“Through my experience as a Peake Pilot Program Fellow, I gained confidence in my leadership and strategic skills for face-to-face sessions with small and local business teams. The Fellowship’s systems-based training and mutual mentoring positioned me to become the Program Manager of an international value chain organization for coffee growers as soon as I finished the Fellowship.”

“During Lampin’s years as an applied learning partner in the Fellows Service, we’ve been able to get new customers and serve our current customers in more cybersecure, sustainable, and profitable relationships. That began with the Fellows helping us to analyze which customers and suppliers are most strategic with the help of the Peake Fellowship’s AI & big data-based training platform.”

“The Peake Fellowship’s Internet-enabled, mutual mentoring approach will strengthen America’s national defense along with the health and prosperity of each local community that participates. I’ve experienced how the Peake Fellowship accelerates that higher ed progress for regional, national, and Minority Serving Institutions.”

“The Peake Fellowship is so exciting because it brings together technology, the community, new skills, diversity in tech, and closing that digital divide that we all know still exists in a big way.”

“When I was Vice Chief of Naval Education, we recognized that our students were becoming increasingly adept online. That shift empowers educators to be ‘the guides alongside’ instead of ‘the sages on the stage’. We bring that understanding to the Peake Fellowship’s intergenerational applied learning & teaching so small and local businesses can cybersecurely reach more customers. This approach will drive a major change in the way that small & local businesses grow.”