Navigating societal, technological, and environmental changes, the urgent need for transformational change within organizations and society has become a paramount concern. The sustainable development goals (SDGs) necessities innovative approaches that can address complexities and multiple-actor involvement to enable systemic shifts. This paper highlights the urgency of quality education SDG #4 as a trigger point for educational change action. This paper seeks to explore how design thinking can be systematically linked with transformational change and theoretically contribute as process enabler as part of an educational ecosystem. Through actuators, change agents, change processes and reasons for addressing this from a systems perspective is conceptualized in an educational ecosystem. By delving into co-evolutionary dynamics of organizational complexities, this paper looks for ways to establish more resilient strategies for change that also in for future work can further inspire to align efforts with the SDGs.