Passion as a Driver for Change

13. Continually learn from the best ideas inside
and outside of education.
EXPLORE2

14. Stuck in same...
Tinkering
towards
Utopia

15. A new vision for learning and
teaching
!

16. Rapidly accelerate ideation through connecting with
the best educational ideas on the planet
The cost of being on the leading-edge is $0

17. Meet Stephen Harris, Principal, !
Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning

18. Strategically seek out ideas
from outside education
Medici effect:
Breakthrough insights come
at the intersection of ideas,
disciplines, perspectives,
concepts and cultures.
Be PERPETUALLY

19. Create & improve new solutions through rapid
prototyping.
ITERATE3

20. MAKE and DO
rather than think
& meet
Launch, launch and reiterate
Ship it.
Bias towards action
Go. Go. Go

21. PIVOT
or
PERSEVERE
Reframe Failure as Learning

22. Scale your idea to impact the lives of
as many learners as possible.
SCALE4

23. 10x
Multiply your vision

24. Fazle Hasan Abed
--> Reaches 138 million of the
poorest people in nine countries in
Asia and Africa
"Small may be
beautiful, but
big is
necessary"

25. !
We need to let go of your ideas
Make your idea contagious

26. Leverage the new tools
for mass organisation
without hierarchy
Scale a movement: Networks over hierarchy

27. PioneersLone

28. EcosystemInnovation

29. Demonstrate resourcefulness and
ingenuity to find a way forward.
HUSTLE5

30. "Genius is 1% inspiration
and 99% perspiration."
- Thomas Edison
Execute. Execute. Execute.

31. Embrace Constraints as Drivers

32. 2. EXPLORE
PURPOSE
DRIVEN
IMPACT
1. Question
3. ITERATE
4. SCALE
5. HUSTLE

33. Steward of the Status Quo
!
OR
Architect of New Learning
Designs

34. Go.
Make Innovation
Happen.

35. "Unless someone like you....
cares a whole awful
lot, ....nothing is going to get
better...... It's not."
! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Dr. Seuss!
Let’s redesign learning

36. www.simonbreakspear.com
www.simonbreakspear.com!
www.learnlabs.com!
www.zaya.org!