ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

To my wife, Jaclyn, for your unwavering support in my career journey. I love you. From third grade to infinity :)

Thank you to my son and daughter. I hope you utilize this book when you’re in college. I love you. :)

Thank you to my mom and dad for being such great role models. Kelly and I won the parent lottery. I love you. Dad— thank you for our Wednesday meetings.

Kelly, thank you for helping me kick-start the journey of social entrepreneurship from the very beginning. I love you.

To all my aunts, uncles, cousins, family-in-law, and family friends who have supported me and offered encouragement throughout my life—thank you and I love you.

To BG, Siz, Jonny, Lena, Tisa, Costa, Albanese, Phinney, Lutz, Treezy, Dustin, Erik, and Bussa Buss—thank you for your lifelong friendship. Iron sharpens iron. Love you guys.

To Coach Al Ferrer and Stephen Torres. I wouldn’t have earned the competitive internships in college without your advice and teachings. And this book wouldn’t exist. Thank you for your guidance and for believing in me before I believed in myself.

Thank you to Bill Burnett for writing Designing Your Life and for encouraging me to write Launch Your Career. Your support was the final push I needed to invest time into this endeavor.

Thank you to The Career Leadership Collective. Two of the best compliments I’ve received were: 1) Jeremy and Vanessa saying the Career Launch Method sits at the center of the National Alumni Career Mobility survey results about the four highest impact indicators of significant career mobility for students (designing a career plan, receiving helpful career advice, interacting with employers, and seeking career-relevant internships), and 2) being asked to be your partner to scale equitable student success.

Thank you to Steve Piersanti and the BK team. I’m so glad to be an author-member of your social enterprise. It’s been a fun process to bring this book to the world. Thank you to those who reviewed and edited the manuscript: Joe Testani, La’Tonya Rease Miles, Vince Menon, Yuli Mendoza, Thomas Vickers, Guisselle Nuñez, Adam Peck, Erin Kimura-Walsh, Stephen Torres, Jenny Williams, Chloe Lizotte, Bruce Goodman, and Chloe Park. Your contributions have made a more cohesive and impactful book. Thank you for your time and feedback.

Thank you to my Career Launch family: Marieli Rubio, Lydia Ku, Alex Pennington, Gavin Gosgrave, Kelly O’Keefe, Ethan Nguyen, Naila Masom, Stephan Vernaelde, Shirley Chan, Liyah Lopez, Joce Pulido, Rapha Guzman, Tim Nile, Adan Gonzalez, Rodrigo Mendez, Celeste Muñoz, Grant Mendoza, Julio Aragon Jr., Ross Urbina, Amita Kumar, JP Rindfleisch, Erin Fox, Yevin Lee, Ashley Landers, Masooda Habib, Christian Ruiz, Jess Recchi, Ryan Klaus, Sarina Jwo, Andrew Papenfus, Camron Tarassoly, Ryan Ohanesian, and Se Kim.

Thank you to Raine Hambly, Gustavo Chamorro, North Orange Continuing Education, and the North Orange County Community College District for being early partners of Career Launch and users of the microlearning programming, the Launch Your Career Workbook, and the Certified Career Launch coaching program.

Thank you to those who have played a key role in my career journey: Harry Selkow, Tim Sbranti, Mike Del Ponte, Randy Zechman, Ian Fitzpatrick, Dan Carpenter, Zach Walter, Dominic Dutra, George Anders, Dan Casetta, and David Peralta.

To Coach Kris Lillimagi and Coach Tubbs. You were the first people, besides my family, to believe in me as an undersized offensive lineman. Thank you for the boost of confidence.

To Lisa Wood, Grant Christensen, and David Alioto. Thank you for taking a chance on me as an intern and as a full-time employee. To Brian DiTucci and Adam Clar, thank you for being amazing coworkers and friends. It was a privilege to start the same job on the same day. Rest in peace, Adam.

To Kirk Berridge. Thank you for taking me under your wing and teaching me about the business of sports.

