Enterprising Youth or Youth Entrepreneurship - A Conversation with Nicole Dyson

Nicole Dyson is a multi-award-winning educator and entrepreneur,
and a global authority on project-based learning and youth
entrepreneurship. With an extensive background in school teaching
and leadership in the public education system in Australia, she
is the founder of Future Anything, an award-winning education
provider that works with 15000+ young people (and their
educators) each year. Nicole also founded YouthX, Australia’s
only startup accelerator program for school-aged entrepreneurs,
and Catapult Cards, a design thinking toolkit for classrooms and
corporates that donates 50% of its profits back to providing
micro-grants for youth-led startups.


Future Anything was the winner of the Xero Outstanding
Micro-Business Award at the 2021 Lord Mayor’s Business Awards and
was listed as one of only ten initiatives around the globe
realizing the employment and entrepreneurship ambitions of young
people in the Prince’s Trust Group’s Report (2021) on The Future
of Work. Future Anything was also the winner in the 2023 Business
Champion Awards for Oustanding Education Services.


Nicole was listed in the inaugural 40 Under 40 for Queensland in
2023, as well as winning the ‘Gamechanger Award’, recognizing a
person who has “re-written the rules of business to challenge,
inspire and spark significant change.” She was also recognized in
The Educator’s “Most Influential” list for 2023, acknowledging 45
educators significantly influencing culture and reform within
Australia’s education sector, and was the recipient of SBE’s
‘Unsung Hero’ Award in 2022.


Social Links


LinkedIn: @nicdyson


Instagram: @nicdyso_ / @Future_Anything


X: @nicoledyson