Reboot: Alternative Business Education for Adults by Harrison Moore and John Hughes on Maven

Reboot: Alternative Business Education for Adults

An immersive, hands-on course blending art school know-how and strategic thinking to help you launch a side hustle or creative pursuit.

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Hosted by

Harrison Moore and John Hughes
Mixing art and strategy to help creative projects thrive.

Education & Experience

Course overview

Imagine if art school and business school had a baby

Artists and entrepreneurs can learn a lot from each other. They both make things, break things, change things, and go first.

At Reboot, we blend the practical frameworks of entrepreneurship with the raw, experimental approach of art making—and we're proud to say that we are more art school than business school! 👩‍🎨

You’ve probably taken courses before that teach you “how to” do something. Reboot is different. It helps you see possibilities beyond the usual. It’s for people who know there's more out there for them but need a fresh perspective on how to get started. We’re like that cool teaching assistant who comes to your school and shows you that there’s a whole world outside your classroom, ready to be explored.

Whether you're looking to try out a new side hustle, turn a creative passion into a fully fledged business, or just explore a new creative endeavour for the heck of it, Reboot will help you mobilise the resources and unlock the potential within you and your ideas.

WHAT PREVIOUS STUDENTS ACHIEVED

Reboot is live, immersive, and action-packed. You’ll work on real projects that are meaningful to you. In our last cohort, our students achieved the following:

📖 An accountant from the UK completed his debut novel and received feedback from a global publisher.
🚬 A Service Designer from India developed research into addressing tobacco-chewing addiction.
👩‍🎓 A Marketing Management Trainee from the Philippines launched a side hustle mentoring school leavers to secure spots at top universities.
💼 A Google Director from Ireland transitioned her 1-2-1 coaching into a group coaching business.

In short, you won’t just learn—you’ll do. And you'll do it all in a tight community like no other.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Reboot is a highly interactive course with live instruction, hands-on projects, and personal coaching sessions. There are 8 live workshops (90 minutes each) plus 4 one-on-one coaching sessions with peers and course instructors, Harrison and John. All sessions are live and designed to give you the tools and the confidence to move your ideas forward—and enjoy yourself too.

COURSE CONTENT

How to think like an artist
How to keep pressure positive
How to shift mindset from fixed, to growth, to agile
How to bring more work into your art and more art into your work
How to scale a project by building trust with a core group of believers
How to craft a vision for success that is personal, creative, and deeply satisfying
How to understand your "five salaries" (financial, social, educational, psychological, and freedom)

You’ll also get:

✨ Optional homework to put concepts into practice between sessions
✨ 1-on-1 coaching to help you apply the course principles to your project
✨ Access to a 24/7 platform to post progress and collaborate with your peers

WHO WILL BENEFIT MOST FROM THIS COURSE

✅ Butchers, bakers, candlestick makers— anybody!—who wants to bring their ideas to life
✅ People who are tired of conventional courses and want a fresh perspective
✅ Those who are ambitious, curious, and open to thinking differently

WHO THIS IS NOT FOR

👎 This isn’t a get-rich-quick scheme or a grow-my-audience scheme
👎 This isn’t for people looking for a rigid, step-by-step business course
👎 This isn’t for you if you aren’t ready to embrace experimentation and uncertainty

Reboot is for you if

You have an idea—whether that's solving world hunger or painting a feature wall—and you need some creative direction to get going.
You run a business or organisation and you're looking for a fresh perspective on how to enhance it or take it in a new direction.
You know you have more to offer in your life and you want to have more meaningful conversations and find the others.

What you’ll get out of Reboot

Create a compelling vision for your business, side hustle, or creative pursuit through imaginative exercises and peer-to-peer coaching
Learn to distil your vision into a clear, actionable narrative that motivates yourself and others. Engage in interactive discussions and exercises that sharpen your ability to communicate your ideas effectively, making them compelling and memorable.
Take stock of the skills, experiences, and relationships you've already developed and identify where you can build from the past
Delve into your personal history to recognise pivotal moments that shaped your skills and networks. This exploration fosters self-awareness and opens avenues for growth, enabling you to build on existing strengths as you move forward with confidence.
Experiment with a range of creative techniques for identifying mainstream and less conventional ways of making things happen
Engage with diverse creative techniques that challenge conventional thinking and spark innovation. From philosophical explorations to practical applications, you’ll experiment with methods that encourage experimentation and bold action in your projects.
Develop an actionable plan using different artistic approaches, including the philosophical, the strategic, and the practical
Turn your vision into a tangible action plan by integrating various artistic methods. You’ll learn to set achievable goals and milestones while cultivating the discipline to execute them, ensuring your creative pursuits gain momentum and traction.

What’s included

Live sessions
Lifetime access
Community of peers
Certificate of completion
Maven Guarantee: This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.

Course syllabus

Hear from previous Rebooters

Reboot is a program that helps you find yourself. It’s about setting yourself an intention and working your way through that intention. It doesn’t matter if it’s personal or professional. It gives you the tools to assess where you’re at right now, where you want to get to, and it helps you find your own way to that destination.

Vridhi Argawal, Service & Business Designer, India
Reboot gave me different ways of thinking, different ways of approaching problems. And not just for the projects we were working on; it’s a much broader application than that. It helped me to understand myself better. And it also helped to challenge me to think, “Actually, can I make this stuff work?”

James Pennock, Senior Tax Director, UK
Reboot is a program about creative exploration. You’re going to meet new people. You’re going to think deeply about the projects you’re pursuing. And along the way, you’re going to discover whatever it is that you’re trying to find, whatever it is that matters to you.

Linart Seprioto, Marketing Management Trainee, Philippines
Reboot gave me an opportunity to really think hard. I had a lot of business problems that I took to Reboot and it became quite pivotal. Without it, I just wouldn’t have spent the time or the attention. That unrushed time to self-reflect openly, verbally and from the heart was very liberating.

Natalie Bagnall, Business & Executive Coach, Ireland

Meet your instructors

Harrison Moore

Harrison has exhibited art in 20 international exhibitions, and even presented his sculpture to the Queen of Norway. He made history as the first artist to join the Royal College of Art's prestigious business incubator, InnovationRCA, established by Sir James Dyson, where he built a successful ConTech company. Today, Harrison writes a popular blog on creative thinking, serves as a Writing Mentor at the renowned Write of Passage school, and has published the first book in a series about the lifestyle designs of locals he meets while travelling as a digital nomad.

John Hughes

John has worked in Africa, South Korea, USA and across Europe leading personal growth programmes. He studied natural sciences at Cambridge University and applies these principles in his consulting practice, Radical Strategy, bringing fringe ideas to mainstream audiences. John co-founded Farnham Mediation, a network of lawyers and psychologists working with families. He has developed Energy Meter, enhancing the public understanding of energy supply and demand. And John organised the first public talk by adventurer Lucy Irvine about her Castaway experience.