EDUCATION-TO-CAREER ECOSYSTEM CONSULTING
Your problem isn’t programs.
It’s the ecosystem around them.
BUILT WITH, AND HIRING FROM, PARTNERS WHO MAKE IT WORK:
SOUND FAMILIAR?
You've invested in programs, but the results haven’t followed.
They start motivated and disappear by week six. Without coaching built around real barriers, life wins every time—and no one can tell you exactly where it broke.
Seats you’re not filling.
Training capacity exists, but there is no community infrastructure to find and warm-hand the people it was built for. Empty seats. Or the wrong ones filled.
Students who aren’t finishing.
Figuring this out alone costs three to five years of trial and error—and the cohorts that pass through while you're learning don't get a second chance.
Graduates who haven’t landed.
A credential is only worth the employer relationships you built before you handed it out. Transactional partnerships produce placements that don't stick.
Years you won’t get back.
WE BUILT SOMETHING INTENTIONAL IN DURHAM.
We didn't repurpose a model. We built one, broke it, and then rebuilt it.
The BULLS Life Sciences Academy launched in 2020 as a partnership between Made in Durham, Durham Technical Community College, and the NC Biotechnology Center.
It recruits 18-to-25-year-olds from communities traditional programs never reach, moves them through a 17-week credential, and places them with life sciences employers.
Our first cohorts graduated 55 percent. Our recent cohorts graduate 96. Everything between those two numbers is what we teach.
Recognized by the NC Biotechnology Center as the community engagement model within the Accelerate NC coalition.
THE THREE PILLARS WE TEACH:
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Paid CBO ambassadors, commitment barriers, and warm handoffs that fill every seat with the right person.
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A 12:1 success coaching model, wraparound supports, and a stipend structure that rewards commitment without buying it.
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A two-customer model that serves the graduate and the employer at once—at both the HR and the floor-manager level.
THE LEARNING CURVE, COMPLETED FOR YOU.