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Our nation is rich with worthy organizations helping individuals survive, but MLT takes this a step further by forging a future where everyone can thrive, with freedom to chart their own path and to pass on what they’ve built to the next generation.
Unfortunately, too many of our fellow Americans face pervasive barriers that prevent them from thriving in a system where one’s social network still plays a significant role in defining success.
Taken together, these barriers create a system built for surviving, not thriving, and contribute to the generational cycles that keep most people from rising out of the socioeconomic status into which they were born.
Despite impressive gains in college access over the years, ~50% of all college graduates are unemployed or in a job that doesn’t require a college degree soon after graduation. Graduates from low-income households earn ~15% less in starting salary than peers from households making more than $100,000 and these disparities are even more severe for graduates of color.
MLT works with thousands of college students each year to expand their economic opportunities by connecting them with top employers.
“Women founders typically don’t get funding in tech. Envisioning a network of MLT peers that we can tap into really stands out for us.”
VC founder (Peerless Pitch)Data shows that some groups are advancing more successfully than others and even those who reach an upper income level are more susceptible to regress downward at some point in their career. For example: 35% of senior executives are women and less than 5% are Black and Hispanic, despite representing 53% and 21% of college graduates respectively.
MLT stays with individuals throughout their careers, helping them maintain positive earnings trajectories and maximize their leadership influence in areas that have the potential to expand economic opportunity for others.
Entrepreneurship has always been a key source of innovation, wealth generation, and job creation in our country, but the “startup arena” is even less accessible than other segments of the economy.
MLT targets these barriers directly, with initiatives specifically designed to boost career pathways into high-growth businesses.
“If your company remains committed to making tangible progress, I highly recommend MLT. Their program has fit hand in glove with our interest in adding rigor to our efforts to create a fair and meritocratic workplace and we’ve made far more progress in a short period of time than we thought possible.”
Senior executive from a leading global private investment firmWith a majority of Americans working for medium-to-large companies, employer talent practices have a massive impact on an individual’s ability to thrive. In fact, research on demographic wealth gaps has identified that factors controlled by employers – lifetime earnings and benefits – are typically responsible for two thirds of these gaps.
MLT is a key talent source and trusted advisor to over 200 major employers that collectively employ over 7 million Americans. MLT’s insights, frameworks, and best practices help employers significantly expand their hiring pipelines, improve the way they develop their next generation of leaders, implement more meritocratic talent evaluation practices, improve their pay and benefits practices to better serve all employees, and much more.
Recruit, advance, and retain top talent to help you build a better workplace.
