Bridging Ambitions

Connecting You to Your Future

In the first few years after graduation, you may feel disconnected from the camaraderie and support you had while in college, while not yet certain of how you fit into the world.

The Bridging Ambitions Group Mentorship is designed to build a bridge to confidently cross over as it addresses the challenges faced by recent graduates.

The Bridging Ambitions™️ Group Mentorship curriculum is customized to meet the needs identified during interviews with recent graduates regarding the following areas

transition to the workforce

Adjusting to the professional environment, building a professional network, and understanding workplace expectations are common challenges.

career uncertainty

Difficulty in aligning your skills and interests with available job opportunities, leading to impostor syndrome and career indecision.

mental wellness challenges

The transition from college to the workforce, financial pressures, and the competitive job market as those things contribute to mental health concerns including stress, anxiety, and depression.

The Bridging Ambitions™️ Group Mentorship provides invaluable mental wellness training and life navigation skills while creating a cohesive network to rely on in the future

objectives:

  • Build a foundation for mental wellness by developing mindset skills for self-esteem, confidence, resilience, happiness, and self-leadership so graduates can be prepared to thrive in life.

  • Proactively develop resilience and coping skills to navigate life’s disappointments, manage change, move past mistakes, minimize worries, overcome fear, and move through life empowered.

  • Develop empowering mindset skills through training, discussion, and activities so that graduates learn and are able to apply essential life navigation skills to your life.

  • Love and honor yourself, respect yourself and others, make good decisions and stand up to peer pressure, feel confident to try new things, and set and achieve goals to create a life you love.

  • Establish a robust network within the mentorship cohort, fostering connections to refine your skills, engage in meaningful practice, and forge enduring, lifelong relationships.

  • Lower the resistance you may have about obtaining support for mental health challenges such as self- esteem, confidence, shyness, worries, fear, change, and social issues.

the details

Hello, World!

The Bridging Ambitions™️ Group Mentorship meets twice monthly for a total of twelve, 60- minute group mentoring sessions. All sessions will be conducted LIVE via Zoom.

During each meeting, graduates will be instructed in areas supporting the aforementioned mentorship objectives with time for discussion and opportunities to practice what they’re learning.

Scroll down to apply by June 14, 2024.

Mentees will have the opportunity to work on 1-on-1 with the instructor in a supplemental private coaching engagement which is a service separate from and outside of the provisions of the Bridging Ambitions™️ Group Mentorship.

  • All meetings ate 1 hour and take place on Thursdays at 1:00 pm ET (12 pm CT / 11 am MT / 10 am PT) LIVE via ZOOM

    Meeting Dates:

    June 27, 2024

    July 11, 2024

    July 25, 2024

    August 8, 2024

    August 22, 204

    September12, 2024

    September 26, 2024

    October 10, 2024

    October 24, 2024

    November 7, 2024

    November 21, 2024

    December 5, 2024

meet your instructor

  • Linda Bucher is an authentic, heart-centered master-certified life coach, mindset mentor, transformational speaker, show host, author, MBA, and Ripple Maker.

    Linda’s gifts lie in helping high-potential individuals and leaders to know their worth and get clear on their path so they can live a meaningful life that they love. Her expertise lies in synthesizing her experience, skills, and talents to coach, lead, mentor, and teach.

    Incorporating her multiple coaching certifications and diverse life experiences with over 25 years of corporate experience and 14 years as an entrepreneur, Linda sits in a unique place to guide smart, driven, successful people who are ready and eager to break through their barriers, experience success on their own terms, and make a difference.

  • Linda believes that each of us is here to use our unique gifts, skills, and talents to make a difference in the world. She's on a mission to inspire and impact millions of people to know their worth and share their gifts, deliberately creating big, beautiful ripples that leave a legacy of positive shifts in their wake.

  • Linda frequently contributes her experience and expertise to large companies, universities, entrepreneurs, and not-for-profit organizations. She's always looking for people to connect with, opportunities to serve, and partnerships to engage in.

    Linda is a native of Western NY, and the proud mother of two U.S. Marines, and a daughter, currently in a doctoral program, who is making a splash of her own in the field of Psychology. In her free time, you'll find Linda at her piano, in nature, or exploring the world with her Renaissance Man.

    Read Linda’s story here.

    Listen to Linda’s podcast, Conversations Worth Your While here and on all podcast platforms

BRAND COLLABORATIONS

how to apply

This program is being sponsored by SUNY Buffalo Office of Alumni Engagement and is free to UB Alumni.

***Space is limited. Once the UB-sponsored seats fill, the sponsored cohort will close.

The deadline to apply is Friday, June 14, 2024.

You will be notified whether you have a UB-sponsored seat by Tuesday, June 18, 2024.

your application must be received by Friday, June 14, 2024