Develop Lifelong Skills to Perform Brilliantly.
A small set of skills and attributes have the highest impact on your future career success—and they are not developed in conventional schooling. Bright, intrepid pioneers come to Futures Forge to rapidly develop these attributes and skills.
Futures Forge’s on-site programs assemble talented, motivated teams of students to grow and learn the skills they need to perform. Our learning approach uses relevant, project-driven, hands-on challenges that prepare students to deliver outstanding work at college, in internships, and as they start their working career.
Are you smart, motivated, voraciously curious, and ready to break the mold to accelerate far ahead of your peers, stand out in college and your job, and excel in all your life? If so, we invite you to join us.
Hear what Ekeoma, MIT 2027 (MIT Skills for Entrepreneurs Course 2024), has to say about how Futures Forge is helping his career!
“Futures Forge completely shifted my mentality on self-learning and self-improvement. In just four days, they illustrated the immense power of rigorous peer feedback and interactive case studies to improve core skills like critical thinking and motivation. I can only imagine the incredible compound effects Futures Forge will produce in a year-long format.”
—Akarsh, MIT 2026 (MIT Skills for Entrepreneurs Course 2024)
Our Courses
Two-Week Skills for Success Course
For: students 15-19 years old, seeking a pre-college summer program and an accelerating experience that prepares them for lifelong learning.
2-week residential pre-college experience in Boston
CURRENTLY ONLY ACCEPTING WAITLIST APPLICATIONS.
Focus:
Learning value of, and current strengths and weaknesses in, the key attributes and skills
Developing tactics for improving these attributes and skills
Consciously exercising the attributes and skills in challenges with peer and facilitator feedback
One-Year Foundational Leadership Course
For: students 18-23 years old, as a gap year, year off, or alternative to college, seeking a massive leap forward in the development of skills for their careers.
6 to 8 week on-site modules in Costa Rica, Argentina, Vietnam; career-equivalent certification; tailored internship to launch a career
Focus:
Developing six key attributes and six core skills that maximize career performance
Deepening motivation and focus for study and work
Gaining a foundation in how business works
Attaining a degree-equivalent certification to begin work
Getting real-world work experience
Consciously exercising all of the above in challenges with peer and facilitator feedback
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Led by the Best, For the Brightest.
Futures Forge's founders and curriculum leads graduated MIT and Oxford, and founded multiple companies (management consulting, devtools startup, hardware startup). We have published books on political polarization, tertiary education, and technical problem-solving, and have jointly coached and managed over 100 top-talent young adults.
The foundation of our companies’ success has always been the rapid development of talented young people; our employees have gone on to found, lead, and accelerate dozens of great businesses. Today, we are developing talent all over the world using the methods we learned and developed.
Accelerate Your Learning Journey
Futures Forge’s Courses help talented young adults to develop the core skills needed to excel in their lives and careers, in team-driven, on-site, challenge-based learning that maximizes motivation and personal connection.
We call our approach “catalytic learning:” we use dynamic, project challenges as the center of a cycle of learning scaffolded by preparation, feedback, reflection, iteration, and multilateral support.
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An Unmatched Growth Experience
Futures Forge inspires and empowers students to teach themselves, and each other, the skills, capabilities, and tools to understand and lead themselves and others, take responsibility in life and the world, think critically, and solve hard problems.
Futures Forge provides objectives and direction, core material, structure, community, guidance and coaching, and starting framework to build the skills needed to effectively learn quickly: much of the direct learning will come through interactions with fellow students in your section.
