FORGE YOUR FUTURE

Are you ready to FORGE your future?

Helping Young Adults Build the Self-Awareness, Skills, and Confidence to Create a Life and Career of Their Own

Know Yourself. Lead Yourself. Build Your Future.

The transition from high school or college into adulthood and the workplace can be exciting—but it can also be overwhelming.

Young adults are suddenly expected to make important decisions about careers, money, relationships, independence, and their future, often before they have had the opportunity to fully understand who they are, what they value, or what they want their life to look like.

FORGE Your Future™ was created to help bridge that gap.

“I am already feeling very encouraged and hopeful.”

“I truly hope that through this process he can uncover his potential and better understand what makes him uniquely him. I’ve sensed for years that he has been navigating through life unsure of his potential and what direction is right for him.” — FORGE Parent

FORGE is Talent Spear’s young adult development program designed to help emerging adults build the self-awareness, confidence, practical skills, and personal responsibility they need to successfully navigate adulthood, college, career, and life.

Rather than simply telling young adults what they should do, FORGE helps them discover who they are, what matters to them, where they want to go, and how to take ownership of getting there.

A Partner for Young Adults—and Their Parents

As parents, you’ve spent years pouring love, support, wisdom, and opportunity into your child. You want them to become confident, capable adults who can build meaningful careers, manage their responsibilities, make good decisions, and create lives they are proud of.

But there comes a point when even great advice from Mom or Dad can be difficult to hear.

Sometimes young adults benefit from another trusted voice in their corner.

As a father of three sons, I understand that transition personally. Through FORGE, I serve as a coach, mentor, advocate, and accountability partner—reinforcing many of the same values parents have worked years to instill while helping young adults begin taking greater ownership of their own lives.

The goal isn't to create dependence on a coach.

The goal is to develop a young adult who increasingly knows how to coach, lead, and advocate for themselves.

The FORGE Development Journey

Every FORGE participant begins by developing the personal foundation necessary for long-term success.

PHASE I — KNOW & LEAD YOURSELF

Weeks 1–6 | The FORGE Foundation

Before deciding where you are going, it helps to understand who is doing the driving. During the foundational phase, participants develop greater clarity around their strengths, values, emotional intelligence, identity, confidence, resilience, goals, personal responsibility, and self-leadership.

The six-week foundation includes:

Strengths-Based Self-Awareness & Career Clarity — Using CliftonStrengths® 34 to understand natural talents, patterns, and potential
Self-Awareness & Emotional Intelligence — Understanding values, motivations, emotions, triggers, stressors, and personal drivers
Identity, Confidence, Resilience & Self-Care — Developing personal standards, healthy boundaries, confidence, resilience, and sustainable habits
Blanchard Self Leadership® — Taking responsibility for success while identifying and challenging limiting beliefs and Assumed Constraints
Goal Setting & Action Planning — Turning strengths, values, and aspirations into measurable goals and intentional action
Early Adult Navigation & Financial Foundations — Building ownership, proactive problem solving, workplace awareness, and foundational financial discipline

The first six sessions create the common FORGE foundation. From there, participants can continue into specialized development tracks based on their goals.

“I gained a better sense of direction.”

“Joseph helped me understand and apply my CliftonStrengths, communicate my value, build meaningful professional connections, and carry myself with confidence. His coaching helped me gain a better sense of direction and gave me tools to keep improving well beyond our sessions.”

— Recent FORGE College Graduate

Career Development & Early Career Success

Explore Your Direction. Build Career Momentum. Succeed at Work. The Career Development Track helps young adults translate greater self-awareness into career direction and practical workplace success.

Participants learn to:

Explore career paths aligned with their strengths, interests, values, and goals
Use tools such as O*NET to investigate occupations and career possibilities
Develop short- and long-term career objectives
Build a professional network through LinkedIn, professional associations, and events
Strengthen resumes and job-search strategies
Prepare for interviews and communicate their value effectively
Build career momentum through intentional action and follow-through
Navigate workplace relationships and expectations
Manage up and advocate for development opportunities
Communicate professionally and strengthen executive presence
Build healthy boundaries, adaptability, resilience, and proactive problem-solving habits

Participants can continue through progressively deeper levels of career coaching and workplace-readiness development.

PHASE II — NAVIGATE YOUR CAREER & OTHERS

Weeks 7–9

Career exploration, networking, job seeking, professional communication, workplace navigation, and career momentum.

PHASE III — LAUNCH & SUCCEED

Weeks 10–12

Transition coaching, mentoring, workplace readiness, accountability, and support applying FORGE principles to real-world career and life challenges.

Financial Development Track

Build the Habits Today That Create Options Tomorrow.

FORGE participants may also continue from the six-session foundation into a specialized Financial Development Track focused on developing the knowledge, habits, discipline, and decision-making skills young adults need to become increasingly financially independent.

The financial pathway builds from the same FORGE principles of self-awareness, goal setting, responsibility, and self-leadership and applies them to areas such as:

Money mindset and financial behaviors
Budgeting and cash-flow management
Saving and emergency preparedness
Credit and responsible borrowing
Debt management
Understanding compensation and employee benefits
Investing and long-term wealth building
Financial goal setting
Major financial decisions
Building healthy financial habits and accountability

One foundation. Multiple paths forward.

More Than One-on-One Coaching

FORGE is designed as a growing young-adult and family development community, with multiple ways to participate.

FORGE Parent Connection

Parents play an important role in the transition to adulthood, too. Our monthly parent meeting provides parents with practical tools, perspective, and a supportive environment for discussing the opportunities and challenges that come with helping a young adult become increasingly independent.

Topics may include communication, motivation, boundaries, accountability, career development, financial independence, letting go appropriately, and learning how to shift from parent-as-director to parent-as-advisor.

What Young Adults Build Through FORGE

FORGE helps participants:

Discover and confidently articulate their strengths
Better understand their values, motivations, and personal drivers
Develop emotional intelligence and self-awareness
Build confidence, resilience, and personal responsibility
Establish meaningful goals and follow through on commitments
Explore career possibilities and create a practical career direction
Strengthen communication and interpersonal effectiveness
Learn to advocate for themselves professionally
Develop healthy boundaries and sustainable habits
Build foundational financial knowledge and discipline
Navigate the transition from dependence toward independence
Become more intentional about the person—and professional—they want to become

Assessments & Development Tools

Depending on the program selected, FORGE participants may receive access to professional development assessments and tools such as CliftonStrengths® 34, PeopleMap™, Blanchard Self Leadership®, O*NET career exploration resources, and customized Talent Spear coaching activities and action plans. Eligible veteran and first-responder families receive a 10% program discount.

“Clarity, patience, and purpose.”

“Joseph was instrumental in helping my son land a job. He guided him with clarity, patience, and purpose...empowering him to present his best self with confidence.”

— FORGE Parent & Regional Vice President

Your Dreams for Them. Their Future to Build.

Parents can open doors, provide wisdom, and create opportunities. Eventually, however, young adults have to decide which doors to walk through. FORGE Your Future™ helps them develop the self-awareness, skills, confidence, and personal responsibility to begin making those decisions for themselves.

Whether your young adult is preparing for college, finishing school, searching for a first career opportunity, struggling to find direction, learning to manage money, or simply trying to figure out what comes next, FORGE provides a structured place to begin.