For students and early-career professionals

You're not behind. You're using the wrong model.

Design the career you actually want.

The career model you were taught — pick a path, work hard, hope for the best — no longer works. We give you a structured system to navigate work in the age of AI through experimentation, evidence, and clarity.

Free 45-min live session · monthly · open to anyone

What you get

Clarity built through action, not advice.

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

Free monthly sessions

45-minute live Career Design sessions, run monthly. Work through the first stage of the Career Design Loop with your own situation — and leave with one clear experiment to run.

Career Design Assessment

A 7-minute diagnostic that tells you where your edge lies — your strengths, your growth tension, and the career experiments most worth running for your profile.

Future You programme

A 4–6 week structured programme. Build a work profile, run real-world career experiments, develop portfolio assets, and craft a professional narrative you can actually defend.

The method

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

The Career Design Loop is the system at the heart of every FPI session and 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

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Take the Career Design Assessment

7 minutes. Tells you where your edge lies, your growth tension, and the experiments most worth running for your profile. Free, no account needed.

Take the assessment

What students say

"
It gave me a feeling of liberation. Less stressed about having to focus on one linear career path.
Lola, 23Future You cohort
"
It made me think that it's okay to freak out — but also that action is necessary.
Bella, 24Future You cohort

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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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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