Get Ready—SHIFT HAPPENS in July 2025!
A Space for Financial Capability Practitioners to Connect, Learn & Create Lasting Change.
Welcome to the 2025 Bright Minds Experience & Training Conference, a powerful two-day gathering for changemakers at the intersection of financial capability, youth empowerment, and community resilience, with a Totally Tubular 80s theme!
Now proudly partnering with Jump$tart Florida and FSU Federal Credit Union!
This isn’t your average conference. It’s a hands-on, heart-forward experience where real voices, practical tools, and bold ideas come together to move the needle for LMI and ALICE families across the country.
🟦 DAY 1: Bright Minds Youth Impact Symposium featuring Bright Ideas Live
This isn't a youth showcase—it's a training, designed by youth, for you.
Day 1 features the voices and insights of high school interns from the Bright Minds Business Consultants summer program. Through storytelling, real-time training, and peer-to-peer consulting, these students will deliver the Bright Ideas Live series—an interactive experience created to help financial professionals better reach Gen Z, especially those from LMI and ALICE communities.
🔍 Featured Sessions Include:
- “What Works for Us” – How Gen Z actually learns money habits
- “Beyond Budgeting” – Teaching behavior, not just math
- “What NOT to Say to Youth” – Language that motivates vs. lectures
Also included:
- Youth-led panels and small group discussion
- Designing youth programs that scale
- Opportunities to ask real questions and get real answers
Insight. Innovation. Youth Voice in Action.
🟩 DAY 2: Financial Capability Practitioner Conference
Day 2 is all about you—the changemaker on the front lines of financial empowerment.
Dive into behavior-focused workshops, peer exchange, and implementation-ready strategies designed for those serving financially vulnerable populations. Whether you're managing a grant, launching an internship program, facilitating workshops, or guiding families one-on-one, you’ll walk away with tools you can use immediately.
🧠 Topics May Include:
- Coaching for behavior change, not just budgeting
- Leveraging data for impact storytelling
- Funding partnerships, cross-sector collaboration, and more
Expect candid conversations, powerful insights, and a room full of peers who “get it.”
💥 Why Attend?
- 2 powerful days of connection, innovation, and action
- Hear directly from youth consultants on what actually works
- Learn from peers and leading practitioners across sectors
- Get inspired, equipped, and recharged for the work ahead
- Support the future of financial capability and workforce development
📅 Mark Your Calendar:
Tuesday, July 8 – Youth-Led Training: Engaging & Empowering Gen Z
- 10:00 AM – Pre-Conference: Bright Minds Shark Tank Presentations
(Free and open to all attendees)
- 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM – Conference Sessions & Lunch Included
Wednesday, July 9 – Practitioner-Led Workshops & Peer Exchange
- 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM – Full-Day Conference Sessions
REGISTRATION
Yeah, we know—financial capability is important work. But who says learning can’t be high-energy, youth-powered, and actually fun?
At the Shift Happens Conference, we’re bringing real insight and real voices together with an unapologetically bold vibe. This is two days of interactive sessions, youth-led strategy, and practitioner-to-practitioner truth bombs that will recharge your work and your why.
So ditch the dull. This summer, learn, laugh, and level up with a community that gets it.
FOR NONPROFITS, YOUTH AND TEACHERS
🎯 The first 10 registrants get in for just $99!
But hold onto your fanny pack—after that, the price goes up by $10 every 10 tickets sold.
👉 So, the sooner you register, the more you save.
Lock in your spot for one of the most innovative events in the financial capability space—where youth lead, practitioners connect, and shift really happens.
Because progress shouldn’t be boring—and conferences shouldn't be forgettable.
Click Here For Nonprofit, Youth, and Teacher Registration
Attending from a Business or Government Agency?
We’re glad to have you! The registration fee for government and for-profit participants is $199.
Every dollar supports real-world training and financial capability development for youth and families across the country. It’s more than a seat—it’s an investment in what works.
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