Big Leadership Adventure (BLA), is Big Education’s ambitious leadership programme, now renamed Big Education Leadership Programme. It was first offered in 2019, with a new cohort starting each year. It has been designed as a ‘what’s next?’ alternative to the current national leadership qualifications offer in England. BLA is oriented towards those leading in schools, Multi Academy Trusts (MATs), Local Authorities (LAs), third sector education organisations or other related organisations to help them drive change, develop a new paradigm for education and become more expansive leaders.

Through its philosophy (curriculum), values, intended participants, design principles, learning processes and stated outcomes in its theory of change, The Big Education Leadership Programme is a uniquely different programme. Its evaluation, consequently, has aimed to capture and explore its intent and impacts it is working to achieve.