Our Mission is to inspire, enable and accelerate the fulfillment of life goals to accomplish more than previously thought possible
Recent Program Highlights
Our volunteers include employees from companies like AT&T and PwC. Providing students opportunities to start networking in high school with potential future employers is a win-win and fun for students and volunteers!
Shown below are students from North Dallas High School and our keynote speaker, Pascal Desroches, AT&T CFO, at our fundraising event. Also shown are Chris Sambar, Lynette Aguilar, David Williams, Kevin McDorman, and Rachel Brown speaking to students in a leadership series. Special thanks to Mindy and Rob Walters’ non-profit, A Room 2 Grow for redoing the room where our leadership series is being conducted and PwC for sponsoring the series (including lunches)!
Other Recent Programs
Highlands Ptech (San Antonio ISD)
Co-Founders Fred Brown and Lanie Wingert shown with Michelle Garcia from Highlands P-tech, Dr. Krystal Peralez of SA Worx (sponsors of the program) and some of the 50 students in our program. Students earned a total of 116 digital badges! Volunteers Joe Dunn and Nora Johnson are shown assisting students creating LinkedIn profiles to display their new badges.
CAST Schools
We got CAST students IGNITED about Money Mindset in just 30 minutes at Youth Rally at San Antonio’s DoSeum!
Midway High
25 High School students in the Ready, Set, Teach program taught our Resilience module to 125 of their high school teachers in small groups!
We taught 350 Juniors Time Mgmt and Focus and Stress Mgmt at Panther Prep (Junior Day). Thanks to PwC for sponsoring this program!
We are GRATEFUL to have had an exciting year at Ignite MindShift in spite of all the uncertainties in 2020.
Prior to this year we taught exclusively classroom based programs but we responded quickly to the need for quality remote learning this year due to COVID-19 thanks to support from our great partnerships.
Watch this short video to see some of the students from our partnered school at North Dallas High School. They were our special guests at our Fall Fundraising event.
We are planning for expansion in 2021 and can use your help to reach even more at-risk teens in the upcoming year and beyond. We and the students in our programs appreciate it!
Congratulations to the 28 students from our North Dallas High Ignite MindShift Fall 2019 class (part of class pictured here).
Students learned about our 12 core curriculum topics across the semester and voted on a class motto for t-shirts, “Obstacles Make Me STRONGER”; which they received at class graduation along with completion certificates.
They were then treated to a Field Trip hosted at AT&T
75% of students completing our course are more confident that they will pursue further education after high school
LaToya Henry (AT&T Corporate Communications) enjoyed interviewing Kevin McDorman (AT&T Vice President of Finance Operations) about his passion for giving back to his community through his involvement as Ignite MindShift’s Advisory Board member.
North Dallas High School students Tour AT&T
We recently hosted students from North Dallas High School at a AT&T Headquarters. The students enjoyed listening to guest speakers Joni Arison, Kelem Butts, Jennifer Rylander and Miriam Ynocencio. They practiced networking and first impression skills they learned this semester with AT&T employees over lunch.
Drexell Owusu, SVP from the Dallas Regional Chamber spoke to them as well. Students appreciated the opportunity to meet with professionals at these top companies to get an up close and personal look at what corporate America has to offer.
Gift bags with items donated from AT&T, Mary Kay and office tour host, PwC; was a perfect way to end the day. This collaboration between the local businesses, Ignite MindShift and North Dallas High showed students that the sky is the limit for their future!
Impact Stories
Certification
Students who are certified in Ignite MindShift course have successfully completed required coursework.
OUR MISSION
About Ignite MindShift Impact
Our Mission is to inspire, enable and accelerate the fulfillment of life goals to accomplish more than previously thought possible.
We realize our mission and vision by delivering distinctive classroom and online learning experiences, based upon the latest research and timeless wisdom on each subject area coupled with applicable life & work examples.
We bring the “best of the best” training to provide core understanding of key “life skills” that enable participants to have the confidence in their personal and interpersonal leadership to achieve their goals and enabling others to do the same.
