Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship (Fast-Track)
This flexible apprenticeship programme provides research and learning for the ever-changing world of business, applying theoretical models to real-life case studies and your own...
Ben Mizen
B.Ed. (Hons)
Lecturer
Department of Business and Law
Biography
Since 2019, Ben has worked closely with apprentices and employer partners on the Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship (CMDA), guiding professional growth through structured academic engagement, reflective mentoring, and applied workplace integration.
His approach is grounded in facilitative pedagogy, supporting learners to navigate the demands of the degree apprenticeship through dialogue, critical reflection, and real-world application. He helps apprentices build the confidence and habits required to articulate their development, apply business thinking in context, and make meaningful links between academic concepts and day-to-day practice.
Ben provides continuity of contact across the programme, working with learners as both Academic Coach and reflective partner. He contributes to assessment and curriculum processes while maintaining a strong focus on individual learning journeys. His practice draws on coaching methods and participatory frameworks that help surface insight, develop leadership capability, and enable strategic thinking.
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Ben draws on more than two decades of professional experience spanning consultancy, facilitation, and youth and community work. Before entering higher education, he held senior roles supporting young people, volunteers, and community leaders across faith-based and voluntary sector settings. This background shaped his practice in reflective learning, safeguarding, and relational approaches to leadership and organisational development.
Since 2018, he has run Ideas Alchemy Consulting, working independently with organisations across the education, public, and voluntary sectors. His consultancy focuses on facilitation, learning design, and team development, often using creative methods to support reflective dialogue, strategic clarity, and adaptive leadership. Engagements have included standalone workshops, multi-session development programmes, and embedded support across periods of change or review.
He is particularly experienced in designing participatory learning environments that centre group process, drawing on techniques such as LEGO® Serious Play, metaphor mapping, and experiential planning tools. His work supports organisations to think more clearly about purpose, surface tacit knowledge, and reflect critically on the cultures they inhabit.
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