Every future leader needs a Champion
like you
Every future leader needs a Champion
like you
Every future leader needs a Champion
like you
Connect with emerging future leaders and share your expertise. By giving them their first real connection to opportunity, you help them build the career exposure and social capital they need to thrive in their future.
Become a Champion
Every future leader needs a Champion
like you
Connect with emerging future leaders and share your expertise. By giving them their first real connection to opportunity, you help them build the career exposure and social capital they need to thrive in their future.
Become a Champion
Be among Champions from leading organizations making an impact.
Be among Champions from leading organizations making an impact.
Why share your journey
as a Champion?
Why share your journey
as a Champion?
Why share your journey
as a Champion?
You have unique professional experiences, resilience, and lessons learned. By stepping up, you bridge the career counseling gap that young leaders lack access to in their own environments.
You have unique professional experiences, resilience, and lessons learned. By stepping up, you bridge the career counseling gap that young leaders lack access to in their own environments.
Your story matters.
You become an approachable role model who shares your authentic journey and reflects the diverse community, ensuring participants see their aspirations represented.
Your expertise is needed.
You fill the institution counseling gap by teaching transferable skills, helping participants connect their unique strengths to real-world opportunities.
Your impact is rewarding.
You choose how to connect through the our programs, creating a safe space for participants to build lasting career exposure.
Your story matters.
You become an approachable role model who shares your authentic journey and reflects the diverse community, ensuring participants see their aspirations represented.
Your expertise is needed.
You fill the institution counseling gap by teaching transferable skills, helping participants connect their unique strengths to real-world opportunities.
Your impact is rewarding.
You choose how to connect through the our programs, creating a safe space for participants to build lasting career exposure.
Your story matters.
You become an approachable role model who shares your authentic journey and reflects the diverse community, ensuring participants see their aspirations represented.
Your expertise is needed.
You fill the institution counseling gap by teaching transferable skills, helping participants connect their unique strengths to real-world opportunities.
Your impact is rewarding.
You choose how to connect through the our programs, creating a safe space for participants to build lasting career exposure.
The gap Champions are helping close
The gap Champions are helping close
The gap Champions are helping close
The gap Champions are helping close
Future leaders from immigrant families often lack the professional networks, cultural capital, and career exposure that most of the workforce takes for granted. The numbers tell the story.
Future leaders from immigrant families often lack the professional networks, cultural capital, and career exposure that most of the workforce takes for granted. The numbers tell the story.
Future leaders from immigrant families often lack the professional networks, cultural capital, and career exposure that most of the workforce takes for granted. The numbers tell the story.
Future leaders from immigrant families often lack the professional networks, cultural capital, and career exposure that most of the workforce takes for granted. The numbers tell the story.
Career opportunities are often shaped by relationships, but many participants do not have equal access to the professional networks that lead to internships, first jobs, and long-term mobility.
Career opportunities are often shaped by relationships, but many participants do not have equal access to the professional networks that lead to internships, first jobs, and long-term mobility.
Career opportunities are often shaped by relationships, but many participants do not have equal access to the professional networks that lead to internships, first jobs, and long-term mobility.
1:650
1:650
1:650
1:650
Counselor-to-student ratio in under-resourced schools
Counselor-to-student ratio in under-resourced schools
Counselor-to-student ratio in under-resourced schools
Counselor-to-student ratio in under-resourced schools
80%
80%
80%
80%
of first jobs come through personal networks
of first jobs come through personal networks
of first jobs come through personal networks
of first jobs come through personal networks
3%
3%
3%
3%
of counselor time reaches career guidance
of counselor time reaches career guidance
of counselor time reaches career guidance
of counselor time reaches career guidance
Where will you make your mark?
Where will you make your mark?
Where will you make your mark?
Whether you have a few hours for a single workshop or want to build a deeper mentoring relationship, pick the path that fits your schedule and expertise.
Whether you have a few hours for a single workshop or want to build a deeper mentoring relationship, pick the path that fits your schedule and expertise.
Whether you have a few hours for a single workshop or want to build a deeper mentoring relationship, pick the path that fits your schedule and expertise.
Foundational Year
Partner directly with participants to provide personalized coaching, build career interests, and guide them through a structured guidance journey over time.
