FutureTALEZ™ is being built by a small team of software developers and creative collaborators led by founder Julius Henderson.

We bring together technology, interactive storytelling, and student development around one central idea:

Young people need a place to practice the decisions shaping their lives.

Every day, young people are surrounded by messages competing for their attention.

Every scroll. Every click. Every comment, trend, video, influence, and social interaction can reinforce what feels normal, acceptable, important, or worth following.

Over time, those repeated influences can help shape the baseline from which young people react and make decisions.

FutureTALEZ was created to give them something equally powerful:

A place to practice.

A place to pause before reacting.
To recognize what they are feeling.
To consider another perspective.

And to experience what may happen next.

Because decision-making is a skill—and skills become stronger through practice.

Led by Experience

For Julius, that mission is personal.

Growing up in Compton and South Central Los Angeles, he saw early how quickly pressure, influence, relationships, and a single decision could change the direction of a young person’s life.

His career began working directly with young people in residential and behavioral environments and eventually grew into executive leadership overseeing behavioral teams and professionals serving youth and families.

For more than 20 years, Julius has designed and delivered training, coaching, and development experiences across youth programs, sales organizations, technology teams, entrepreneurs, leaders, and executives.

Across those environments, one lesson continued to surface:

Information alone rarely creates transformation. People need opportunities to think, participate, practice, reflect, and apply what they are learning.

The Work Continues

Today, Julius leads the FutureTALEZ team in turning those lessons into interactive software, immersive stories, and structured decision-making experiences.

FutureTALEZ gives young people a safe environment to practice the moments that can shape real life—while helping educators and youth professionals better understand how students are thinking, feeling, and responding.

We will continue building, listening, learning, and improving alongside the schools and professionals we serve.

Because the world is already influencing how young people make decisions.

FutureTALEZ gives them a place to train for them.

Because choices become futures.