Autens is a leading education consultancy specializing in 21st century learning models, educational innovation, school architecture and learning space design. 

Autens was founded in 2005, and opened our New Zealand office, Autens Pasifika in 2021. Autens has extensive experience with reimagining education, planning and designing innovative school facilities and learning spaces not to mention professional development preparing schools for the future of learning.  

Autens strongly believes that learning should be joyful, meaningful, personalised and co-created in strong learning communities engaged in real-world challenges – and learning spaces should be designed to mirror the learning vision and the needs of the people using them, inspiring creativity of all kinds, embracing diversity and opening many paths to learning.

We inspire and co-create strategic, organizational and physical frameworks for learning cultivating meaningful learning journeys and valuable lives for learners of all ages.

We are part of an active global eco-system of thought-leaders in education playing active roles in Association for Learning Environments, Planning Learning Spaces and leading Global Schools Alliance, a network for some of the world’s most influential schools such as High Tech High, Liger Leadership Academy and Green School in Bali. 

We are also part of the HundrED.org community’s top 100 innovators, who continuously inspire our work and adds to our joint capacity for change.

We regularly do keynotes, interviews for podcasts, articles etc and take part in think tanks and advisory boards.

Every single person you will meet from Autens is passionate about creating positive change. The world is a fantastic place, and there is an abundance of opportunities to impact the lives of children and young people, enabling them to live a sustainable, passionate life of value to themselves, their communities, and our shared world.