Strategic learning expeditions in Asia.
Learning Expedition has spent 15+ years taking leadership teams inside the markets shaping what comes next.
What is a Learning Expedition?
A learning expedition (or LEX) is a structured, multi-day immersion that takes executive teams out of the boardroom and into the operating environments shaping their industry: factory floors, product labs, regulators, market leaders. Unlike a study tour, it's built around your organisation's specific questions and ends with a 30/60/90-day action plan.
- Step 01 Boardroom question We start from your organisation's specific strategic questions.
- Step 02 On-the-ground immersion Factory floors, product labs, regulators and market leaders.
- Outcome 30/60/90-day action plan Your team leaves with clear next steps.
Trusted by Leaders Worldwide
Learning Expedition has designed and led programmes for leadership teams at Adeo, Leroy Merlin, E.Leclerc, Faurecia, and SME Centre@SMCCI — as well as members of APM, one of the world's largest CEO organisations.
What Leaders Take Home
Our competitors were not only transforming their technology stack — they were transforming the way decisions were made internally. It completely changed our strategic conversations.
Why Run Your Learning Expedition in Asia?
Asia is no longer where the world outsources — it's where the world looks first.
China has filed more generative AI patents than any other country every year since 2017, per WIPO.
Explore Beijing
Shenzhen moves from prototype to production faster than anywhere else on earth.
Explore Shenzhen
Singapore's regulatory sandboxes have become the playbook other financial centres copy.
Explore Singapore
If your strategy has an 'Asia question', the answer is on the ground — not in a report.
Explore destinationsHow Our Learning Expeditions Work
Every strategic learning expedition follows the same arc: designed around your questions, delivered inside real operating environments, and activated back home.
How a bespoke learning expedition is designedDesign
We start with your strategic priorities, not a standard itinerary. Together we define the two or three questions your leadership team needs answered, then map them to the markets, companies and people in Asia best placed to answer them. You approve every visit before we lock the programme.
- Your priorities, not a standard itinerary
- You approve every visit
Deliver
Over three to five days on the ground, your team sits across the table from founders, operators and decision-makers inside factories, labs, headquarters and platforms. A typical day pairs two or three company visits with a facilitated debrief.
- Factories, labs, headquarters & platforms
- 2–3 visits + a facilitated debrief each day
Activation
Before the expedition ends, each participant commits to a structured 30/60/90-day plan: what to test in 30 days, decide in 60, and embed in 90. Follow-up sessions keep it on track.
- Test in 30 · decide in 60 · embed in 90
- Follow-up sessions keep it on track
Expedition Themes
-
AI & Deep Tech
A learning expedition on AI looks different in Asia. Your team sees it deployed at scale, not demoed on a conference stage.
-
Hardware, Manufacturing & Supply Chain
Shenzhen is the fastest place on earth to move from idea to product. We take teams inside the hardware ecosystem, from component markets to contract manufacturers.
-
Digital Ecosystems & Super-Apps
Asia's platforms wrote their own playbook. From super-apps to mobile-first ecosystems, your leaders see where digital behaviour is heading globally.
-
Sustainability & Green Finance
From Singapore's green taxonomy to China's renewable supply chains, Asia is where sustainability ambition meets industrial reality. We connect your team with the people making it real.
-
Fintech & Digital Finance
Asia leapfrogged the West on digital finance. From Singapore's regulatory sandbox to Hong Kong's capital markets and Hangzhou's super-app payment ecosystems, your team meets the regulators writing the rules and the operators moving billions through them.
Learning Expedition Destinations
We run learning expeditions in ten cities across Asia — and beyond the region in Africa, Europe and America.
-
China
Learning Expedition in Shenzhen
Hardware, manufacturing, and the world's fastest prototyping ecosystem.
Explore Shenzhen
-
Singapore
Learning Expedition in Singapore
Regional headquarters, fintech, and green finance in Asia's gateway hub.
Explore Singapore
-
China
Learning Expedition in Shanghai
Consumer innovation, retail tech, and China market strategy.
Explore Shanghai
-
South Korea
Learning Expedition in Seoul
Conglomerate transformation, beauty tech, and digital culture.
Explore Seoul
-
Japan
Learning Expedition in Tokyo
Precision manufacturing, robotics, and longevity economics.
Explore Tokyo
-
Jérôme Le CarrouFounder & CEO
-
Fredy BusseauStrategic Narrative & Media Advisor
-
Krystal LaiCommunications Lead
-
Nassera TahanoutProject Manager
Meet the Team
Learning Expedition was founded in Shanghai in 2008 by Jérôme Le Carrou, who has spent 15+ years building and operating in Asia and serves as Asia Coordinator for APM.
Today our team, with backgrounds in strategy, storytelling, executive communications and project management, designs and runs every expedition, turning what leaders see on the ground into structured action.
-
2008founded in Shanghai
-
15+years on the ground in Asia
-
10cities across Asia
Ready to Plan Your 2026 Learning Expedition?
Tell us the questions your leadership team needs answered. We'll tell you which cities, companies and people in Asia can answer them — and design a strategic learning expedition around exactly that.
