Our Work-Applied Learning (WAL) model has been specifically developed for managers, leaders and entrepreneurs to learn how to plan and implement change in their organisations, and undertake practitioner research.
A GCWAL licensing arrangement enables select organisations to deliver our change programmes using the Work-Applied Learning (WAL) model. These organisations don't simply license a methodology — they become custodians of it.
The WAL change model has been refined over more than 40 years of practice across Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, the United Kingdom and beyond. We remain actively involved in every licensing relationship — providing ongoing quality oversight, facilitator support, and programme assurance at every stage.
This is not a franchise. It is an alliance built on shared values, genuine commitment to people development, and the belief that organisations can only truly change when the people inside them learn how to lead that change themselves.
Every WAL programme is grounded in four decades of published practitioner research. The model has been continuously refined through doctoral studies, international academic partnerships, and real organisational change projects across Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, the United Kingdom and beyond.
GCWAL's research is published in the Journal of Work-Applied Management and documented across books, conference papers, and doctoral theses — forming the evidential foundation of every programme we deliver and license.
Explore the Research Centre17 volumes of peer-reviewed practitioner research published since inception
Strategic partnership with the Action Learning, Action Research Association Ltd, formed in 1991
GCWAL licenses the WAL model to select corporations and government agencies — enabling them to build genuine, internal change capability through GCWAL-certified facilitators drawn from within their own leadership community.
This is not a franchise. It is an alliance built on shared values.