Cultivated Academy
The Cultivated Academy is a place for people who want to understand how work really works—and develop the clarity, communication, creativity, and learning skills that turn ideas into value.
Cultivated Academy
A curriculum for people who want to study better work.
Editor’s Note: Cultivated is organised as follows: a Library (public canon), an Academy (structured study), a Studio (living laboratory), and a Thinking Partnership (applied work with organisations).
This page is the Academy — where the body of thought becomes structured learning.
What the Academy Is
The Cultivated Academy brings together the core books, courses, and programmes that form the Cultivated curriculum.
These are paths of study — designed for people who want depth, coherence, and application in real work.
The Academy is built on a simple thesis:
Clarity creates alignment.
Alignment creates momentum.
Momentum creates value.
Everything here exists to help you move from insight to practice — and from practice to lasting change.
How Cultivated Fits Together
Cultivated operates as a modern publishing house and learning institution:
The Cultivated Library
The public canon. Timeless essays, frameworks, and free guides.
A curated body of thought on work, communication, creativity, learning, and systems.
The Cultivated Academy
Structured study of the canon. Books, courses, and programmes that turn ideas into capability.
The Cultivated Studio
The living laboratory. Systems, tools, notebooks, drafts, seminars, and reflective work — where the canon is tested and evolved.
Thinking Partnership
Applied work with leaders and organisations. Observation, sense-making, and intervention to reduce the friction between idea and value.
Together, these form a coherent ecosystem:
ideas are published, studied, tested, and applied.
How Learning Is Designed
Cultivated programmes are:
- principle-led, not trend-driven
- practical, not theoretical
- calm, not performative
- designed for real conditions, not idealised environments
They are built for people who believe better thinking leads to better work.
The Cultivated Curriculum
The Academy curriculum is organised around a small number of core territories:
- how ideas become value inside organisations
- how clarity improves leadership and decision-making
- how communication creates shared meaning and alignment
- how creativity reframes problems and opens possibility
- how learning sustains progress over time
Together, these form a coherent body of study for modern working life.
To find these and more, head to the Cultivated Shop.
Core Programmes
These are the cornerstone works of the Cultivated School.
The Idea to Value System
A principle-based course on how ideas become real-world value inside organisations.
Idea → Value System
Idea → Value explores how clarity, communication, creativity, and learning combine to shape what actually gets done at work. Rather than treating problems in isolation, it helps you see organisations as connected systems — and understand where good ideas stall, fragment, or quietly fade away.
Available as a video course with companion workbook, or as a workbook-only edition.
The Communication Superpower
A practical system for developing communication as a core skill of working life.
Communication Superpower Workbook
Communication Superpower treats communication not as polish, but as infrastructure — the invisible system through which ideas, intent, and decisions either travel clearly or quietly fail.
A self-paced course book for building clarity at the centre of your professional life.
Workshop Mastery
A practical guide to the craft and responsibility of teaching what you know.
Workshop Mastery - the art and craft of teaching what you know
Workshop Mastery treats workshops as acts of teaching — moments where people genuinely understand something they did not before.
It focuses on learning design, structure, and teaching responsibility, rather than facilitation theatre.
Zero to Keynote
A practical system for turning ideas into compelling talks that create real impact.
Zero to Keynote
Zero to Keynote shows how strong talks are built long before you step on stage — through clearer thinking, stronger structure, and purposeful communication.
Available in print and digital editions.
The Tech Portfolio Field Guide
A practical guide to leading complex work systems with clarity and intent.
The 10 Behaviours of Effective Employees
A practical framework for shaping the everyday behaviours that create strong culture.
The 10 Behaviours of Effective Employees
Culture is not what organisations say — it is what people do, especially under pressure. This framework turns expectations into visible, teachable behaviours.
Take a Day Off
A reflective companion for people who care about their work — and their lives within it.
Take a Day Off
A collection of stories, essays, poems, and visual reflections on attention, identity, pressure, and meaning in modern working life.
Not to instruct — but to restore perspective.
To find these and more, head to the Cultivated Shop.
Who the Academy Is For
The Cultivated Academy is for thoughtful professionals who want to:
- lead with greater clarity
- communicate with intention
- build healthier teams
- think systemically about work
- turn ideas into meaningful outcomes
Leaders, managers, educators, creators, and learners who believe work can — and should — be better than it is today.
The Wider Institution
The Library publishes ideas.
The Academy turns them into study.
The Studio tests and evolves them.
The Thinking Partnership applies them in practice.
Cultivated exists to build a modern library for better work — improving the quality of working life through ideas that last.
This piece forms part of Cultivated’s wider body of work on how ideas become valuable, and how better work is built.
To explore further:
→ Library — a curated collection of long-form essays
→ Ideas — developing thoughts and shorter writing
→ Learn — practical guides and tools from across the work
→ Work with us — thoughtful partnership for teams and organisations