

Are you ready to finally build it for yourself?
A 3-minute diagnostic that scores your readiness to move from corporate to founder.
Built for Directors and VPs ready to leverage their career capital into ownership. Not employment.
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How it works:
We'll ask you 20 rapid-fire questions to see how ready you are to move from corporate to founder.

- Research-Based Questions
Built from field-tested principles of leadership transition and entrepreneurial readiness, and refined across 170+ clients. - Detailed Graduation Readiness Score
A clear, data-driven breakdown across key dimensions of personal and professional readiness, showing exactly where you’re strong and where refinement is needed. - Personalized Graduation Report
A custom, executive-grade report with strategic recommendations and next steps for building a founder business and exiting corporate for good.
Why Take the Corporate Graduation® Diagnostic?

Pinpoint Your Bottlenecks
Assess exactly where you stand today: how aligned your mindset, model, and environment are for founder-level success.

Uncover Points of Leverage
Clarify the specific strengths and constraints that will most influence your ability to build an IP-led business and graduate corporate.

Accelerate a Smart Transition
Get a personalized readiness report with the next steps for the layer that's furthest behind.
What they're saying:
“You don’t understand how hard it is to exit corporate until you go through the fully messy process. What I learned here prepared me so well.”

Kristin Sargent
CEO, Tech Startup Advisory
Former Innovation Director, Booz Allen

"Invaluable perspective! The level of rigor, systems thinking, and holistic analysis provides extremely actionable guidance in crafting an authentic business and life design.”

Lee Stringham
Founder, FinLaw Orchestration™
Former CFO, Emergent

"This mentally prepared me for life beyond corporate. And built the business that supports my new life."

Lance Cibik
Founder, Command Attention
Former SVP, Truist Bank

"After 30 years, I just resigned from corporate life. This gave me the perspective to treat it as a natural graduation."

Frank Marinello
Founder, Scopello Capital Partners
Former VP, Basin Street

"The insights gathered here sparked a massive shift for me. After 27 years in Corporate America, the Corporate Graduation system launched me into my board-level advisory practice."

Todd Inskeep
CEO, Incovate Solutions
Former SVP, Bank of America

"This diagnostic helped me deeply question the default path. I broke free, and now I've built a portfolio career that generates the freedom I was after for years."

Chris Thompson
CEO, Career Free Agency
Former Sr. Director, New York Life

“You don’t understand how hard it is to exit corporate until you go through the fully messy process. What I learned here prepared me so well.”

Kristin Sargent
CEO, Tech Startup Advisory
Former Innovation Director, Booz Allen

"Invaluable perspective! The level of rigor, systems thinking, and holistic analysis provides extremely actionable guidance in crafting an authentic business and life design.”

Lee Stringham
Founder, FinLaw Orchestration™
Former CFO, Emergent

"This mentally prepared me for life beyond corporate. And built the business that supports my new life."

Lance Cibik
Founder, Command Attention
Former SVP, Truist Bank

"After 30 years, I just resigned from corporate life. This gave me the perspective to treat it as a natural graduation."

Frank Marinello
Founder, Scopello Capital Partners
Former VP, Basin Street

"The insights gathered here sparked a massive shift for me. After 27 years in Corporate America, the Corporate Graduation system launched me into my board-level advisory practice."

Todd Inskeep
CEO, Incovate Solutions
Former SVP, Bank of America

"This diagnostic helped me deeply question the default path. I broke free, and now I've built a portfolio career that generates the freedom I was after for years."

Chris Thompson
CEO, Career Free Agency
Former Sr. Director, New York Life

“You don’t understand how hard it is to exit corporate until you go through the fully messy process. What I learned here prepared me so well.”

Kristin Sargent
CEO, Tech Startup Advisory
Former Innovation Director, Booz Allen

"Invaluable perspective! The level of rigor, systems thinking, and holistic analysis provides extremely actionable guidance in crafting an authentic business and life design.”

Lee Stringham
Founder, FinLaw Orchestration™
Former CFO, Emergent



Built by Someone Who’s Lived It.
Architected By Matt Doan
Founder, Corporate Graduation®
I spent nearly two decades leading global transformations at Fortune 500 companies, including through firms like BCG and Booz Allen. I know what it’s like to operate at the highest levels while balancing leadership, marriage, parenthood, and creating a life that actually fits.
Over the past 9+ years, I’ve been mentored by world-class entrepreneurs and performance coaches, applying those lessons to my own corporate graduation and to the 170+ leaders we’ve guided through theirs.
Today, I lead Corporate Graduation®: a comprehensive program that guides accomplished professionals to turn career capital into premium, founder-level autonomy.