Security · Coaching and mentoring
Students get mentored. Professionals get coached.
Two different relationships, on purpose. Mentoring is long-term and about who you are becoming. Coaching is short-term and about the next move: the interview, the role, the raise.
Mentoring · for students
Pick a mentor. Keep them for a year.
- For high school and college students, and ACCESS Granted trainees
- You choose your mentor from practitioners across cybersecurity domains
- Monthly check-ins, a GitHub portfolio you build together, homework help and test prep when you need it
- Mentors are vetted, trusted members of the security community
- Free for students in our programs; Sponsored seats available for those who qualify
Coaching · for professionals
A coach for the next move.
- For career changers, early-career technologists, and practitioners aiming higher
- 30-minute first session, $60: where you are, where you want to be, which coach fits
- 1-hour sessions, $100: interview prep, a live project, a technical skills review, a career pivot
- Executive and dissertation coaching by arrangement
- Blocks of hours and student rates on request
Our method, proven in the Cybersecurity Career Launchpad (May 2025)
Four sessions, one plan you write yourself
Led by a CISSP- and CISM-certified coach with 25 years in IT and cybersecurity and a first-generation college graduate's view of the climb. Every session ends with homework that becomes a page of your own career development plan.
The homework that does the work
After Session 1 you name three non-technical strengths, two honest limitations, three NICE work roles that interest you, four skills you have, four you need, and three actions to close the gap. You submit it on a form before the next session and defend it out loud. The plan is yours by the time you finish.
How a cohort runs
Live session, recording highlights within days, study hall notes, a supplemental resources list (CyberSeek, NICE, work roles mapped to certifications), a 5-minute anonymous survey after each session that changes the next one, and a question form open all week. Agile, not a lecture series.
How this page earns
Three doors, each a funnel in FG Funnels. Free first, paid second, program third. Every submission is tagged so follow-up is automatic.
Mentoring is not a funnel: students apply, mentors volunteer, both through Welcome. Two forms, tags mentee-apply and mentor-volunteer.
Quote to come, with written consent.
Start with the free quiz, or book the first session.
How you can help
Be the mentor or fund the seat.
Students get mentored at no cost because donors and mentors cover it.