Unlock the Leader in You
Explore
- What good leadership looks like
- Personal strengths
- Transformative moments
- Attitude and choices
- What it means to lead yourself
Outcome
Greater self-awareness
For Parents · Build Your Best Life™
Helping Young-Adult Athletes Navigate Life Beyond the Field.
Your player is preparing for more than the next game, season, team, college, or career.
They're preparing for life.
Project OTY gives young adults a structured space to step away from the noise, think about who they are, determine what they want from their future, and build a practical Roadmap for getting there.
Personal Leadership • Confidence • Accountability • Life Navigation
Why Project OTY
The Game Is Changing.
Growing up has never been simple.
Today, young adults are navigating an extraordinary amount of information, opportunity, pressure, comparison, uncertainty, technology, expectations, and change.
At the same time, they're being asked some very big questions:
- What are you going to do?
- Where are you going to school?
- What career do you want?
- What's your plan?
But before young people can confidently answer those questions, there are even more important questions worth exploring:
- 01Who am I?
- 02What matters to me?
- 03What am I good at?
- 04What does success look like for me?
- 05What kind of life do I want to build?
- 06Who can help me get there?
Project OTY gives young adults something increasingly rare:
Time and structure to think.
Not to tell them what their future should look like.
To help them determine it for themselves.
The Soccer Connection
The Skills That Build Great Athletes Also Build Great Lives.
On the Field
- Vision
- Preparation
- Practice
- Coaching
- Teamwork
- Resilience
- Accountability
- Performance
In Life
- Vision
- Goals
- Strengths
- Support
- Leadership
- Adaptability
- Accountability
- Confidence
Athletes already understand something powerful:
Success rarely happens by accident.
- You develop a vision.
- You prepare.
- You practice.
- You listen.
- You adjust.
- You rely on teammates and coaches.
- You respond when things don't go according to plan.
- And you keep moving forward.
Project OTY helps young adults apply that same mindset to their lives.
Tap a skill
See how what they learn on the field shows up in life.
Who It's For
Built for a Transformative Time in Life
Project OTY is designed for young adults navigating the years when life begins changing quickly.
The Athlete
Thinking about life beyond the next season.
The Student
Considering college, training, work, or other possibilities.
The Explorer
Not sure yet what comes next — and that's okay.
The Planner
Has goals but wants greater clarity about how to reach them.
The Emerging Leader
Ready to build confidence, accountability, and leadership skills.
The Young Adult
Learning how to make increasingly independent decisions.
They do not need to have their future figured out.
That's the point.
Project OTY meets young adults where they are and helps them think more intentionally about where they want to go.
How It Works
A Roadmap for the Game of Life
Project OTY isn't another class telling young adults what they should know.
It's an interactive experience that gets them thinking.
Build Your Best Life
Explore
- What success means personally
- What they want their future to look like
- What motivates them
- Fears and obstacles
- Their bigger vision
Outcome
Greater clarity
Plan Your Next Move
Explore
- Goals
- Next steps
- People who can help
- How to turn a big vision into achievable actions
- How to adjust when plans change
Outcome
Direction + support
Become a High Performer
Explore
- Accountability
- Ownership
- Habits
- Focus
- Confidence
- Continuous improvement
Outcome
Greater confidence and personal responsibility
The Result
A personalized Roadmap and Life Navigation Profile™
A living picture of:
- Who I am
- What I want
- Why it matters
- Where I'm going
- What I'll do next
- Who can help me
What They Gain
More Than a Roadmap.
Project OTY helps develop capabilities young adults can carry into college, work, relationships, athletics, and life.
Confidence
Better understand themselves and feel more prepared for what's ahead.
Self-Awareness
Recognize strengths, motivations, fears, habits, and opportunities for growth.
Personal Leadership
Understand that leadership begins with how they lead themselves.
Accountability
Learn to take ownership of decisions, actions, goals, and outcomes.
Direction
Move from “I don't know” toward clearer possibilities and next steps.
Critical Thinking
Think beyond immediate choices and consider the bigger picture.
Goal Setting
Turn ideas and dreams into measurable steps.
Resilience
Recognize that plans change — and learn how to adjust rather than quit.
Communication
Become better able to articulate what they want, need, value, and hope to achieve.
Support
Identify the coaches, parents, teachers, mentors, friends, and others who can help.
Strength Recognition
Better understand what makes them uniquely valuable.
Future Thinking
Begin thinking beyond the next semester, season, or decision.
The goal isn't to give young adults all the answers.It's to help them become better at finding their own.
Safety & Trust
Their Life. Their Voice. Their Roadmap.
Project OTY was designed to empower young adults — not define them. The experience asks thoughtful questions and provides a framework for reflection.
The learner does the thinking.
The learner creates the vision.
The learner determines what success means.
The learner identifies their goals.
The learner builds their Roadmap.
