Key benefits 

1. Designed with and for young people. The material is relevant, dynamic and interactive, supplementing with what is not taught at school. Online, young people engage on their own terms on a phone, tablet or desktop computer. In person, we work at their pace and use every resource available.

2. Start with mindset, end with your own business. This is the only program for young people that goes from mindset all the way through to launching and running your own business.

3. Earn fully accredited Digital Badges. Three badges celebrate engagement at online, in person, and leadership levels:

Voltstarter: for completing the Short Circuit.

Voltpreneur: for completing the in person Volt Circuit.

Volt Mentor: for helping us deliver the Volt Circuit.

What makes these benefits valuable to young people?

1. Own their future. Get the tools, mentors, learnings to create a bright future, whatever the future brings. 

2. Be a creative problem solver. See problems from a solution-based perspective, and launch these solutions as businesses. Work becomes meaningful and fulfilling.

3. Understand the infinite routes available to success. Set goals and move towards them from a young age – this develops successful habits that last a lifetime.

Our Values

We are ...

Inspiring

We believe that, with exciting and challenging activities along with the motivation, support, and tools, young people will be inspired to unlock their potential and shape the future world.

Accessible

We aren’t just for those who already have big ambitions or ideas. Volt is fun, engaging, and flexible, designed to work for any young person around their education and interests, with different levels of involvement depending on what they would like to achieve.

Powering

At Volt, we give young people the confidence and the resources they need to take control of their own futures. Through hands-on learning and real world experiences, we power them to build the skills and mindset needed to thrive in a rapidly changing world.

Unconventional

We disrupt traditional learning and textbook teaching. Instead, we provide engaging resources and mentoring so that young people can use entrepreneurship skills in everyday life.

Experienced

Our backgrounds in business, education, and youth mentoring mean we have the knowledge, experience, learning culture and connections to help young people shine.

Volt Entrepreneurs came about from a worry that kept me up nights on end. I was worried that while technological developments are happening at the speed of light, the education of my children is still based on the same conventional curriculum that we studied 30 year ago!

How can this possibly prepare them for the highly uncertain and competitive future that lies ahead? Every day we are hearing about jobs being outsourced, factories being replaced by robots, and Artificial Intelligence now capable of solving complex tasks. Imagine what we will be facing in 10 years from now! My kids were not being prepared for this future.

So then, I asked myself, what are the skills that they need to become prepared for this Mad Max-like dystopian world?

I started to research this topic and found that self-made business leaders were in total agreement with my dilemma. Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba said, “We cannot teach kids how to compete with the machines who are smarter, we have to teach something unique. In this way, kids will have a chance”. Vishen lakhiani of MindValley had this to say, “We could be doing a better job helping our children earlier on with developing critical business acumen to be more successful later in life.”

Sarah Blakely founder of Spanx said, “When we tap into the potential of ALL students and empower them to learn and dream beyond their limitations… the world will be a better, brighter and more innovative place. And it’s our job to give them the tools to get there.”

There was the answer I had been looking for! It is the exact same skillsets used by entrepreneurs that can fill the major gap in the conventional education system! These are the skills our children need, but are not being taught. Learning these skills now at an early age will allow them to face anything and persevere with a smile on their face! Unfortunately, I was not able to identify a fully comprehensive, easily accessible and affordable solution... so in true entrepreneurship fashion, I joined forces with my education savvy sister, who fully shares my views and worries, and we set off to build it.

The result has been years of development of an end-to-end entrepreneurial training program based on our 5As system, geared towards the needs of young people.

We focused on how to leverage what they are already learning in school and supplement it with the necessary skills to ensure they have a head start and can use their ideas to shape a bright future. Suddenly, the program took off. Starting initially with our children and a few of their friends in small group workshops in our living room, more and more of their friends were requesting to join our “entrepreneur club” evenings.

Their parents started asking, ‘what are we teaching them?’- their kids had never been so motivated in school, and started seeing creative solutions to problems that we have been surrounded by all of our lives.

Eventually the word about our program spread so far that we had to re-package the content to be transmitted virtually on line. Today we are able to share these learnings and embolden any child with the desire to determine their own future.

All of our courses have been customized and structured around the needs of today’s young people. Soon, they will learn to see the world through a brand new lens. They will inherently look for opportunities where others have overlooked. And, more importantly, they will be equipped with the tools and skills needed to turn those visions into reality, no matter what tomorrow brings.

Join us along with your teens, as they discover the limitless opportunities that are made available by Adopting, Applying, Aiming, Acting and Advancing their skills and knowledge that will shape the future of their dreams!

Fawwaz Khuri

Co-Founder