Nicole Dyson is a globally recognised expert and practitioner in project-based learning and student entrepreneurship. She is the founder of Future Anything, an award-winning, curriculum aligned entrepreneurship program for high school students.

The program puts Year 9 students in the driver’s seat of entrepreneurship, challenging young people to come up with their own innovative enterprise solutions to tackle some of the world’s greatest problems. She is also the founder of MAYK, an online tutoring and learning platform. As well as her companies, Nicole is a contributor to the Foundation for Young Australian’s YLab program and an Australian delegate for the G20 Young Entrepreneur’s Alliance.

As a teacher in the USA, UK and Australia as well as a Head of Department and Head of Year at some of Queensland’s top performing public schools, Nicole has repeatedly led the design and implementation of whole school changes to support future ready learning, placing young people at the forefront of co-designing contextually relevant solutions that empower young people to be the change they want to see in the world.

As the Director of Future Learning at Education Changemakers, Nicole leads the development of future ready curriculum with teaching teams nationally and internationally, empowering educators to co-design learning experiences that tangibly link to life outside the school gates. Nicole is an engaging and skilled facilitator, panellist and speaker who is a passionate advocate for equity, the future of education, empowering young people to own their potential and women in entrepreneurship.

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