About
Intentional Studio™ was founded by Shanti, a senior leader in global strategy who spent over 15 years shaping some of the world’s most influential innovations across science, technology and health.
Working within fast-moving, high-performance environments offered a perspective on what enables people to succeed beyond academic credentials alone: the ability to think critically, solve unfamiliar problems, recognise patterns, exercise judgement, adapt quickly and communicate ideas with clarity.
Motherhood brought those questions much closer to home.
Navigating education and selective school admissions while raising a child in one of the world’s most demanding cities led to a broader question:
How do we prepare children not simply for the next school, examination or milestone, but for the environments they will eventually need to navigate for themselves?
Our approach is strategic and systems-level. We look beyond individual educational milestones to consider the longer trajectory from the formative years through school and higher education to an evolving professional world and then work backwards to understand the capabilities, experiences and opportunities that may matter along the way.
“Ambition doesn’t have to cost peace. It’s about learning to design life with intelligence, grace, and purpose.” - Shanti
What Intentional Studio™ Does Today
Intentional Studio™ is the research and intellectual-property studio behind the Formative Capability Framework™, Formative Travel™ and our work in UK selective education.
Our approach combines behavioural science, emotional intelligence and emerging research with real-world understanding of demanding professional environments and lived experience of the education system.
We look beyond academic achievement alone to the capabilities children will need throughout education and later life including judgement, independence, adaptability, critical thinking and problem-solving while creating opportunities to discover and develop their own interests and strengths.
Through our frameworks, research and advisory, we apply this thinking across education, the formative years and family travel, helping families make more considered decisions about the environments and experiences that shape their children.
The aim is not to engineer childhood, but to help children become increasingly capable of navigating the world for themselves.
How This Philosophy Shapes Our Consulting
Alongside our research and frameworks, Intentional Studio™ offers private advisory for families who want to apply this thinking to their own circumstances.
Drawing on the Formative Capability Framework™, behavioural science and real-world experience, our approach connects education, capability and formative experiences to help families make decisions that support their child’s long-term potential, not simply the next milestone.
Vision
A world where children develop the capability, judgement and depth to navigate increasingly complex lives without ambition and achievement coming at the expense of wellbeing, curiosity or connection.
Where education and formative experiences prepare children not simply for the next milestone, but to think independently, adapt, make good decisions and thrive in a world that will continue to change.
From The Kensington Diary
Explore the thinking behind Intentional Studio™ through The Kensington Diary, our editorial publication examining the experiences, environments and decisions that shape childhood and family life.