Registration open
Aracaju
March 20 and 21, 2027
Two days in person with Michael McCarthy and the MOVA mentors, an online prep session beforehand and an international Boston EDU certificate.
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The future is already happening. What will your role in it be?
An immersion by MOVA NETWORK and Boston EDU for young people 14 and up: two intense days of learning and practice with Michael McCarthy, who teaches at Harvard, and mentors with international experience.
Michael McCarthy
- Harvard
- MIT Sloan
- Harvard Business Review
- For
- Young people 14 and up
- Format
- Online session and two days in person
- With
- Michael McCarthy and MOVA mentors
- Certificate
- International, Boston EDU
Editions
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The program
The future needs people who create, lead and make things happen. You can be one of them.
An idea can become a project. A project can grow into a company. And discovering the strength of your own voice can change how you show up in the world.
Over 15 years of work with young people in the United States and other countries, the founders of IMPACT have helped develop more than 2,200 young leaders. A track record devoted to sparking talent, widening horizons and building the confidence to turn possibilities into reality.
MOVA and Boston EDU present IMPACT: two intense days of learning and practice with Michael McCarthy, who teaches at Harvard, and mentors with international experience.
Power Skills: competencies also developed in Harvard's professional development programs, and more important than ever in the age of artificial intelligence.
- Analytical and creative thinking
- Resilience, flexibility and agility
- Leadership and social influence
- Motivation and self-awareness
- Communication
- Negotiation
- Empathy and active listening
- Curiosity and lifelong learning
The program also covers entrepreneurship, an essential skill in this new era: spotting opportunities, structuring projects and business ideas, and exploring how to turn them into companies.
The world is being reinvented. Your ideas can be part of what comes next.
The six pillars
What you will learn
IMPACT brings together six pillars to help you widen your vision, build skills and turn what you learn into choices and actions. All of it through hands-on challenges, shared experiences and guidance from professionals and mentors.
Innovation
Innovation and a view of the future
Discover how new ideas and technologies are changing the way we study, work and live. Follow your curiosity, question ready-made answers and learn to look at problems from different angles. Innovation starts when you see a possibility and ask yourself: how can I do this better?
Mindset
An entrepreneurial mindset
Build an entrepreneurial eye to spot opportunities, understand needs and imagine solutions that create value. Learn to ask questions, take initiative and treat challenges as part of learning. In a world reshaped by artificial intelligence, this mindset helps you see new paths to create projects, products and businesses.
Power Skills
Essential human skills
Build the skills to learn, handle challenges and act with confidence in the age of artificial intelligence: analytical thinking; resilience, flexibility and agility; leadership and social influence; creative thinking; motivation and self-awareness; negotiation; empathy and active listening; curiosity and lifelong learning. Through hands-on activities and group challenges, you turn these skills into actions that matter at school, in your relationships and in building your future.
Action
Turning ideas into action
Walk the path from having an idea to building a project or business. Learn to define the problem you want to solve, identify who your solution is for and build a value proposition. As a team, plan the first steps, test possibilities and explore how an idea can become a product, a service or a company.
Communication
Communication, persuasion and negotiation
Your ideas deserve to be heard. Learn to organize arguments, speak in public with confidence and listen to understand. Practice presenting proposals, handling different opinions and negotiating solutions, building communication that brings people together and opens doors.
Transformation
Leadership that creates change
Leadership starts with how you act and what you do with what you learn. Reflect on your values, recognize the effect of your choices and discover how to contribute to the groups you belong to. Build leadership grounded in responsibility, collaboration and initiative to make a difference around you.
How it works
The journey starts before the immersion
An online prep session, two days in person, and learning that stays with you.
Before
Preparation and connection
About 45 days before the immersion, an online session covers the program guidelines, the prep materials and the cases you will work on. A first contact to spark questions and arrive ready to take part.
During
Two days to learn and put it into practice
Over a Saturday and a Sunday, participants meet in person with Michael McCarthy and the MOVA mentors. Group activities, discussions and challenges connect the IMPACT pillars to young people's real lives.
After
The learning continues in your choices
The experience is a starting point for applying new skills at school, in personal projects and in the next steps of your path.
International certificate Boston EDU
Participants who complete the program receive an international certificate issued by Boston EDU: a record of this learning experience for their résumé and academic path.
Who leads it
International experience to inspire a new generation
Educator, entrepreneur and mentor
Michael McCarthy
- Harvard
- MIT Sloan
- Harvard Business Review
An educator, entrepreneur and mentor, Michael McCarthy has taught at Harvard for more than 12 years, through the Division of Continuing Education, to professionals and executives from many countries. His work brings together leadership, collaboration, entrepreneurship and human development.
Mentors who will be by your side
MOVA co-founder
Gianlucca Lima
BS in Marketing and MBA in International Business from Lynn University, in Florida. Admitted to eight American universities, he built his education between Brazil and the United States, with recognition in debate and public speaking.
MOVA co-founder
Bernardo Barbosa
A Business Administration graduate of FGV, with academic experience at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and time spent in the United States and Nigeria. He mentors young people and teaches artificial intelligence, a field he has focused on since 2022.
Gianlucca and Bernardo work alongside participants through the program's activities and challenges, helping each young person develop their ideas and put them into practice.
The book
A conversation between generations. A look at the future.
THE STUDENT OF THE FUTURE (O Aluno do Futuro), by Gianlucca Lima and Michael McCarthy, with a special contribution from Bernardo Barbosa, brings together reflections on education, careers and the skills of a new generation. Launching worldwide in Portuguese, English and Spanish, the book widens a conversation that IMPACT puts into practice: how to build your path in a changing world.
Your ideas deserve a voice. Your future deserves this move.
The first IMPACT edition takes place in Aracaju on March 20 and 21, 2027, and registration is open.