Mobilizing Marginalized Students in Tech

On today's episode of 'Your Business Greatness,' host Simone Sloan, Executive Strategist, Founder, and Executive Coach at "Your Choice Coach," speaks with Linc Kroeger. He is the President of Knight Moves and is passionate about fighting social inequity. He served on a technical association for Iowa boards for three years. Podcast Key Points: Linc talks about Knight Moves, the objectives, and who the company is really trying to help and how the transition took place to where he is today. Linc's biggest challenge across the whole country is the community college instructor shortage. Even if they offer Knight's curriculum, they cannot provide the instructors. They are trying to come up with creative ways to do this and one of them is pure online or even outsourcing offshore. Episode Highlights After graduating from high school back in 1986, Linc joined the Air Force, went into Fortran training and technology, and was able to go right from high school into a job. For the last decade Linc has been in the consulting technology space, and in his last company he was the CEO of a technology services company. In Linc's 35 years working in corporate America, he did not see many moves happening in the DEI space. Knight Moves is an organization looking at elite technology and bringing professionals in their training. Some of the interesting data around indigenous groups is that they have one of the lowest attendance rates to four-year colleges, but they can have the most unused scholarships. No one gets excluded from our program because they cannot afford it, says Linc. As soon as you start building trust, you start getting referred to the network. When you go in and you recruit a group of students and then 2 or 3 of them drop out in the first three weeks because it doesn't work for them, that's probably the biggest, toughest challenge we had, says Linc. The Knight Move started as a nonprofit and then we flipped as a social benefiting or B Corp model because as a B Corp we do not have to make a profit, says Linc. There are some really creative things you can do out there if you are doing something valuable for a social benefit and impact that goes along with it. Words of wisdom: In anything that you choose to do in life, find your flow and flow Connect Simone Sloan: Website | LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube Linc Kroeger https://www.kKnightmoves.org/ or https://www.linkedin.com/in/linc-kroeger-19674b/