ABOUT US
We create opportunities in the spaces where imagination, agency, and futures thinking thrive - spaces that bring diversity together to tackle big questions and stretch the way we think.
Our work isn’t about preparing people for just a job or a single path. It’s about helping young people face change with clarity, navigate challenges with courage, and make meaningful contributions to the futures they’re shaping.
In short: we help them happen to the future.
Meet Our Founder
Kia ora,
I’m Kylie - a teacher, strategist, and future-thinker who has spent more than a decade working alongside young people. I’ve taught in classrooms, led large-scale education projects, and even picked up a master’s degree in change and organisational resilience along the way (which sounds fancier than it felt at 2am when I was still editing footnotes).
But honestly, standing in front of a classroom as an educator is where the real lessons hit. It’s impossible to ignore how rapidly the world is changing. That’s why I believe my role is to give young people more than just what’s on the curriculum - something that helps them face complexity with confidence. Workbooks and PowerPoints are fine, but they won’t exactly prepare you for AI, climate disruption, or the fact that half the jobs of the future haven’t even been invented yet and the other half probably won't exist.
That conviction is what led me to start Good.Ed. We’re not here to churn out cookie-cutter graduates. We’re here to create Expeditions, courses, and experiences that give young people the readiness, relevance, and resilience they need - along with imagination, courage, and the quiet confidence to keep going even when the path isn’t clear.
Sometimes that looks like taking students on an international Expedition to see the future up close. Other times it’s a guided online programme like Future Folding, where a paper crane becomes a doorway to foresight and agency. And sometimes it’s simply creating a space for banter - the kind that sparks better questions and builds stronger communities.
At Good.Ed, our aim is simple: to empower good futures. Not perfect, glossy, brochure-ready futures (spoiler: those don’t exist) - but real ones. Futures where young people see themselves not as bystanders, but as participants in shaping what comes next.
So thank you for being here. The future isn’t waiting for us to figure it all out. But together, we can make sure young people are ready to step into it - with curiosity, courage, and maybe even a laugh or two along the way.
With hope (and a bit of humour),
Kylie Horgan
Founder, Good.Ed
HOW WE WORK
For purpose. For youth. For good futures.
We’re a non-profit organisation - here for impact, not profit. Every project, programme, and partnership is designed to serve our mission: helping young people happen to the future.
We work alongside youth, schools, communities, and organisations to design experiences and learning that stretches thinking and empower good futures.
Does this sound like a cause you’d want to support?
The more support we receive, the more young people we can reach - and the more free resources we can provide so everyone has access to futures learning.
If you’d like to be part of this mahi, we’d love to hear from you.
OUR STORY
Our story started with a fraction: 32/34
That was the number of students in the class who, when asked a simple question - “what do you think about the future?” - answered with fear, worry, or anxiety.
32 out of 34 didn’t talk about possibility. They spoke of pressure.
They worried about the world - about climate, about inequality.
They worried about themselves - about whether they’d ever get a job, or whether they’d lose one.
These worries were real. And they revealed something deeper: young people who had done everything asked of them - collected credits, passed exams, ticked the boxes - but still couldn’t see how it connected to a future that felt increasingly uncertain.
So we stepped back. And we dug deeper.
Through research, practice, and lived experience, we explored strategic foresight, futures literacy, and innovation in education. We saw how learning could shift - from reactive planning to imaginative design, from compliance to curiosity, from measurement to meaning.
But we also saw a deeper problem: this kind of thinking was only reaching a small group of students. Futures literacy was treated as a bonus - an extra for gifted programmes or well-resourced schools.
It shouldn’t be. And it can’t be - not if we are serious about equity. Every young person deserves access to powerful learning that helps them understand the world and act within it.
That’s why we created Good.Ed as a non-profit: to reduce barriers, expand access, and bring this kind of learning to life.
Because 32/34 shouldn’t be afraid of the future. They should be ready to happen to it.