Making the Leap: Moving from deputy to head

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We offer our 16-25 year olds ongoing coaching for as long as they need, as well as holistic support such as counselling, to ensure that they are fully equipped for their next step. Every year, we provide high quality training to thousands of 11-25 year olds from low income families in schools and communities in London. We have been doing this for 24 years. You've gone out of your way, sometimes at great personal sacrifice to make sure your child's K-12 education is Christ-focused. But then he or she decides their college of choice is the furthest thing away from a Christ-centered environment. Our mission is to transform the futures of disadvantaged young people in the UK, by providing training to raise their aspirations and develop their skills, behaviours and attitudes to choose and succeed in a career.

Those who live in states with true school choice won't want to miss this topic! Those who don't have access to school choice will want to hear why its such an important development for your family's success in education. All the young men attend the soft-skills workshop and receive customised training specific to jobs. This would include company values, required aptitude tests, core competencies and any dress codes. Thereafter, the young men receive individual coaching after the soft skills programme. This is where they are supported with any of their individual needs. This coaching is both work-related and pastoral, and would last for as long as required, to give them the best opportunity of securing the life-changing opportunity they are seeking. Our vision: every young person in our country will have the chance to succeed; and every company, organisation and institution will have a part to play in making it happen. Secondary school students – It delivers a range of classroom based programmes and one day activities which run throughout the academic year designed to raise students aspirations and develop their character.

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A unique episode of Making the Leap featuring two fearless men in their respective fields who've stood tall at great personal cost to their careers and families because they stayed true to their Christian faith. Making The Leap, along with our partners, launched the first national awards event dedicated to social mobility in 2017. Now in their seventh year, the UK Social Mobility Awards are about making the advancement of social mobility a key part of how organisations are run in this country. At our annual awards ceremony in October, we recognised and celebrated the efforts of the people and organisations that are leading the way in this endeavour. We're thrilled to welcome a podcasting veteran of the last seven years - Linda Kardamis to the Herzog Podcast Network. Linda's podcast Teach 4 the Heart will be offered alongside Making the Leap each week in our growing family of podcasts. Then, actor Kevin Sorbo shares a bit of his behind-the-scenes perspective as a practicing Christian and homeschool parent in one of the most secular places on Earth - Hollywood.

Today's guest was raised and taught in a K-12 Christian school setting but decided her college destination was the University of Texas-Austin. Hear how she navigated and worked through a decidedly different cultural and spiritual environment to reach graduation and how she continues to be challenged in her first professional experiences in Washington D.C. politics.

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Laurence Meehan is the Corporate Relations Director for Diageo’s Great Britain business, where he has worked since 2017. Previously he held campaigning, public affairs and media roles at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, the Local Government Association, and the Royal College of Nursing. He has also worked in a number of roles across Westminster covering a range of issues including race relations, arms control, homelessness, and gun crime. Its programmes provide a variety of meaningful and popular employee engagement opportunities. These support companies to meet their CSR aims and provide employees with opportunities to utilise their skills to have a real impact on the lives of young people. You no doubt heard about the high school football coach fired for praying on the field. His historic victory before the Supreme Court last year wasn't widely noticed, but it was a huge win for religious liberty. Coach Joe Kennedy joins us to discuss his story and his new book "Average Joe."