Jens Heitland

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We are colleagues because we actually pay the teenagers for work experience.

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They're obviously amazing teachers and amazing students in those spaces, but actually how many teenagers lives are being changed by this and we realize they're not.

And on top of that, that's being pressurized just in this whole system. That's a pressure cooker in itself. So that the relationship that we develop with the teenagers in that system, if we do it, is not as good as our direct to teen programs. Because actually we get to be in our programs where we direct with teenagers, not school, not home.

And so we're not a teacher or a parent, we're a colleague because we actually pay them for work experience. And that gives us an entirely different relationship. And it opens up a relationship with the teenagers where we see their best. We have awesome time with our teenagers. They are brilliant, fantastic minds.

And the results of what they produce speak for themselves because we are seeing large corporate partners like Aviva picking up their ideas and running with them