Post-school education has the potential to help break the intergenerational cycle of poverty by increasing young people’s employability and earning potential. Studies have shown youth with a college qualification are 14% more likely to be employed and those with a university qualification are 36% more likely to be in employment. Similarly, a college-qualified youth earns 60% more than someone with matric and those with a university qualification earn nearly 1.5 times more. For this reason, Leaders’ Quest works towards strengthening participants school performance. Over the two-year-plus intervention (Grade 11, 12 and post matric), Leaders’ Quest implements different activities based on a mix of theories. The main ones being: personal resilience; emotional intelligence; and servant leadership. All activities use the learning cycle theory as the basis of their design and implementation.