To all the friends I made in business school, especially Dustin Warford, Josh Seidenfeld, Jay Allardyce, Shirley Chan, Seth Tator, Denese Puccinelli, Russ Hearl, Jose Salas-Vernis, and Eileen Long—thank you for being part of my journey.

To my Shamrock family, especially Brian Driscoll, Jason Badger, Zarek Woodfork, Kyle Fraley, Austin Day, Lauren Groth, Phil Benson, John Combs, Dylan Long, and Ryan Bialaszewski— thank you for an amazing seven years.

To my Santa Clara University family. Thank you to Jo-Anne Shibles, Bill Mains, and Brenda Versteeg for approving my appointment as an adjunct faculty in 2010. Thank you to Kirthi Kalyanam and Bill Sundstrom for approving my renewable-term faculty position in 2016, and to Kevin Visconti who encouraged me to apply. Thank you to Desmond Lo for your ongoing support and colleagueship. Thank you to Deirdre Frontczak, Chris Lipp, Toby McChesney, Reggie Duhe, Meghan Cress, and Dennis Lanham, and all my fellow faculty members for your colleague-ship and care for our students. Special thanks to Bill Mains for your friendship and for being in my corner since day one of my SCU career. Also, special thanks to Erin Kimura-Walsh and the LEAD scholars staff and team of faculty. Erin, you are a remarkable individual. Like so many others, you find a way to give your all to your program and be a great spouse and parent. Thank you for being an early adopter of the Career Launch movement. And thank you for asking me to design and teach a class, for your program is one of the greatest highlights of my teaching career. Thank you, Lydia Ku and Marieli Rubio, for being leaders of the Empowered Students and Career Launch organizations. It brings me great joy to see your growth from being students to being partners/colleagues. Thank you to Rose Nakamoto for all the time you’ve invested in me and for your contributions to the development of Career Launch. Thank you to Chip Adams for being the reason I finally went “all-in” on helping others scale student impact. Thank you to everyone in the Bronco Venture Accelerator who provided guidance and encouragement to me and Career Launch. Thank you to Father O’Brien for your leadership, and for working with Joe Durepos on The Ignatian Adventure. Thank you to Keith Warner, Spencer Arnold, Kristin Kusanovich, Lester Deanes, Caryn Beck-Dudley, Liz Barron-Silva, Eva Blanco, Jen Ferrari, Katy Korsmeyer, Amy Peterson, Melissa Thiriez, Shellie Barber, Priscilla Vallejo, Priscilla Grille, Chris Norris, Morgan Slain, Mike Kovalich, Pam Vavra, Laura Norris, Ruth Davis, Shane Wibeto, Zach Plaza, and Becky Konowicz for your support and encouragement.

