Equip your graduates and new hires with the workplace navigation skills they need to thrive from day one.

The Real Rules

Workplace Success Training for Early-Career Professionals

For Colleges and Universities
For Businesses

The Workplace Readiness Crisis

87%

Employers believe new college graduates lack professional skills needed to succeed

NACE 2024

75%

Recent hires fail to meet expectations

Fortune, Sep 2025

1 in 6

Companies now hesitant to hire recent college graduates

Fortune, Sep 2025

$14,000

Average cost per failed new hire

Stanford Digital Economy Lab

The Last Mile of Success is the Hardest.

Getting hired is just the beginning.

Thriving in the workplace requires a different skill set entirely.

The Real Rules

What Takes Five Years to Learn, Taught on Day One.

The Solution

We teach the fundamentals that can't be assumed and the unwritten rules no one else teaches.

Beyond the Basics

We compress years of learning into actionable insights: navigating politics, building influence, and understanding what drives advancement.

Acceptable to Exceptional

As AI eliminates rote tasks, experiential judgment becomes the differentiator. We teach human skills AI can't replicate.

Timeless, AI-Resistant Skills

Who We Serve

Career Services & Student Success Teams
Strengthen your career readiness programming with the workplace navigation skills that bridge academic preparation and professional success

Corporate Learning & Development
Equip early-career hires with the unwritten rules of workplace success before they struggle to learn them on their own.

HR & Talent Acquisition
Close the skills gap between hired and high-performing.

Group training for
colleges, universities and businesses.

A woman presents to a small group during a meeting in a bright, modern conference room with large windows and white walls, with sticky notes and charts on the walls.

Our Curriculum: Eight Modules, One Complete Foundation

A cohort-based program that takes early-career professionals from uncertain to confident

Foundation Building | Modules 1-3

Student to Professional Transition • Professional Presence • Managing Up


Communication Mastery | Modules 4-5

How to Communicate to Be Heard • How to Hear What Others Communicate


Strategic Career Skills | Modules 6-8

The Compensation Conversation • What Actually Gets You Ahead • Thriving Through Change

A Sample of What your Students/New Hires will Learn:

  • Your boss has a boss and they're your boss too

  • How to decode "corporate speak"

  • Initiative is the super skill that will set you apart

  • You'll lead projects before leading people - learn how to manage from the side

  • The small signals that can build or break your reputation

...and many more insider strategies across all 8 modules

Each insight includes not just WHAT to do, but WHY it matters, HOW to execute it, and WHEN to apply it in different situations.

Flexible Delivery: Workshop series | Capstone course | Onboarding program

Starter Package:
3-module foundation (Mods. 1-3) - $200/person

Complete Program:
All 8 modules - $450/person

Minimum engagement: 20 participants

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The Experience Behind The Real Rules

Led by a Veteran Disney & Warner Bros. Executive

  • Two decades developing early-career talent at Disney & Warner Bros. Discovery

  • Mentored 100+ professionals through the critical first years that make or break careers

  • Deep Gen Z expertise from marketing to this generation, now equipping them for workplace success

  • Led teams through major transformations, bringing lessons in adaptability and resilience to today's early-career professionals

Career Launch Edge founder, Fortune 500 executive with 20 years experience

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