We don't tell young adults who they should become.
We help them think more deeply about who they want to become.
Empowering — Not Prescriptive
Project OTY doesn't assign a career, personality type, life path, or definition of success.
Reflective — Not Therapy
Project OTY is a personal leadership and life-navigation experience. It is not therapy, counseling, psychological treatment, or medical care.
Human-Centered
Technology helps organize the experience, but the purpose is to strengthen human thinking, reflection, relationships, and support.
Age-Appropriate
Questions are designed to encourage healthy reflection about strengths, goals, leadership, choices, support, and the future.
Transparent
Parents and participating organizations should be able to clearly understand what the program does, why it exists, and how information is used.
Built Around Ownership
Young adults are encouraged to take greater ownership of their decisions rather than becoming dependent on technology or someone else's answers.
Privacy, Data & Sharing
What Gets Shared — And With Whom?
Parents should know how their young adult's information is handled.
So should every learner.
Project OTY Is
- A life-navigation experience
- Personal leadership development
- Structured reflection
- Future planning
- Confidence building
- Goal setting
- Accountability development
- Strength discovery
- Support-network building
- A living Roadmap
Project OTY Is Not
- Therapy
- A psychological diagnosis
- A career-placement test
- A personality label
- Someone deciding your child's future
- A replacement for parents, coaches, teachers, counselors, or mentors
Project OTY doesn't replace the important people in a young adult's life.
It helps young adults engage those people more intentionally.
Social Proof
What Learners Say
96%
of participants have reported feeling more confident about their future.
“I enjoyed reaching out to my friends and family asking them what they thought my unique strengths were. Their feedback was super confidence boosting.”
“I liked being able to take a step back and look at myself and the future paths I want to take.”
“To be able to see things about yourself that other people might see in you that you don't always see. To have a better plan for your life — personally or professionally.”
What Educators & Leaders See
“The Build Your Best Life Roadmap curriculum ties together so much of what we are trying to accomplish, to get young people to consider, create, and take responsibility for who they want to be and how they can get there.”
“It doesn't matter who you are. It starts with where you're at currently and walks you through a process of defining where you want to go.”
“After completing Project OTY... I heard more students say that they felt better prepared to face their future.”
“Project OTY is the most comprehensive solution I've seen for developing future-ready young adults.”
Former Division I Athlete • Father • Founder • TEDx speaker • Leadership Coach • 30+ Years Developing People & Organizations
A Message From Our Founder
Why We Built Project OTY
Hi, I'm Jeff Otis.
Long before Project OTY, I was an athlete.
I grew up in Oregon playing sports and eventually became a Division I baseball player at Oregon State University. Like many young athletes, I had a picture in my head of where life was going.
I wanted to play professional baseball.
Then an arm injury changed that plan.
Very quickly, I had to begin answering a much bigger question:
Now what?
That experience stayed with me.
Over the next 30+ years, I built companies, led thousands of people, coached young adults, raised three daughters, and spent countless hours talking with leaders, educators, parents, employees, students, and athletes.
And I kept seeing the same challenge.
We spend enormous amounts of time preparing young people academically and athletically.
But somewhere along the way, we assume they'll figure out how to navigate life.
- How do I make good decisions?
- What am I good at?
- What does success mean to me?
- How do I handle uncertainty?
- What happens when Plan A doesn't work?
- Who should I ask for help?
- How do I become accountable for my future?
- How do I navigate life in today's world?
Those questions became the foundation for Project OTY.
I didn't build Project OTY to tell young people what to do with their lives.
I built it to help them become more confident in figuring that out for themselves.
As a father, coach, former athlete, and leader, that's the outcome I care about most.
Help young people build the confidence to lead their own lives — while knowing they don't have to navigate them alone.
— Jeff OtisFounder, Project OTY The O.T.Y. stands for "Outstanding & Talented You"
Parents Still Matter
Their Independence Doesn't Mean They Need You Less.
One of the hardest transitions for parents is knowing when to lead, when to coach, when to ask questions, and when to let a young adult find their own answer.
Project OTY can create a healthier starting point for those conversations.
Instead of
“What are you going to do with your life?”
Imagine asking
- “What did you learn about yourself?”
- “What does your future look like right now?”
- “What are you excited about?”
- “What's getting in your way?”
- “How can I support you?”
Project OTY can give young adults language for conversations they may not otherwise know how to start.
Sometimes the most powerful thing we can give a young adult isn't an answer.
It's the confidence and support to discover their own.
FAQs
Questions Parents Ask
The Final Whistle Will Eventually Blow.
Their Life Will Just Be Getting Started.
Soccer can help shape who they become.
Project OTY helps them intentionally think about where they want to go next.
Give young adults the opportunity to step away from the noise, understand themselves, dream bigger, build a plan, surround themselves with support, and move forward with greater confidence.