Make the Greatest Impact in College and Your Career.

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 skills in teamwork, leadership, problem-solving, communication, motivation, adaptability, grit, and self-driven learning. Employers and college recruiters look for these skills to select from among the brightest applicants.

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 career.

Are you smart, motivated, voraciously curious, and ready to break the mold to accelerate, stand out in college and internship applications, make an outsized impact at work on day one, and excel in your life? If so, we invite you to join us.

Our Courses

Two-Week Skills for Success Course

For: students 15-19 years old, seeking a pre-college summer program and an accelerating preparation for applications, university, and internships.

2-week residential pre-college intensive in Boston
CURRENTLY ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR 2025

June 15 - June 27

June 29 - July 11

July 13 - July 25

Focus:

  • Learning value of, and current strengths and weaknesses in, the key career attributes and skills

  • Practicing and improving teamwork, communication, leadership, and problem-solving in real-world business simulations

  • Developing tactics for improving these attributes and skills

  • Consciously iterating growth during challenges with intense peer and facilitator feedback

One-Year Foundational Leadership Course

For: students 18-23 years old, as a gap year or college-supported year abroad, seeking a 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

Accepting pre-applications for:

Spring 2026

Fall 2026

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 in finance, operations, design, sales, strategy, leadership, and other business skills

  • Consciously exercising all of the above in long-form, high intensity challenges with extended peer and facilitator feedback

Led by the Best, For the Brightest.

Futures Forge's founders and curriculum leads graduated MIT and Oxford, and founded multiple companies (elite management consulting, venture-backed 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.

We loved leading the 2024 Skills for Success Course and are excited for much more to come in 2025 and beyond.

Futures Forge Alumni Win.

Futures Forge alumni have a dramatic advantage applying for, and arriving at, their universities and internships.

Our alumni are more confident, better leaders, better teammates, better speakers. They are elite problem-solvers and critical thinkers. They have superior grit and adaptability.

It shows in their personal essays, their interviews, and—most importantly—their first day on campus and on site.

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.

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A Battle-Tested Pedagogy for Life

Futures Forge’s Courses diverge dramatically from the high school and college learning systems. Our students learn via the same approach that elite management consultants do: they take on goals and problems with large apertures and high responsibility, receive intensive coaching, and iterate quickly, driving their own learning to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to take on the next challenge.

We call our approach “catalytic learning:” we use dynamic, project challenges as the center of a cycle of learning scaffolded by preparation, feedback, coaching, reflection, iteration, and multilateral support.

Join Upcoming Webinars

Meet founders, facilitators, and alumni at our upcoming webinars this fall. Select below which webinar you want to attend, and you’ll receive an invitation via email.