SpeakHire Seminars
Step into dynamic group settings to share your professional insights, answer real time questions, and inspire participants during focused interactive sessions.
Pathways Days
Join forces with other professionals to connect participants with the diverse career journeys and lessons they need to hear.
How It Works
How It Works
Three Steps to Be a Champion
Three Steps to Be a Champion
Three Steps to Be a Champion
Three Steps to Be a Champion
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1
Apply & Choose Your Path
Apply & Choose Your Path
Apply & Choose Your Path
Fill out a quick form detailing your background and select your preferred format, whether that’s the Foundational Year program, SpeakHire seminars, or Pathways Days.
Fill out a quick form detailing your background and select your preferred format, whether that’s the Foundational Year program, SpeakHire seminars, or Pathways Days.
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2
Connect with Our Team
Connect with Our Team
Connect with Our Team
Have a meeting with the SpeakHire team to review your goals, verify fit, and answer any questions you have.
Have a meeting with the SpeakHire team to review your goals, verify fit, and answer any questions you have.
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3
Start Connecting
Start Connecting
Start Connecting
Step into your chosen role, share your professional insights, and begin making a direct impact on participants eager to learn from your journey.
Step into your chosen role, share your professional insights, and begin making a direct impact on participants eager to learn from your journey.
1
Apply & Choose Your Path
Fill out a quick form detailing your background and select your preferred format, whether that’s the Foundational Year program, SpeakHire seminars, or Pathways Days.
2
Connect with Our Team
Have a meeting with the SpeakHire team to review your goals, verify fit, and answer any questions you have.
3
Start Connecting
Step into your chosen role, share your professional insights, and begin making a direct impact on participants eager to learn from your journey.
Have a question?
Have a question?
Have a question?
We’re here to help you every step of the way. Reach out to our team if you need guidance on choosing a program or completing your application.
We’re here to help you every step of the way. Reach out to our team if you need guidance on choosing a program or completing your application.
Get in touch with our team at
Get in touch with our team at
champions@speakhire.org
champions@speakhire.org
In their own words, from Champions who know what it means to need a door opened.
In their own words, from Champions who know what it means to need a door opened.
In their own words, from Champions who know what it means to need a door opened.
In their own words, from Champions who know what it means to need a door opened.
“What I love about SpeakHire is seeing future leaders gain confidence and develop skills that will serve throughout entire careers. Being a Champion isn’t just about showing up — it’s about showing a young person what’s possible.”
Frank Guia
Foundational Year & Seminars Champion
“Young people in a new environment need someone who has gone through the same changes… I love that SpeakHire recognizes that unique need and I’m hoping that it helps make a strange place into just another new place.”
Neeti Nayak
Foundational Year Champion
“It is an amazing feeling to be told by an intern that they enjoyed our sessions, learned a lot, and positively impacted their lives. This is exactly why I wanted to become a Champion.”
Christina Broomes
Foundational Year Champion
“I honestly didn’t know what career I wanted to settle in until I was in college… So my participation at SpeakHire is more so like being that person that I really needed growing up.”
Lena Dandy
Foundational Year & Seminars Champion
“SpeakHire provided a great opportunity to help me share my experience as a first generation immigrant with interns who are navigating the end of their high school with the same background.”
Anya Smith
Foundational Year & Seminars Champion
“I remember being an immigrant student and wanted to be a source of inspiration, guidance, and support to immigrant high schoolers.”
Sunkyung Park
Foundational Year Champion
“The work that you are doing is incredible, but the way in which you engage outside supporters is even more impressive.”
Ed Bianchi
Seminars Champion
700+
700+
Active Champions
Active Champions
10
10
Years of Impact
Years of Impact
50+
50+
Partner Schools
Partner Schools
95%
95%
Champions Return
Champions Return
Champions from companies
you know and trust
Champions from companies
you know and trust
Champions from companies
you know and trust
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Every future leader’s story begins with a Champion who showed up.
Every future leader’s story begins with a Champion who showed up.
Every future leader’s story begins with a Champion who showed up.
You have the experience. Future leaders from immigrant families have the ambition.
SpeakHire is the connection that brings both together.
You have the experience. Future leaders from immigrant families have the ambition.
SpeakHire is the connection that brings both together.
You have the experience. Future leaders from immigrant families have the ambition.
SpeakHire is the connection that brings both together.
Become a Champion
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