November 8, 2022 | Liz McCardle

Lifestyle First: Understanding the Leader lifestyle

The world is fast-changing, so let’s shift away from a traditional mindset of life + work.

Find Your Grind brings a lifestyle-first approach to social and emotional learning and career readiness

Students need more than a list of outdated job titles that match a personality type. Instead, they need a framework that changes the way they see themselves in the changing landscape of work.

Find Your grind

Our curriculum, rooted in Social Emotional Learning and reflective practice, helps learners develop greater awareness, gain exposure to careers and industries, and begin the process of designing their ideal lifestyle.

The Find Your Grind curriculum focuses on shifting the traditional mindset.

We’ve been taught to think of the job we want, acquire those strengths, then somehow fit in our lifestyle around that job.

Instead of answering the question, “what do you want to do when you grow up?” Let’s start answering the question “who do you want to be?”

This mindset shift all starts with Flipping the Funnel and getting to know yourself—what lifestyle you want to live, what strengths you have, and what job matches both.

The Leader Lifestyle

Learn how Leaders leverage their strengths to make the world a better place.

Leaders have a natural ability to influence others and the charisma necessary to attract contributors. They are passionate about creating positive impactdeveloping people, and building community, rather than personal benefit.

Leaders are brave, mentally tough, and have a strong sense of will. They are smart and independent, yet enjoy collaborating with others and work best with a team at their back. These traits combined with a strong work ethic enables Leaders to be unstoppable!

Students view high-quality, well-produced learning videos that inspire them to think differently when it comes to how they approach their future

Leader Mentors & Careers in Find Your Grind

Find Your Grind’s network of mentors share real-life stories and personal experiences to humanize career exploration for students. We also have a diverse and growing library of careers for students to explore and find ones that fit with their skills and lifestyles.

Mentors and careers in the Leader lifestyle include:
Ali Mullin – Celebrity Fashion Stylist
Jim Tselikis – Restaurant Owner
Grant Rousseau – Esports Team Manager

Lifestyle Insights

Every learner who experiences Find Your Grind takes our proprietary Lifestyle Assessment multiple times throughout the curriculum. We’ve collected thousands of responses from learners, and Leaders represent 1.45% of learners that use Find Your Grind.

Leaders are a proportion of all Find Your Grind lifestyle assessment responses

All learners using Find Your Grind receive a personalized learning experience unique to them, and Leaders will experience careers and mentors that are more highly associated with this lifestyle, resulting in greater learning engagement, and improved learning outcomes across the four capabilities that the Find Your Grind Future Ready Framework delivers on – Self Awareness, Social Awareness, Career Awareness, and Action Awareness.

To read about the learning science and research that supports our curriculum and learning outcomes, please check out our research section here.


To learn more about how Find Your Grind lifestyles improve career readiness and career exploration, contact us.

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