A six-week intensive for students and young professionals ready to build a professional brand, secure opportunities, and earn from their skills.
You're a student or young professional who is ambitious and hardworking, but you haven't been able to translate your efforts into income, visibility, or credibility.
You're tired of watching people around you move while you're stuck in analysis paralysis, still figuring out where to start.
You know you have it in you. What you need is the clarity, the skills, and the structure to finally turn it into something real.
You're ready to commit to six weeks of no excuses. Showing up, doing the work, and being held accountable for it.
One week of onboarding. Four systems, each taught live with its own worksheet. One week where you present what you built.
Why Coaching? The difference between the Coaching Model and the Advice Model, and why it changes everything.
Two live classes: Design Your Decade, and Soul Healing. Plus two worksheets.
LinkedIn Optimization with personalised review, your CV, and the 14-Day Consistency Challenge begins.
Take the skill you've been learning and package it into an offer people will pay for.
Communicate, network and pitch yourself like the person they cannot ignore.
Your team builds a real project with your new skill. One of you presents it. EA judges. The best Pod wins.
Each system is a module, taught live, with worksheets you actually fill in.
Find your life direction and deal with the patterns holding you back.
Learn a real skill and package it into an offer people pay for.
Create your own CV and position yourself on LinkedIn for jobs and opportunities.
Communicate, network and pitch yourself like the person they cannot ignore.
You learn it during the cohort, package it in week 4, and build with it in week 6.
Most programmes end with a certificate. The Forge ends with you standing in front of a room, defending work you actually built.
I want thisTwelve cohorts. 920+ graduates. Every face here sat exactly where you're sitting now.
Practical assets you can use immediately in your career, business, or professional growth journey.
Something you can sell on Monday, priced by the outcome it delivers.
Learnt free during the cohort, from our course library.
Built with EA's tools and personally reviewed.
Written by you, guided by a CV expert.
Clarity about where your life is going for the next ten years.
In public, on stages, in rooms that matter.
With personalised feedback from EA. Yours to keep and work for years.
Lifetime access to resources, finance systems and opportunities.
And, if you implement, possibly an internship.
Cohort 6 is the one that's open. The rest are dated so you can plan your season.
She has trained 920+ young people across 10 countries. Twelve cohorts in four years. Her students land internships, get hired, and get paid for skills they didn't know they could sell.
Esther is a Talent Development Expert and the founder of Purposeful Development Ltd, a coaching and consulting company for young achievers. She is President of the Purposeful Teens and Twenties Community, present in 10 universities.
She doesn't teach this from theory. She built the system, ran it twelve times, and refined it on real people with real results.
There are plenty more where these came from.
Read more testimonials$20 for international payments
Instalment plans available. Ask us before you talk yourself out of it.
Six weeks. Week 1 is onboarding, weeks 2 to 5 are the four systems, and week 6 is your Pod Presentation.
Once your payment is confirmed you'll get a WhatsApp message with your onboarding details and a link to join the student group, plus a confirmation email. If you don't hear from us within 24 hours of payment, message us and we'll sort it immediately.
Every live session is recorded and available within 24 hours, so you won't fall behind. But show up live where you can. The real-time coaching, the Q&A and the room energy are where the shift actually happens.
Most programmes give you information. The Forge gives you structure. We don't just teach concepts, we walk you through applying them to your life, your goals and your situation. Then in week 6 you build something real with a team and present it. And your coach is a young African who built from nothing and understands this economy and this generation.
Yes. We understand financial pressure. The instalment plan exists specifically for you. Reach out before you talk yourself out of it.
No. You get free access to a course in a high-income skill of your choice: Product Management, CRM and Sales, Video Editing, Graphic Design, AI and Automation, Content Writing, Product Design, Digital Marketing, Data Analysis and more. You learn it during the cohort and package it in week 4.
Plan for four to six hours weekly. One live class, your skill course, communication exercises three times a week, and your worksheet.
Our students have landed internships, jobs and paying clients. Some with fewer than 1,000 LinkedIn followers. But results depend on your implementation, and they vary from student to student. We give you the system and the accountability. You do the work.
Six weeks from now you could still be figuring it out. Or you could be holding an offer, a profile and a plan.
Not sure yet? Ask us anything before you decide.
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