excited for you to tell your story because i feel like you have a very unique story as it relates to where you grew up and kind of your trajectory as it relates to where you started in this world and where you are right now helping our future so exactly so you know basically i was fortunate enough in these in career inside of corporate america which i know a lot of people can say all the time but it's a story of growth and i started in the company that invented electronic trading that happened in my first corporate job i was there for nine years and i was able to be the innovative and creat things that just did not exist for driving performance and helping people be at their best regularly on from there i went into our organizations up to fortune ten companies like bill morris and  and finally my last corporate big was out with marchers and you know talk about having a mission that i personally realized stop really connected with my values yeah that's really what i've always been talk and that's really very successful entreprises and working with really smart and talented people with a variety of backgrounds with a variety of educations and global citizens and that's one of the things that really intrigued me over the years how different people even coming from different places come together under these structures these corporate or government or any type of structure to create value and how we understand how we all connect we're all different but how we connect they get to all tell me college for one one yes what i think is fascinating is where you are who you're working with right now and how you're helping them figure out where they want to be further down the of all these different people it's what i look at not generations coming together it's all different people that think and act differently coming together in organizations but what i really saw in him was influenced by it was the future of work and how people were going to work was very very different in now and in the future than it ever had been before yeah and i believe that in order for us and individuals to be as successful as they can be we have to shift a lot of the things that we do to prepare for what how you work where you work what you do and you know the interesting stat for me that drove me to get to college for one one is fifty percent of the jobs that exist today did not exist five years ago right i mean let that sink in for a minute that was absolutely in you know that was a real inspiration for me to think through how can we do things differently what could we be doing for these kids coming into the workforce and what could we be doing for people that are going to be working for the next thirty forty fifty years all right and what does that mean for the job market five years from now and ten years from now and what do they need to be thinking about and we need a workforce and we have people that want to create value and work and do things that really can develop themselves and who they want to be and what their possibilities are right and one of the things that i found early on going into you know i mean i developed some of the earlier career development strategies and programmes way back like not way back but twenty years ago and then throughout my career and built into performance programs and how people could be at their best in organizations so what i found most we had a problem i talked to a whole bunch of people are a bunch of friends i ha nephews going you know they're in high school the thing about go to college and like they were talking about a world that i mean to argue when i went to college yeah every many people have gone on to christian high school or college it's so different and i know everybody says that it's different over time but this is a very very different world within going to college now yeah and when you think about it right so the advisers you know and having kids that are beyond college age at this point you know i can even say write us as parents as the advisors where we're not even a credit because of these changes to really you know gu influence in the right way right in terms of you know who do you want to be what do you want to be what would you want to explore and i think you know i talk to so many different people too in our area of the industry but kind of throughout corporate america and you know many of the time especially when someone has more of a natural it could you do you want to i wanted to do this when you went to college you're you know you're sitting there in your high school class saying yeah that's that's what i want to be going to be in change management that exactly we don't even know we don't know right and so in terms of guiding our children it's interesting yeah and one thing that i found her is that there's not it takes a village for eight yeah so your kids are in school private or public they have teachers in their gardens counselors they have coaches they have advisors all over the place tutors everybody and of course you as parents and their hands and uncles and your friends and everybody else and of course their friends but what i found a big gap was this developing from high school to college whatever they might end up doing it was almost like we spend so much time on the actual subjects but not the level of subjects not the right thing for your child needs not what your kid might want to do not as an opportunity to develop and my business for all these years in corporate has been about the opportunity to develop and give experiences that take you to the next level in how you can perform your skills your competencies sarah right so i got to this place and i had this epiphany and originally i was creating a program for kids coming out of college in to the book world so i saw the gap there and i went out to a bunch of universities to find out whether her development offices were all about and how wonderful they were to support these children these kids great young adults governing into the workforce needless to say and i won't go into detail i was very disappointed successful and i'm not one to look at blame i'm not one to look at zero you know that spend all the time on not fixing this issue or problem or fixing or figuring out what needs to be done to help and prop them right but during the journey i found that the gap was really in high school yeah and so is it the decision what decision to make going to college is it what t focus on what to include what the exclosure like tell me more about that part of the coaching class and i believe that it's all about starting with you as the person and we often don't get that chance and of course the you know the excuse but the reality is that there's you know broader resource yeah you know i mean there are i mean there are stats in this country not all over the place but in california where there's one guidance counselor to seven hundred plus students now of course that goes down in other more affluent areas cetera private schools down tremendously but we have to meet these kids in a place at some career plan but basically it starts with awareness and this is no different than what we do in corporations and it's going to say right building leaders in a way is our yeah they are purposeful  and what they're doing is meaningful in my hall and yeah and well you teach them that starting with themselves and being aware of what their gifts so to speak or puts their interests what's their values these are things that certainly can change and shift over time but for the most part they are similar to where you are right now so if you have more insight and your top to use that information about what you find out about yourself and i use an assessment to do th you really have you've developed you have a tool that you can use throughout the whole life you know that there are the answers they answers are and are within you know right how do you guide direct and control that and i believe that most everybody can with given this information and i now know it being in college for one mind working with hundreds of students supporting them in their place process students and their families i do a lot of work pro bono with other children from you know under served areas and the one there are many common three to kill coming threads but one that is you know goes across the board is that these kids have no idea that a they can learn how to support and in and guide themselves most of the time and they don't even and i mean you know what the future possibilities could be for them sharp so when they look at what their futures are it usually is very very focused on what they know just like adults right  so they don't write their point of reference in their purview is completely differently