Operator Education · Overview
Education that meets you where you are. The Institute was founded to transfer the best practice built up by early operators to the people opening next, and to teach the advanced material operators actually struggle with.
Fig. 02 · The progression
FoundationExecutive EdMBACredential
// 01 · The ladder
Coworking education built around a career in the industry. Like a career we have stages and the material lands best if you meet it at the right one.
Before you open
Seven modules on everything that is hard to undo: the business model, the site, the positioning and the numbers, the structure, the floor plan, the people and the tech stack. Taught live, two modules a week, finished in a month.
Who gets in
Anyone. No application, no experience testAlongside, at any stage
Short courses that go deep on one domain rather than covering a curriculum. They sit outside the sequence on purpose; you take one when your business has a specific gap, whether that is in year one or year ten.
Who gets in
Anyone. Members and MBA graduates pay lessOnce you’re running
Ten modules over ten months, each taught by a specialist practitioner and anchored in a real operating story; positioning, marketing, sales, product, operations, community, technology, legal, finance and deal-making. AI capability and wellbeing run through all ten as standing themes.
Who gets in
Selective — two years operating and P&L responsibilityThe Institute issues one credential: the CMBA, earned through successful completion of the Coworking MBA. It is permanent; Graduate Membership is optional and does not maintain it.
// 02 · Open now
Take a look at the programmes we are offering, to advance your industry knowledge. Some are instant sign-ups and some require application.
Advanced operator education
Ten months · live & online
One module a month for ten months: live lectures and AMAs with each module's lecturer. Over fifty-five hours of tuition, and every deliverable is an artefact your business will benefit from.
Executive Education
14 weeks · live online
Seven taught sessions and five clinics — working sessions with screen-sharing, not passive Q&A — building an operating system for using AI in a coworking business rather than a tour of tools. Taught live throughout by Pawel Majak. Attendance is the point.
Essential operator education
Four weeks · taught live
Seven modules in a month, two live sessions a week with a Q&A at the end of each. Cohorts are assembled around the people who register rather than a fixed slot, so you tell us your time zone and we group you with peers who can make the same hour. A cohort starts every three months.
In person · Partnership with GCUC
One day · Mindspace Wynwood
Seven sessions in one day: The floor plan, the deal, the members, the pipeline, the tech stack and a printed workbook. Ending with an one hour open forum with all faculty and closing drink. It runs the day before GCUC Miami, so the industry is already in town.
// 03 · In person
In-person learning events run alongside GCUC conferences, so operators who are already travelling get a full day of teaching for the cost of arriving a day early. The first is Miami; more will follow the GCUC calendar. Every event appears here and on the Events page.
Mindspace Wynwood · Monday 5 April 2027 · In partnership with GCUC
A one-day intensive on the five things that decide whether a space works — the floor plate, the deal, the members, the pipeline and the stack. Seven compressed sessions drawn from across the Foundation and MBA curricula, each ending in a workbook exercise, closing with an hour of all-faculty Q&A. Three case operators run through every session — a pre-opener, a single site at year three, and a scaler.
It is a fast orientation and a room full of people at the same stage, not a programme to work through. If you are opening a space, Coworking Foundation is the thing that produces a file. Plenty of people do both — the day is a good way to decide.
// 04 · Routing
The sequence describes a career, not a queue. Most people join it in the middle — and one of these five is almost certainly you.
Where you are
What to take
// 05 · After
Every programme ends, the support doesn’t have to. Membership is where the answers keep coming from: the operator community, the Coworking Wiki, monthly AMAs and the guest speaker series.
Graduate membership
Open to Coworking Foundation completers and Coworking MBA graduates. Membership is optional. Corporate membership programme is in development - Ask us about it.
Next to start
AI for Leaders · The Programme is seven live sessions and five AI Clinics, built around your own operation. The cohort runs from 2 February 2027 to 6 May 2027.