Building better humans.
We teach young people the skills schools often skip — entrepreneurship, financial literacy, leadership, and the mindset to become their best selves — delivered to your students by our team across NYC.
Leave A Legacy
Our signature entrepreneurship program challenges young people to build a real business that fights a social injustice they care about — then bring it to life and sell it like founders. Many of the students you'll hear from came up through Leave A Legacy.
Build the business
Students design a real venture built to fight a social injustice they care about — purpose first, profit alongside it.
Create the commercial
They produce a commercial that brings the brand and its mission to life — and finds its audience.
Deliver the pitch
They build and present a full pitch deck, selling their idea the way real entrepreneurs do.
Skills for life, not just a test
Each program is built around real outcomes young people can use the same week, and carry for the rest of their lives.
Leadership
Students take ownership of their choices, their voice, and their future through the OWN IT curriculum.
Entrepreneurship
How ideas become businesses — pitching, building, and thinking like an owner instead of waiting for permission.
Financial literacy
How money actually works — earning, saving, and budgeting — so young people make confident decisions early.
Social-emotional
Mindset, identity, and mental health woven throughout, using our D.I.P. methodology.
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The OWN IT Leadership Curriculum
OWN IT is our signature leadership program — a structured curriculum that helps young people own their decisions, their voice, and their future, with mental health and social-emotional learning built in throughout.
It runs on the D.I.P. methodology and adapts to your setting, whether that's a classroom, an after-school program, or a community organization.
Hear from our students
No statistic lands like a young person telling you, in their own voice, what changed.
The D.I.P. methodology
Every program runs on the same through-line — a repeatable system that helps a young person show up as the person they want to become.
Discipline
Build the daily habits that create what you want, long before you feel like it.
Identity
Decide who you're becoming and act like that person now. Behavior follows identity.
Purpose
Anchor the work to something bigger than yourself — the fuel that outlasts hard days.
Michael also helps adults build and protect their wealth through two dedicated practices.
Bring us to your school
Schools, nonprofits, and youth programs across NYC partner with us to deliver this work. Let's build something for your young people.
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