so yeah so it's so important for us and as part of the process to teach kids how to do research using their own you know what they know about themselves their self awareness through his tool that i use to really give them an idea about sure it's a list there's thousands and hundreds of thousands of things that they could possibly do and during their lifetime i mean the stats are yeah they will have fifteen to twenty careers in their lifetime you know which is a meeting in comparison sackler twenty years ago thirty years ago he had to give them the tools in order that they can be successful this assessment where they get to know themselves and kind of their own compass bearing and then being able to say ok this this option this career opportunity this choice that i've made may not be the right fit for me and to be able to assess that quickly and then redirect to what i want to do and not be afraid of it or not feel like any choice you make is he only choice you could make which i see so you know many kids getting stuck in there they're almost paralyzed because the choices are so many that they feel like ok well what if i made this choice and it doesn't work well let's talk about right i mean what if it doesn't work so it's kind of breathing through that fear and giving them to your point that muscle to be able to make those choices and know that they can make another choice and it's very curious how are you bring up a really good point around making mistakes and this fear of there's only one choice so one of the things that we do a college for one one and it's built right into the or approach of philosophy is that there is not one choice we're teaching you to do is get to a group of grade or grea fit schools for you along the way things are going to change and it's just another way that i use my background and my experience and change management in the ocean development in in business strategy because we go about at the same way you learn and you develop along the way and the one thing that i can tell you that i tell all of my clients i do have counsel with them start off with to make sure the chemistry is there to make sure that it is the right process for them and the family is these are going to change things change constantly from freshman year to sock more to chew near to senior it when you're in college things change what we do is we help to mitigate the risk of you going to a place that is so so far from the right fit for you that you can't make it work when you're in nothing is perfect but you will use these skills about learning how to find the right things for you not just in college and siding on your major in the college careers that you might go after but it's also deciding in the break we're going to say sions for you to be part of  differently than they were today people going in and out of organizations is going to be more the norm than it ever has been before we know now that it's at least thirty or forty percent of the population is working in a freelance or take a look at now how many have like you said before how many careers how many potential companies they'll work for a potential roles they'll hold it's not like there was twenty or thirty years ago where you have people in the same company and  role for thirty or forty years it is not like that is the antithesis of that so you know some of the work and we've talked about this before that that we do it i also helping people who are at a more advanced stage in their career actually when they've been with the company for twenty five years and now they're laid off or what do i do now i've been this person in this brawl and and so how do you help them recreate and it's the same process you're just giving the gift of building these skills early so they're going in with that mentality and not having you know a fifty years old to say ok who am i what do i really bring to the table and just let's pack it up have package of those skills differently so terry you really hit on a couple things and really do focus on besides making sure that we come you know we help our students get a list of each ten schools out of n driven at all by kind who shows up at the college fairs that they hold of the individual high schools and hey i met somebody great from this university i really think this is great for me having almost nothing to do really you know i'm a big advocate for the philosophy it's not about where you go to college it's about what you do with a grade and the way to get to the right place for you academically socially geographically financially and some talent if you know sports or music academics extracurricular and leadership there are so many different facets that go into this process yeah and if you lead with all of those and you use those as to help you make decisions yeah it's a game changer and also often times most of the kids that i'm working with at the highest and kids these are kids that have almost perfect scores on their standardized has in the highest g p a is in the country remember when they get lumped in with the rest of the worlds because that's who they're competing with to get into colleges now it doesn't make them standout because everybody has those stats so to speak but it does make them stand out for their experiences and their attitude and their approach and we take back holistic view college for one one and help our students and their families change their mindset to take a holistic view of themselves so a lot of around what they're doing is developing their own personal brand right and th there are so many things i work with kids during their freshman and sophomore and junior year once in a while take a couple seniors because i just want to help as many people as can buy more people to help and you know i will never ever  take on too much because it's not who i am i my personal mission is the success of my students but that being that i offer a lot of advice to people that they can try to use on their own and it will be more than they ever had before you have abs and that they will get in this process with out you know talking to somebody of myself yeah and why don't we just talked about  basically after a few our conversation i couldn't help but to join him i had always had this this vision that in a few years i would start a foundation to support kids going into their futures and their careers and especially around stamina entrepreneurship and meeting how it really helped to kind of show that there's already a foundation for something like this so can help myself and i jump on board who i am and what i'm about and during that very quickly i have the opportunity to family and a organization within your city promised the school for girls to help and support our young undershirt juniors and seniors in high school to learn to be entrepreneurs and really to develop an entrepreneurial mindset to give them access to college and ensure they were success when they go to college and get to college because for everybody and it's something that i've learnt in this world it's not about getting into any school it's about staying there and graduating and in also circle nomic backgrounds that is is at risk yeah for a variety of reasons and especially in the under served community you know applying and getting in are such a girl with like they're like the smallest part of this process statistic dropping out and never gone back to school again you usually will end up with a variety of loans to pay back to and you haven't graduated but besides that it's all about the opportunity for an education and the opportunity to create experiences because you have better education and i believe that experience create your confidence and competence is one of the biggest factors saw them success for the future i'm certain i can and especially for young girls exactly and teaching girls early on that they are part of a community to support each other that they have great ideas that they have the world's problems solved in their heads we need to get it out of their heads into the value chain and that is a big you know drive for school for girls we actually run the program  we we have a number of girls that apply to the program each year and except every year it's going up a significant number and my vision is that we will have this and other college campuses in the future dot com ok and that number four so it's school number for girls dot com also many see our web site and you can send me any information or questions that you have your we put our application out successful now and in the future and in the words of a couple of more of the people that have gone through the program this has been a game changer yeah and how do people get ahold of you ok you can reach me allison