Business Foundations
Build experience across the core functions of a business.

Build practical business skills, create proof of what you can do, and prepare to stand out in the job market with one-on-one mentorship and support from the Praxis team.
The Accelerate: Career Launch Track is for ambitious young adults who have completed Incubate, know they want to work in business, and are ready to build practical skills, create proof of their ability, and prepare for a strong first role. Most people start with little or no professional work experience.
Four moves that turn six months of work into a job offer.
Build practical skills through hands-on challenges, simulations, and projects modeled on the kind of work businesses rely on every day.
Build portfolio-worthy work that demonstrates your skills and gives employers something concrete to evaluate beyond credentials alone.
Build a strong business foundation, then go deeper in the skills most relevant to the kind of work you want to pursue.
Learn how to find the right opportunities, build applications that get noticed, connect with the right people, interview well, and run an effective job search with coaching, mentorship, and warm introductions to employers in the Praxis partner network.
Twenty-four weeks, three phases.
Build experience across the core functions of a business.
Learn how to stand out in the hiring process.
Run your job search with support from the Praxis team while continuing to build deeper skills through advanced modules. Areas of focus may include:

Praxis gives you enough structure to keep moving while keeping the work in your hands. Learn independently, join live cohort calls, get one-on-one guidance from experienced mentors, and build alongside driven peers.
Put what you learn into practice through challenges, projects, and practical business work.
Work through questions, decisions, and challenges with someone who can offer perspective and feedback.
Learn with people who take their growth seriously and bring their own ideas, experiences, and perspectives.
Take responsibility for your progress, your decisions, and what you make of the experience.
Complete the Accelerate: Career Launch Track and meet the program's eligibility requirements, and Praxis guarantees you a job offer within 12 months of your Accelerate start date, with the potential to earn at least $45,000 in your first year.
Eligibility requirements and guarantee terms apply. Read the terms
The first half of Accelerate gave me proof of progress. ... I've built skills that most people don't develop until much later: communication, initiative, and the ability to create opportunities instead of waiting for them.
I have had my whole perspective of the career world turned upside down. ... I feel more than ever empowered to go out and forge a path for myself. Most importantly, I have the agency to pitch myself directly to someone, rather than having my name drawn by chance out of a hat of candidates.
It was a great learning environment all through the program. To have someone leading me through the program, peers to look to for inspiration, and a great mentor; it creates an environment for growth.
Yes. Every Praxis participant begins with Incubate. Finishing it earns a certificate of completion, which is what makes you eligible to apply for an Accelerate track.
Accelerate participation is by application, not open enrollment. Once you have your Incubate certificate, you apply, and the decision comes down to how you showed up in Incubate: attending the weekly calls, submitting your deliverables, communicating well, and handling yourself professionally. Your program lead and mentor both weigh in. The program fee is $6,650, and the full terms are here.
Incubate is a six-week foundation focused on habits, skills, relationships, and direction. Accelerate's Career Launch Track is a six-month program that builds on that foundation with practical business skills, portfolio-worthy work, and a job offer guarantee.
Career Launch Track is built for people who want to build a career inside a business, in areas like marketing, sales, operations, or customer success. Entrepreneur Track is built for people who want to build and launch a business of their own. Compare the two by also reading about the Entrepreneur Track.
You'll first tell us your preference on the Accelerate application in Week 5 of Incubate. If you're not sure yet, choose "I don't know yet" and your program lead will reach out to help you think it through.
You'll make your choice when you enroll in Accelerate, via a checkbox on the payment form. We ask before Accelerate starts so we can match you with a mentor who fits your track and will stay with you the whole way. This also gives you the chance to go through the program with an eye for your end goal, whether that's landing a job or launching a business.
Both tracks start with the same nine weeks of business foundations. The specific tracks begin in Week 10, so everything you do in the first nine weeks applies to either track.
Please choose carefully, since your mentor and cohort are set up around your track. Both tracks share the first nine weeks of business foundations, so if you're having second thoughts, talk to your program lead as early as you can.
Once your track begins in Week 10, you can't switch. Joining a new track partway through would put you behind your new cohort and disrupt your mentor relationship.
If your track starts to feel challenging, that's normal. Both tracks are designed to stretch you. Talk to your program lead and your mentor. They're there to provide you with support.
No. When the tracks begin, each track has its own curriculum content and weekly workshops, and only participants in that track can see them. You'll be fully supported in the track you choose: curriculum, mentorship, cohort calls, and feedback.
You can't enroll in both tracks at the same time. Each track's workload is about the same as a part-time job, and the two cohorts meet at the same time for weekly calls. If you want to do the other track in the future, see the next question.
You can, for an additional fee. You'd join the other track at Week 10 alongside a future cohort, pending a brief review process to confirm re-acceptance into the program. You won't repeat the weeks of business foundations.
If you come back for the Career Launch Track, the job offer guarantee and terms apply to you, just as they do for anyone who starts that track.
Specific eligibility requirements and guarantee terms are covered in the application process and in the Accelerate program terms.
Build practical skills, prove what you can do, and get the support you need to turn your ability into opportunity.
6 months · Online · 10 to 15 hrs/week · $6,650 · Prerequisite: Incubate
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