Prioritizing value and vision for future-ready leaders of our nation — through high-quality executive education
Effectively Addressing Your Needs
Skills-based hires across industries equipped to lead the workforce doubtless, determined, and dynamically — training Early Valuable Professionals (EVPs) to earn promotions within, filling open roles, and innovating client value upon onboarding.
Talent Sustainability
EVPs are found within the 50% of the US workforce without a 4-year degree, it takes an EVP to properly understand the frustrations within corporate culture that lead to higher LOA requests, attrition rates, and lack of engagement.
EVPs will hoist a combination of mental fortitude, key skills, and change management awareness meant to carry their careers forward.
Mental Fortitude
Done-for-you training takes the stress out of wondering if your newest skills-based hire will measure up to company standards. As a Route to Rise partner, your EVP workforce receives industry-relevant, in-demand skills training and more:
Socio-Emotional - Resilience | Agility | Flexibility
Analytical Thinking
Intentional Priority Setting
Navigating Team Dynamics
Executive Education for EVPs
Anchored in building the candidate’s adaptability on the job, your EVP will be ready to address incoming and unforeseen changes on solid footing.
Fortified and Future-Ready, takes EVPs through how to mentally sustain their place in the marketplace. Addressing thought loops and how to pair intentional goals to their present thoughts while forging a path with fortitude.
My lived experience is why I serve early talent well.
Kara Gooch understands the unique challenges faced by early talent and skills-based hires. With over 200+ workshops and leadership sessions delivered, her approach directly addresses three critical industry concerns:
Developing Core Skills
Drawing from her transformation from no tech experience to leading a tech apprenticeship program, Kara emphasizes skills like problem-solving, communication, and adaptability—essentials for a future-ready workforce.
Inclusive Learning Models
Kara has designed adaptable learning objectives that cater to diverse learning styles, ensuring each apprentice and skills-based hire is supported and able to thrive, regardless of background.
Providing Real-World Insights
As a former apprentice who rose to leadership, Kara’s guidance is grounded in real-world experience. She equips early talent with practical skills and strategies for navigating the corporate landscape, resulting in quicker transitions and higher engagement.
As seen on…
Episode 87: Kara Gooch, Goodwill Rising Together, Overcoming Stigma, Time Poverty
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Empowering Women to Power our Future: The Effects and Successes of Apprenticeship
Route to Rise Can Help Your Business
Route to Rise is on a mission to build and advocate for safe spaces of learning for all Early Valuable Professionals (EVPs) entering the workforce from alternative routes. Though entry to corporate increases, so does the chasm between executive education and proper mentorship. Leaders can’t train at the pace EVPs require attention. EVPs lack clear pathways from leaders available to train, adjust, and relate to their learning styles or previous work experiences.
Route to Rise is equipped to help EVPs enter the workforce affirmed to deliver with excellence because their work ethic qualifies them to succeed. Senior leaders can confidently adapt to varied learning styles when EVPs have the language, tools, and confidence to advocate for what they need. Corporations will remain aligned to their goals of closing the equity gaps revolving around EVPs. But, it begins with a commitment to learning through character, collaboration, and trust assessments.
Join Route to Rise as we a build future-ready workforce together.
More About Kara Gooch
The best servant of the community is a member of the community. As an advocate for skills-based hiring and a graduate of such initiatives, I bring experience in leading engagement and up-skilling strategies. I’ve had the opportunity to be an eager consumer and now a producer of messaging and learning objectives for early valuable professionals (EVPs). With these insights, I’ve successfully hosted over 200 workshops focused on developing lifelong learners this year.
Passionate about partnering with strategists, corporations, and universities, I am committed to bridging education gaps and fostering culture translation and mental fortitude. My approach ensures that skills-based hires are equipped for sustained success and future-proof career longevity.
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Contact our team for a consultation. Together we can bring your early valuable professional workforce to a future-ready state leading with strength in mind, change principles at hand and the executive education backing to pull your company’s initiatives forward.