For Directors, VPs & Executives
From Corporate Dependent
to Corporate Optional.
15-25 years of career capital locked inside someone else's system. This is the one place designed to help you deploy it in a founder business under your own name. Not executive coaching. Not entrepreneurship coaching. The dangerous middle that nobody else owns.
You Already Know
"I make great money but I feel like I'm wasting my life."
"I keep starting things and then stopping."
You could do your job in your sleep. That used to be the goal. Now it's the problem.
Sunday night dread. Not because it's hard. Because you've outgrown it.
"I took a severance and everyone keeps telling me to enjoy the time off. I'm losing my mind."
You've been building for everyone else for 20 years. You have nothing under your own name.
You're sitting on 15-25 years of career capital: patterns, networks, judgment that took
decades to build.
170+ Directors, VPs, and Executives have graduated corporate and started building something of their own.
That's what Corporate Graduation® is for.
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Hear It From Them
LANCE
Former SVP, Financial Services
Zeba
20-Year Technology Leader
Lee
25-Year Entrepreneur, CFO, & Attorney
Brad
Former Financial Executive
What they say
"There are limitations within the corporate construct. And I would prefer to work without limitations."
"I never questioned the default path — until I stepped into a room of people who had. That’s when I stopped asking for permission and started making moves."
"This mentally prepared me for life beyond corporate. And built the business that supports my new life."
"After 30 years, I just resigned from corporate life. This gave me the perspective to treat it as a natural graduation."
"It's is not just a career shift — it's a full life-changing mindset shift that will trickle down into all parts of your life."
"There are limitations within the corporate construct. And I would prefer to work without limitations."
Kristin Sargent
CEO, Tech Startup Advisory Firm
"I never questioned the default path — until I stepped into a room of people who had. That’s when I stopped asking for permission and started making moves."
Chris Thompson
Impact Investor &
CEO of Career Free Agency
"This mentally prepared me for life beyond corporate. And built the business that supports my new life."
Lance Cibik
Speaker, Author, & Coach
"After 30 years, I just resigned from corporate life. This gave me the perspective to treat it as a natural graduation."
Frank Marinello
President, Real Estate Firm
"It's is not just a career shift — it's a full life-changing mindset shift that will trickle down into all parts of your life."
Elizabeth
Partner, Management Consulting Firm
The Founder
Matt Doan
Founder · Corporate Graduation®
I spent 15 years inside BCG and demanding corporate environments before building Corporate Graduation — the only system designed for the dangerous middle between "I can't keep doing this" and having something of your own.
What started as a program became a movement. 170+ Directors, VPs, and Executives across finance, marketing, tech, and consulting have made the move from Corporate Dependent to Corporate Optional.
.170+
Clients
15+
Years in Consulting
$250K+
Invested in the Capability
LET'S GO
The window to deploy your career capital at peak value is narrowing.
The smartest people you know are already building.
Watch the training and see their first move.
