Your Diaspora Experience Is a Leadership Advantage

You grew up moving between languages, kitchens, holidays, and expectations, and you carry strengths that deserve a name. The Diaspora Academy helps diaspora professionals and children of immigrants turn that experience into clear direction, confident leadership, and work that reaches the communities and countries they care about.

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Resources

Diaspora Resources for Your Next Move

Where Your Diaspora Strengths Lead

How many of you spent Saturdays at language school, long holidays at relatives’ houses, or summers translating for the family? Those years built real skills: reading two cultures at once, earning trust across generations, and moving between worlds with ease.

We help you name those strengths and put them to work in your career, your community, and your connection to your country, region, or ancestral homeland.

Pathways

Diaspora Clarity Coaching Sessions

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One-to-one coaching for diaspora professionals with a specific decision in front of them: investing in their ancestral homeland, entering a business across cultures, or reconciling the hyphenated experience. Sessions meet monthly over three or four months.

Diaspora Leadership Program

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A live, online cohort for diaspora members ready to lead. You leave with a Diaspora Vision Statement, a Constituency Power Map, an Audience Engagement Roadmap, an Impact Measurement Framework, and a Multi-Audience Impact Communication Plan.

Products for Individuals

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Start on your own, at your own pace. Self-paced tools, including the free Are You Part of the Diaspora? quiz and the Diaspora Strengths Assessment Workbook, help you name your diaspora strengths and choose your next step.

Diaspora Changemaker Trainings

Diaspora Changemaker Trainings give diaspora leaders the skills to turn care for their communities into lasting change, here and in their countries of origin. The Diaspora Academy delivers these trainings in partnership with community organizations, coalitions, and funders, so each one reaches a group ready to put it to work.

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Diaspora Advocacy Training

Learn how policy is made and where diaspora voices fit at the local, state, and federal levels. Participants set an advocacy agenda, identify the decision-makers who can move their issue, build alliances with other organizations, and leave with an advocacy one-pager for their next meeting with an elected official.

Coming soon

Diaspora Entrepreneurship Training

A practical path from your diaspora idea to a business or organization of your own, with the steps to plan it, launch it, and grow it. Details are on the way.

Bringing a training to your organization, coalition, or community? Tell us about your group and we will design it with you.

Testimonials

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F A Q

Clear Answers for Your Next Step

These answers help diaspora members choose the pathway that fits where they are today, from one-to-one coaching to the Diaspora Leadership Program and self-paced tools. Each one points you to a clear next step.

Who are these pathways for?

They are for diaspora professionals and children of immigrants, most between 25 and 50, who want their diaspora experience to shape their career, their community work, or their connection to their country, region, or ancestral homeland. Anyone with a diaspora experience is welcome.

The Diaspora Academy uses the International Organization for Migration definition: emigrants and their descendants who live outside their country of birth or origin and keep ties to that country. Two questions decide it. Commitment: do you keep ties through language, culture, family, or work? Consciousness: are you aware of that connection, or actively building it? Both count. Take the free quiz to find out.

Choose coaching when you have a specific decision in front of you and want one-to-one guidance. Choose the Diaspora Leadership Program to build your vision and plan alongside a cohort of diaspora leaders. Choose a product for individuals when you want to begin on your own, at your own pace.

Yes. Coaching sessions and the Diaspora Leadership Program meet online, so you can join from any city or country.

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