Career design for the age of AI

The career ladder is being rebuilt while you're standing on it. We help you find solid ground, one experiment at a time.

Design the career you actually want.

A structured programme, backed by research not guesswork, that helps you explore, test, and build the career that actually fits you.

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The method

Most career advice tells you to decide. We help you experiment.

The Career Design Loop is the structured system at the heart of every FPI programme. Five stages — repeated as you learn — that take you from uncertainty to clarity through evidence, not guesswork.

1

Discover

What energises you, what fits

2

Envision

Plausible directions worth testing

3

Explore

Small real-world experiments

4

Build

Proof of skills and outputs

5

Position

A story you can confidently tell

The courses

Four programmes. One method.

Each programme is built for a different stage of life and work.

For students & early career

Future You

A 4–6 week programme for students and recent graduates. You'll move from uncertainty to a clear direction — backed by real-world experiments and a professional narrative you can confidently tell.

Start with a free session

For high-performing professionals

Clarity for the Future

For professionals who are succeeding but unsure of what's next. Find direction, sharpen your positioning, and design what comes after the climb.

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For mid-career changers & returners

Pivot Course

For those moving between fields, returning after a break, or rebuilding after change. We help you translate your experience and test new paths with confidence.

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Coming soon

2-day immersive · Spain

Knowledge Retreat

Two days of deep work on your direction, identity, and next chapter — alongside a small group of curious peers. A reset, not a holiday.

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Why FPI

A different kind of career company.

Future Proof Initiative was built by two researchers after years of working with students and professionals navigating uncertainty in a world shaped by AI, portfolio careers, and constant change. Traditional career advice was built for a linear era. We built something for the one we're actually in.

Research-led

Built by two senior researchers with PhDs, a decade of teaching and mentoring, and years of practitioner research on how people make choices under uncertainty. The Career Design Loop is what came out of that work.

Action over advice

Most career tools tell you what to think. We get you doing — running small real-world experiments that produce evidence of what actually fits.

Positioning as the output

You don't just leave with clarity — you leave with a credible way to talk about yourself, a portfolio of proof, and a path you can defend.

Who we are

Built by researchers who've been in the room.

Dr Leila Kellgren, Co-founder of Future Proof Initiative

Dr Leila Kellgren

Co-founder

Leila has spent more than a decade studying how people make decisions under uncertainty — and why capable people struggle not from lack of ability, but lack of clarity. She co-founded FPI to give people the framework they were never handed.

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Raghavi Koti, Co-founder of Future Proof Initiative

Raghavi Koti

Co-founder

Rag has spent nearly two decades working at the intersection of psychology, human-centred design, and career development. Through FPI, she helps people move from confusion to clarity — through evidence, not guesswork.

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Free ebook · 35 pages

Careers Are No Longer Linear.

A field guide to designing the new career.

Future Proof Initiative

Free guide · 35 pages

Design your career in the age of AI.

The career model you were taught no longer works. This is the field guide we use in Future Proof sessions — the full Career Design Loop, why clarity is built rather than found, and the concrete experiments to start running this week.

  • → Why the linear career model has broken down
  • → The 5-stage Career Design Loop, with worked examples
  • → Career experiments you can run this week

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Voices

Built with students, not for them.

What students and professionals have said after working through the FPI process — across the courses we run for graduates, high-performers, and people changing direction mid-career.

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Graduate · Future You

It gave me a feeling of liberation. Less stressed about having to focus on one linear career path.
Lola, 23 Future You cohort
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Graduate · Future You

It made me think that it's okay to freak out — but also that action is necessary.
Bella, 24 Future You cohort
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Professional · Clarity for the Future

I'd been ticking every box for a decade and still couldn't say what I actually wanted. This gave me a way to find out — by testing, not just thinking harder.
Senior strategist Clarity for the Future cohort
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Professional · Pivot Course

I came in skeptical that another career programme could help. I left with real evidence of what fits — and a way to talk about my next move that I actually believed.
Mid-career pivot Pivot Course cohort
3 dates open this summer

Book your free Career Design session.

A live group session where you'll work through the first stage of the Career Design Loop with your own situation — and leave with a clear next experiment to run. Online, 45 minutes, run monthly.

Thursday 18 June 2026 · 19:00 BST · Online
Thursday 16 July 2026 · 19:00 BST · Online
Thursday 13 August 2026 · 19:00 BST · Online
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