Design Your Future: Helping Youth Design Life After High School
A Training for career and college advisors, teachers, and counselors
Empower your students to design their futures with intention! In this training, you’ll learn how to integrate design thinking into your advising and counseling practices. In this training you will be guided through a process that helps students identify their strengths, set actionable goals, and develop a growth mindset. Learn how educators are using this framework to foster student ownership over their life path, encouraging them to take charge of both their academic and personal development. Equip yourself with the tools and strategies to help students design their lives with purpose and direction. This training will also be beneficial for you in your professional and personal development.
Overview
Training Attendees:
Advisors, teachers, and counselors seeking to integrate leadership design thinking into their educational practices.
- Training Cost:
- $200 registration fee per attendee
- Upcoming Training Dates:
- April 21, 2026
- Time: 9AM-3PM
- Training Covers:
- 1 attendee per school site
Topics:
- Introduction to career and college design thinking
- Understanding the “flywheel framework” for student growth and momentum
- Helping students identify strengths and set actionable goals
- Strategies for fostering student ownership, agency, and career and college development
- Tools for implementing design thinking in advising and counseling settings
- Building momentum, collaboration, and community engagement around student success
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Trainer
Bio
Mike Smith, founder of The Bay and co-founder of Bay High, integrates skateboarding, music, and fashion into educational platforms for youth. The Bay, an award-winning youth space was recognized by Vice as a “creative haven,” alongside Bay High, transforms education by centering on youth experience. Mike is a Stanford Certified Design Your Life Coach and co-instructor at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln. Mike has earned accolades such as Nebraska Distinguished Entrepreneur Award and Young Entrepreneur of the Year.
Mike has also partnered with Microsoft, XGames, Vans Red Bull, Puma, Tillys, Liquid Death and has been featured in Buzzfeed, Vice and Forbes Magazine.