Partner with LIS
Build your team, develop your people, and tackle your hardest problems — together.
Why partner with LIS?
At LIS, partnerships aren't an add-on, they're built into how we work.
We bring organisations into the heart of the university: collaborating on research, developing your people's practice, and connecting you with a pipeline of interdisciplinary talent ready to tackle complex, cross-sector challenges.
We've worked with organisations across private and public sectors, including the NHS, Innocent, KPMG, Transport for London and The Conduit, and no two partnerships look the same.
Connect with interdisciplinary thinkers
Hire an LIS intern or graduate
LIS BASc students and graduates are trained to work across disciplines, apply frameworks and hold complexity without defaulting to a single-lens answer. MASc graduates bring the same interdisciplinary range plus professional experience. Get in touch to find out how an intern can accelerate your project and bring in new ways of thinking.
Join a network event
Put your organisation in the room with LIS students, alumni and our wider network. Whether you're looking to raise your profile with an emerging talent pool, tap into the experience and knowledge of MBA students, or explore new collaborations, we'll work with you to shape something that works for both sides.
Share opportunities
From internships and graduate roles to MBA consulting projects, fellowships, sector events and funding opportunities, if it's relevant to an intellectually curious, interdisciplinary cohort, we want to hear about it. LIS students are building careers across sustainability, AI and tech, finance, social impact, journalism and the arts. We share partner opportunities through our internal channels throughout the year.
Upskill your team
If you're looking to develop your people's practice, we offer bespoke leadership programmes designed around your organisation's specific challenges, built with the same interdisciplinary rigour that runs through everything we do at LIS.
There's also the option to send colleagues (limited to no more than three from a single organisation, per cohort) on our open Cross-Functional Leadership course, running throughout the year. You can find upcoming dates here.
Hear from our Partners
“The bespoke LIS programme equipped TSB leaders with mindset shifts, behavioural changes and tools they can apply to challenges, but also further developed their enterprise leadership in a way that will benefit the business and the individuals for the future.”
“I highly recommend this programme for its fresh and thought-provoking approach to leadership development. It offers unique insights that challenge conventional thinking and encourage deeper reflection on how we lead in complex environments.”
Tackle your organisation’s problems through a new lens
Tackle your organisation's problems through a new lens
The mission of the Systems Surgery is to provide a space to understand, untangle and suggest changes to the current systems that govern how and what we do to improve our world.
These sessions allow participants to gain new knowledge, apply problem-solving skills and test evolutions and revolutions in a needed area of change alongside peers, industry experts and creative thinkers.
“The surgery encouraged us to consider not only how we can make insurance better, but how we can make our lives better through more efficient and human focused systems as a whole.”
Become an MBA Shift Partner
The LIS MBA is structured around six fundamental shifts reshaping the world: complexity, energy, intelligence, trust, ecosystems and longevity.
As a Shift Partner, your organisation contributes real challenges for students to research and respond to, bringing fresh thinking shaped by their studies.
Places are limited and shaped closely by faculty — get in touch to find out if there's a fit.
Become a BASc Problems Partner
Throughout their time at LIS, our students gain key knowledge and skills from a diverse range of disciplines, with real-world problems acting as a framework for their thinking.
The current problems that form the cornerstone of our degree are: inequality, sustainability, technology and ethics, and urban futures.
If your organisation is operating to tackle one of these challenges (or operates at the intersection of them), we’d love to invite you to integrate your problem into the curriculum as one of our Problems Partners.
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