Great Career Programs
Aren't Enough...

If Only Some Students Benefit

We help college and university leaders build career strategies that connect academic learning, career services, and campus partnerships to advance enrollment, retention, and student success.

The difference is how the work is designed.

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See the Whole
Career Ecosystem

The Career Design Blueprint™ is our framework for understanding what makes career preparation work across an institution.

It looks beyond individual programs to the structures, relationships, and conditions that determine whether career preparation can reach students consistently and work at scale.

How strong is your career ecosystem?

Take the free Career Design Blueprint™ Scorecard and get a 10-page personalized report identifying your strengths, gaps, and opportunities.

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25 MINUTES. NO PREPARATION. INSTANT RESULTS.

Make Career Preparation Work Across Your Institution

We help colleges and universities solve the strategic and organizational challenges that keep good career work from reaching its full potential.

Build an institution-wide
career strategy

Create a shared vision and align the people, priorities, and resources needed to deliver it.

Strengthen the
career center

Rethink strategy, structure, reach, and the role the career center plays within the broader career ecosystem.

How We Help

Lead complex
change

Build support, navigate organizational dynamics, and move important initiatives forward.

Built For Your Context

No two institutions have the same students, structures, priorities, politics, or opportunities. Our work starts with your goals and builds from there.

We've helped colleges and universities:

Differentiate the institution around career preparation
Strengthen the value proposition for prospective students and families
Build a more coordinated, scalable approach to career preparation
Redesign career center structures and operating models
Respond to changing state policies, funding incentives, and accountability expectations

What Could One Percentage Point Be Worth?

A career strategy gives prospective students a clearer reason to choose your institution and helps enrolled students see why their education is worth sticking with.

Here’s what a one-percentage-point gain in both enrollment yield and first-year retention could mean for two institutions.

SMALLER ENTERING CLASS

$408,000

Potential annual net tuition revenue

20 more students enroll; 10 more return
Based on 2,000 first-year admits and 1,000 first-year students who entered last fall

LARGER ENTERING CLASS

$1.9M

Potential annual net tuition revenue

100 more students enroll; 40 more return
Based on 10,000 first-year admits and 4,000 first-year students who entered last fall

The first-year cohort sizes are illustrative. Both examples use an estimated $13,600 in annual tuition and fee revenue per full-time-equivalent student at U.S. four-year institutions. The rounded estimate was calculated using FY 2024 IPEDS finance data and 2023–24 IPEDS enrollment data.

LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR CAMPUS

"The work is so well done. We didn't want a cookie-cutter report. We wanted something thoughtful, bold, visionary, and unique to Skidmore that wouldn't just slap a band-aid on things, but would help us really move forward in an exciting way. The work was both visionary and tactical and will help move us forward in significant ways."

MARC C. CONNER

President
Skidmore College

Why Bring in an Outside Partner?

Your institution already has smart people who understand your students and your campus. What's harder is stepping outside the day-to-day work long enough to see the system clearly and know which problems to solve first.

Move Faster

Cut through prolonged internal cycles, focus your effort, and move more quickly from discussion to decision.

See the Bigger Picture

Identify gaps, overlaps, structural barriers, and opportunities that can be difficult to see from within one division or department.

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Build the Case for Change

Build the evidence, strategy, and stakeholder support needed to move important ideas forward.

Not sure where to start?

Start by seeing where you stand. The free Career Design Blueprint™ Scorecard gives you a 10-page personalized look at the strengths, gaps, and opportunities across your career ecosystem.

Take the Free Scorecard

25 MINUTES. NO PREPARATION. INSTANT RESULTS.