Adler Foundations Programme
The Adler Foundations Programme draws on principles from some of the sharpest thinkers across finance, business and philosophy — structured into foundations a teenager can build on early.
Delivery: 10 topic sessions weekly, lasting two hours each, with 2 flagship sessions where students apply what they learned.
Financial Literacy I: Positioning for the Widening Wealth Gap
Understanding the structural shifts happening in the modern economy and how to position for them.
Financial Literacy II: The Power of Compounding
How small financial decisions, repeated over time, become enormous ones.
Communication I: Speaking With Clarity and Conviction
What matters isn’t how the idea sounds in your head – it’s whether it lands.
How the World’s Greatest Minds Think
Understanding how to use first principles and insightful questions to think through problems.
The Career Landscape in the Age of AI
Where careers are heading in an AI-driven world – and how to establish your place within it.
The Adler Takeover
Halfway through the Foundations Programme, the facilitator takes a seat among the students and hands them the room. Each student takes a turn explaining their position on something they’ve learned with us — AI and the job landscape, why investing early matters, what defines good judgment. Two of their peers are selected to challenge the speaker’s arguments. The speaker responds, then opens the discussion to everyone else. These are the skills that will separate students from their peers. AI can produce answers in seconds, but it cannot sit in that chair for your child — and neither can it do so for an Oxford tutorial, a crucial job interview, or the boardroom twenty years from now.
Financial Literacy III: Understanding Risk and Long-Term Positioning
How the world’s greatest investors grow wealth and approach risk.
Communication II: Presence, Conversation and Disagreement
The skills that determine the quality of every relationship you have.
Networking: Building Relationships that Compound
Understanding how to build great relationships and why the network you build now will shape the doors that open later.
The Incentive Structures Behind Geopolitics
Analyzing how global powers compete, through the lens of the US-China dynamic, and how it affects your future positioning.
Leveraging AI Without Outsourcing Your Thinking
The importance of leveraging AI and why the people who think independently will benefit most from this structural shift.
Foundations Programme Capstone: The Adler Dialogue
What is the most distinctively valuable version of yourself — and how do you build towards it?
Teenagers spend years in school without once being asked that question. It is the one the whole programme builds toward.
In the final session, each student stands before a panel of adults and makes the case for themselves — not just a list of strengths, but the specific combination of skills and traits that sets them apart. Their skill stack.
The panel is not there to be impressed. They are there to help your child work out what the best version of themselves looks like, and how to build it. A student might demonstrate she is genuinely strong at analytical thinking, mathematics and argumentative writing. The panel might add that if she also builds the ability to speak persuasively to a room without a script, she would have a rare and valuable combination.
Most adults have never done this. After this session, your child will walk away with a clear picture of who they could become, and the direction to build towards.
