Empowering Future Professionals
From Dorm Room to Board Room
We're unlocking student potential and accelerating life success with expert-guided teaching, certifications, and mentorship that bridge the gap between academic learning and real-world success. Help scale our mission at the Commence Foundation to help the next generation sidestep common missteps and prevent "I Wish I Knew That Earlier."
Fast-Track Student Success
Guiding Students to Professional & Life Success
We equip students with the essential workforce skills that are left behind in the academic system. From how to cold network to understanding opportunity cost and time indexing within interview preparation, the power of compounding in financial well-being, and much more, we provide the tools necessary to succeed in the workplace, fast-track your career and safeguard a level of life stability not taught in education.
Networking
How to outreach, what to say, how to follow up and how to be a valued, reciprocal connection.
Business Communication
Learning the new world of corporate writing and unspoken lingo
Career Pathing & Planning
Learning your 40-point individual working style and the industries (and sub-industries), roles and formats that align to that work.
Connecting Students with Opportunity
We are Now a 501c3 charity!
The wait is over! We are excited to announce that Commence is now The Commence Foundation. We felt acting as a nonprofit best aligns with our mission to fix the societal gap of workforce readiness and remove any barriers for institutions to partner with us, or for donors to make the impact they wanted! We are very excited to help students gain insights and get certified on professional skillsets, the ones that add power to their resume, interview and life success.
We will be updating our page soon with more information and how to donate to our cause to safeguard success for all students, from all backgrounds, at any school. Stay tuned!
Giving Students the Skills to Go from the Front Door to the Top Floor
We empower students with the essential skills needed to thrive in the workforce, helping them move from entry-level positions to leadership roles. Our comprehensive training covers everything from communication and networking to business acumen and interview excellence, ensuring that students are prepared to climb the career ladder with confidence.
What We Do
We’ve consolidated our learnings over 45+ years at multiple Fortune 500 companies & over 260 outside expert opinions to offer 17-23 year old's the best ways to grow their careers. This is real-world experience fused with foremost expert thinking. This is the Museum of Modern Work.
Learn from Fortune 500 Expertise
Benefit from over 45 years of collective experience at top companies, giving students real-world insights into the professional landscape.
Knowledge from 260+ Experts
Gain valuable advice and strategies from leading industry professionals who know what works in today’s competitive workforce.
The Museum of Modern Work
Dive into an interactive and dynamic learning experience that combines modern career tools, guidance, and industry trends for the next generation of leaders.
Why We Exist
College is a wonderful experience that opens up people's minds & lives but it's under assault right now and not structured with the curricula, resources or funding to make big changes. As a partner to Higher Ed, we are here to fuse the professional experiences with the industry and research best practices to bring students the #1 thing they want college to do for them: secure a higher lifestyle.
People are drowning.
Drowning in debt, financial instability,
Professional insecurity and social anxiety
Without safer shores in sight.
We are here to be your life raft.
Why Commence?
Because we’re redefining how students prepare for success. At The Commence Foundation, learning goes beyond theory — it’s about real-world application, mentorship, and career readiness. We bridge the gap between education and opportunity so every student can thrive with purpose and confidence.
1: Scary Market Climate
Confidence in college is lower than ever while cost is higher than ever, the job market is tightening, and debt is forcing young adults to live back at home as shown by an all-time high: 52% of those 18-29
72%
Without a job lined up after graduation
3%
College graduates are underemployed
21 Years
To pay off avg student debt
8X
Cost of college rising versus wages
Program Leader
The difference between good and great advice can be life changing. And great is our starting point.
Sure TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter are full of expert advice but how do you know what to search for? What's good and what's not? What works and what doesn't? What's most effective? This is where we come in to collate, curate, combine, consolidate and all other ways to say we collect the best.
Let’s Connect & Create Impact
Have questions, ideas, or want to collaborate with The Commence Foundation? We’d love to hear from you. Reach out to our team and let’s work together to empower students and future professionals across the nation.