Guiding students through life’s tough decisions

Published: May 6, 2025

Looking back, when you were younger, do you wish you had some guidance when it came to making the really important decisions for your future? What college should I attend? Should I buy the reliable hatchback or the fire engine red mustang? Is this job offer right for me and my future? My guest today has created a tool that can do just that, by leveraging decision science technology to support and empower students as they make these important choices! Joining me today is Matthew Brady, tech entrepreneur, whose career has spanned both sides of the aisle from industry to education.

So the Volley app provides easy tools for tough decisions. We think first about decision templates for the common decisions a student might be making, choosing a car, choosing housing, determining whether to attend school and where, job offers and internship opportunities, even things like travel and relocation which can have different sets of data and different approaches. The app makes those decisions easier by way of providing a framework for how to approach it, the criteria, how to set the weightings that will help you make those determinations, and then how to bring other trusted people into your decision, so family, mentors, counselors, even friends can be a help in telling you the truth in a way that might be hard but might be beneficial to hear.

Interviewed this episode:

Matthew Brady

Volley Solutions

Matt Brady is an entrepreneur and educator. His latest startup is Volley, a collaborative decision optimization platform that helps organizations make important decisions using information, not intuition.

He is also writes and curates content at Human-Centered Technology to promote building ethics & empathy into innovation. The last 4 companies with which he has had an executive role have successfully reached liquidity events, including to world-class strategic buyers and private equity firms.

Matt is a passionate builder of people and organizations. He and his wife Tisha have been married since 2000 and are raising their three teenagers in Denver. Find out more about Matt Brady at MatthewJohnBrady.com.