Thank you to all my former students, especially Kevin Seng, Isaac Nieblas, Sonya Jain, Veronica Yip, Alex Golden, Anjali Rangaswami, Garibaldi Soedarjo, Henning Jolivet, Janine Bautista, Isabella Draskovic, Ivanna Rivera, Kyle Yi, Max Hedges, Mitch Hansen, Stef Silverio, Torben Billow, Victor Zendejas, Yevin Lee, Brad O’Laughlin, Brenden Haggerty, Erika Harrar, Megan Wong, Roshan Rama, Austin Freitas, Ryan Chien, Matt Silvestri, Trevor Lundquist, Haley Beuligmann, John Ferrari, Cooper Roach, Gustavo Gutierrez, Stephanie Van, Caleigh Flaherty, Colby Moeller, Classye James, Tiana Nguyen, Juan Rascon-Borgia, Katie VanBenthuysen, Tannaz Azimi, Han Nguyen, Lisa Tanaka, Keith Ho, Claudia Amador, Tamara Zuniga, Martha Herrera Quintero, Robert Armero, Anyce Godoy, Sascha Zepeda, Nicole Figg, Jack Larratt, Jack Tuton, Collin Chan, Alex Kassil, Sabrina Matthews, Lauren Strnad, Caleigh Flaherty, James Kipper, Peter Nestor, Gen Kimura, Bryan Chang, Lauren Kinerk, Jessica Rameriz, Melina Wulin, Samuel Trujillo, Rose Tabares, Marilyn Vasquez, Rocio Cisneros, Hanna Shepps, Kyarra Keele, Wendy Jin, Tou Vang, Madeline Wong, Justin North, Regina Howson, Anne Marie Heywood, Daniel Teramoto, Christine Ha, Jen Nino, Jennifer Chun, Jerry Palacios, Ashley Osornio, Mate Aranyosi, Katie Elkind, Maria Muñoz Yepez, Austin Dickieson, Patty Yuzon, Jorge Estrella, Natali Gonzalez, Jason Chavez, Laura Blevins, Ryan Ebner, Stephen Fraser, Liam Buhl, Esther Landaverde, Amanda Le, Axel Perez, Diego Rojas, Jack Codiga, Kyle de la Fuente, Marialisa Caruso, John Lucier, Nick Wood, Phillip Barber, Aaron Brumbaugh, Colin Yang, Rena Abu-Gharbiyeh, Lyssa Urrutia, Tess Ryan, Yash Garg, Nicholas Platais, Jared Peterson, Rachel Wong, Spencer Stubblefield, Hannah Press, Mahak Kumari, Rachel Wiggins, Axel Hernandez Ruano, Emile Antone, Colman Lin, Daniela Lorenz, James Lungmus, Caleb Zatto, Eoin Lyons, Mary Fowler, Christian Arana, Stephanie Probst, Stephanie Hu, Delia Cuellar, Beau Muster, Aaron Chu, Noah Belkhous, Filip Orth, Sean Meagher, Mark Browne, Justin Gabriel, Karina Sanchez, Ralph Ong, Ashlyn Iwatani, Chris Bui, Michael D’Onofrio, Kosta Bijev, Colby Moeller, Michael DeBoard, Kemper Ray, Andy Meger, Alyssa Lee, and Marc Gehrig.

Thank you to those I’ve met more recently: Lisa Dominguez, Ron Gonzales, Kat Hait, Tessa Wright, Garfield Byrd, Shawn VanDerziel, Mimi Collins, Lindsay Romasanta, Alison Herr, Stephanie Estrada, Tori Bussey-Neal, Rachel Rivera, Bev McLean, Brian Dozer, Denise Mora, Ginger Neel, Laurie Eberhard, Mariaelena Marcano, Christy Jewell, Karri Hammertrom, April Farkas, Aliyah Morphis, Ericka Acquaah-Arhin, Lisa McCaffery, Chris Cook, Ray Murillo, Monika Royal-Fischer, Liz Herrera, Lauren Gallagher, Janel Highfill, Maggie Becker, Kelly Harper, Karen McCoy, Lisa Gavigan, Nathan Elton, Margaret Roberts, Robin Nackman, Ryan Atwell, Shayna Carney, Joe Lovejoy, Bill Baldus, Dee Pierce, Ethan Jones, Wil Jones, JJ Smith, Patrick Keebler, Jarret Kealey, Jim Lowe, Nancy Bilmes, Eran Peterson, Katie Puroll, Brian Candido, Brian Barts, Marc Goldman, Jamie Guilford, Betsy Knott, James Tarbox, Jenee Palmer, Merry Olson, Jennifer Baszile, Molly Thompson, Kim Heitzenrater, Eddy Cruz, Ali Rodriguez, Whitley Johnson, Shannon Hargrove, Jay Skipworth, Nina Grant, Cindy Parnell, Angi McKie, Claire Wu, Greg Wurth, Mario Vela, Adrian Rameriz, Amy Shaffer, Leah Turner, Gaston Cantu, Erron Gonzalez, Trish Heard-Welch, Pam Fant-Saez, Cathy Doyle, Everette Brooks, Beth Arman, Johnny Vahalik, Liz Ozuna, Bill Means, Missy Gutkowski, Denise Terry, Jaci Forshtay, Elizabeth Zavala-Acevez, Kelly Dries, Lauren Wooster, and Shenique Rojas-Hyman.

And to those whom I have missed: thank you.

With love and gratefulness,

Sean