Henley believes in a well-rounded approach to education
For South Africa to prosper, it needs to develop innovative ways of doing business
omy and a better life and future for all.
We are not an academic institution that is divorced from the world. We teach reflective learning, which means that we constantly reevaluate our perceived wisdom, we readdress the assumptions underlying our actions, and we encourage our students to do the same.
For South Africa to prosper, it needs to develop innovative ways of doing business. Our capability in Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship (Henley ICE) is working towards achieving just that. It plays a central role in the transformation of Henley’s students into critical, creative and imaginative thinkers and disruptors, who are able to bring real and impactful change to their workplace environments while also focusing their energies on aligning businesses objectives to the needs of society. With its focus on developing an experimental mindset among our students, Henley ICE has helped many entrepreneurs grow their businesses by thinking out of the box while also helping large corporates achieve agility and flexibility in their business approach and humancentered ways of managing people.
Henley ICE works closely with two of Henley’s other business units — Henley MBaid and Henley FIRE. These two units focus on creating immersive learning experiences for Henley students and corporate executives.
Henley MBaid is about spreading the value of a business school into nontraditional business activities such as start-ups, entrepreneurship and nongovernmental organisations (NGOs). To this end, we work with more than 280 NGOs in South Africa, where our students, as part of their academic and action learning programmes, engage with these NGOs to help them to optimise their business and operating models so that they can be of help to more people.
Henley FIRE (Full Immersion Reality Education) creates short but intense immersive learning experiences for corporate groups in experiential learning environments that are designed to disrupt their thinking, so that they find new, innovative and imaginative ways of working and dealing with complex business problems.
At Henley Africa, we also offer a family-friendly MBA. Studying towards an MBA has always been associated with putting immense strain on the family relationship because of the enormous workload and demand on time. At Henley, we have structured our MBA so that our students can still spend quality time with their families and focus on their businesses while studying. By showing care and empathy for our students, our communities, our society and our world, while at the same time providing world-leading academic qualifications and business skills, we believe we can lead by example and show our students the way to creating a better future for all.