Nicole Dyson

2024-2025 Obama Foundation Asia-Pacific Leader

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Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Future Anything

Australia

Nicole Dyson is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Future Anything, an award-winning education company transforming what teaching and learning looks like in Australian classrooms. Nicole has impacted over 65,000 students and educators through curriculum programs, teacher professional development, and workshops that aim to create future-ready schools. Nicole passionately believes that youth-led ideas have the power to bend the future and supports educators, schools, and systems to design and deliver future-focused learning that unlocks young people's passion, potential, and agency. Nicole is rapidly scaling Future Anything by leveraging shared company values and drawing on her background as an experienced former school leader in the public education system in Australia.

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