project compass
Discover Your Strengths, Find Your Direction, Build Your Future
Project Compass helps young adults and individuals facing career disruption understand their natural strengths, build confidence, and discover a clearer path toward education, training, and meaningful work.
Take the first step toward understanding your strengths, your possibilities, and what could come next.
Discovery
Mentorship
Opportunities
The Need is Real
62%
of Students say they need help deciding their career plans
Students select a major that is a good fit with their interests
36%
More likely to say they know which direction they want to follow in life when frequently applying strengths
2.7x
62%
of students say they need help deciding their educational and career plans.
2.7x
more likely to say they know which direction they want to follow in life.
2.2x
of students selected a planned major that was a good fit with their measured interests.
The Mission
Helping People Find Their Direction Before They Choose Their Future
Too many young adults are asked to make life-changing decisions before they have the opportunity to understand their own strengths. Project Compass starts with self-discovery, then helps turn that awareness into confidence, direction, and meaningful next steps.
Discover
01
Understand Strengths →
Through CliftonStrengths and guided coaching, participants discover the natural talents they already possess and learn to see those strengths as assets rather than limitations.
Build
02
Confidence & Clarity →
Self-awareness creates a foundation for confidence. Participants learn how to articulate what they bring to the world and begin seeing possibilities that fit who they are.
Explore
03
Find Direction →
With greater clarity about themselves, participants can explore careers, education, training, and opportunities with a stronger understanding of where they could thrive.
THE COST OF CHOOSING WITHOUT CLARITY
Choosing a Future Before You Know Yourself Can Be Costly.
The pressure to pick a major, career, or training program can come long before a young person has had the chance to understand their own strengths.
College. Career. Certifications. Training.
These decisions can require years of time, thousands of dollars, and a tremendous amount of commitment.
But what happens when you choose a direction because you felt pressured to have an answer rather than because you understood what you're naturally good at?
Project Compass believes the first step shouldn't be choosing a career. It should be discovering yourself.
When young adults understand their strengths, build confidence around what they bring to the table, and explore possibilities through that lens, they can make more informed decisions about what comes next.
Difference between highest paying and lowest paying College Majors
$3.4 Million
Difference in median early career earnings between bachelor degree majors
$40,000
To be engaged at work when people have the opportunity to use their strengths
6x
YOUR STRENGTHS
The goal isn't to chase the highest-paying career. It's to discover where your natural talents, interests, opportunities, and earning potential can intersect.
THE PROJECT COMPASS PROCESS
A Clearer Path Starts With Understanding Yourself.
Three simple steps to help you discover your strengths, build confidence, and explore a future that fits who you are.
01
Milestone 1
DISCOVER YOUR STRENGTHS
Complete the CliftonStrengths assessment to identify the natural talents and patterns that make you uniquely you.
02
Milestone 2
UNDERSTAND YOUR STRENGTHS
Work one-on-one with a certified Gallup Strengths Coach to understand your results, recognize your talents in action, and turn self-awareness into confidence.
03
Milestone 3
EXPLORE YOUR DIRECTION
Use what you've discovered about yourself to explore careers, education, training, and opportunities where your strengths and interests can create meaningful possibilities.
Your Future Starts With Understanding Yourself
CliftonStrengths · Certified Coaching · Career Exploration
Why Project Compass
A Different Starting Point for Career Direction.
Too often, young people are asked to choose a major, career, or training path before they have had the opportunity to understand their own strengths.
Project Compass starts with the person not the job title.
We help participants discover their natural strengths through CliftonStrengths, understand what those strengths mean through one-on-one coaching, and use that self-awareness to explore meaningful possibilities for their future.
We're not here to tell someone what they should become.
We're here to give them the language, confidence, guidance, and resources to make that decision for themselves.
Because when you understand what you're naturally good at, you can begin asking better questions about where those strengths could take you.
Project compass provides
Mentorship
Education
Oportunities
The CHoice
Two Paths. One Decision.
You can choose your next step with clarity or spend time and money trying to figure it out along the way.
Option A
Choose a major because you feel pressured to decide.
Start a career because it seems like the safest option.
Invest in education or training without knowing whether it fits your strengths.
Then wonder if there's a better path.
VS
Option b
Understand your natural strengths.
Build confidence in what you bring to the table.
Explore careers, education, and opportunities that align with who you are.
Then move forward with a clearer sense of direction.
Start with self-discovery. Build from there.