Student Success &
Life Readiness Platform
LaunchPoint Navigator connects career discovery, academic planning, financial education, and workforce readiness in one comprehensive student-centered platform.
One platform. One connected student journey.From discovering interests to planning for graduation, managing money, exploring education options, and preparing for the workforce.
Nine capabilities. One connected student journey.
Each part of LaunchPoint Navigator builds on the others. What a student discovers about their interests shapes the careers they explore, the education they plan for, the money skills they practice, and the graduation plan they follow.
- Interest Discovery Assessments
- Career Exploration
- Workforce Intelligence
- Education Roadmap
- Individual Graduation Plan (IGP)
- Financial Foundry
- Financial Life
- Budgeting Tools
Interest Discovery Assessments
Help students identify their interests, strengths, and potential career pathways.
Connects to: Career Exploration
Career Exploration
Explore 3,888 careers, including salaries, educational requirements, skills, and future workforce demand.
Connects to: Education Roadmap · Budgeting Tools
Workforce Intelligence
Explore employment opportunities, regional economic conditions, industries, and geographic career possibilities.
Connects to: Career Exploration · Education Roadmap
Education Roadmap
Research colleges, universities, technical programs, degrees, costs, and financial aid opportunities.
Connects to: Individual Graduation Plan · Budgeting Tools
Individual Graduation Plan (IGP)
Help students and educators manage academic pathways, graduation requirements, course planning, and progress toward graduation.
Connects to: Student Success Center
Financial Foundry
Progressive, grade-appropriate financial literacy education that helps students develop essential money-management knowledge.
Connects to: Financial Life
Financial Life
Interactive financial simulations where students experience paychecks, budgeting, saving, investing, expenses, and real-world financial decisions.
Connects to: Budgeting Tools · My Profile
Budgeting Tools
Help students understand income, expenses, financial priorities, and the relationship between career decisions and lifestyle affordability.
Connects to: Career Exploration · Financial Life
Student Success Center & My Profile
Bring student progress, achievements, planning activities, and important milestones together in one centralized experience.
Connects to: Every part of the platform
More Than Career Exploration. More Than Financial Literacy. More Than Graduation Planning.
Most educational tools focus on one part of a student’s journey. LaunchPoint Navigator brings career discovery, academic planning, financial education, and workforce readiness together, helping students connect the decisions they make today with the opportunities available tomorrow.
Students Don’t Experience Life in Separate Modules. Their Planning Tools Shouldn’t Be Separate Either.
- Career choice
- Education requirements
- Education costs
- Earning potential
- Budget
- Future lifestyle
Choosing a career shapes the education it requires. That education carries a cost, and the career carries an earning potential. Together they decide what a student’s budget — and future lifestyle — can look like. LaunchPoint Navigator helps students see those connections while there is still time to act on them.
Built to support students over time — not just once.
LaunchPoint Navigator is not a one-time assessment or a single course. It grows with students from middle school through high school, graduation, and the first steps after.
- Middle school
Discover
Find interests and strengths.
Interest Discovery Assessments
- Middle & high school
Explore
See real careers, what they pay, and where the jobs are.
Career Exploration · Workforce Intelligence
- High school
Plan
Map courses, graduation requirements, and education options.
Individual Graduation Plan · Education Roadmap
- Grades 6–12
Learn
Build money knowledge one grade at a time.
Financial Foundry
- High school
Apply
Practice real-world money decisions.
Financial Life · Budgeting Tools
- Senior year
Graduate
Track milestones and progress toward a diploma.
Individual Graduation Plan · Student Success Center
- After graduation
Launch
Step into college, training, or the workforce with a plan.
Education Roadmap · My Profile
Job vs. Career: What's the Difference?
A job is something you do today. A career is the path you're building for tomorrow.
Every career starts somewhere.
LaunchPoint Navigator helps you explore careers, discover pathways, and take the next step toward your future.
Explore Careers →Seven things every student deserves to have
LaunchPoint Navigator was built around seven equally important pillars — the same seven things its founder never had growing up, and built to give every student.
Any county.
One dashboard.
Made for you.
Pick any county in the country and get a full opportunity dashboard — the local economy today, who’s hiring, what’s coming, education, and cost of living — plus a personal match score, built on government data.
Every path to a great career
Compare real costs, admission standards, scholarships, grants, and available majors for every type of institution — from 4-year universities to free bootcamps.
Every career. Full profile. Instant.
Click any career to instantly see salary by experience level, career stability analysis, education requirements, a daily schedule, career ladder, top local employers, and required skills.
Brought to students through those who champion them
LaunchPoint Navigator reaches students through the parents, schools, and institutions that believe in their potential and want to give them every advantage.
Built from personal experience.
I was the student who didn't know what I didn't know. I didn't know what careers existed beyond the few I'd seen growing up. I didn't know how to find scholarships — or that thousands of dollars in free money existed, waiting to be claimed by students exactly like me. I didn't know how interest worked, how student loans compounded, or how the financial decisions I made at 18 would follow me for years. Nobody handed me a map to help me navigate all of this.
Every student deserves a lighthouse. This is mine — for them, and for my girls.
The stress doesn't just belong to the student.
With the skyrocketing cost of colleges and universities, the weight of paying for higher education falls on the entire family. LaunchPoint Navigator was built to lift that weight.
For the Student
The pressure of choosing the right career, the right school, and figuring out how to pay for it — all at 16 or 17 years old — is enormous. Most students carry this alone. LaunchPoint Navigator gives every student a clear picture: careers, costs, scholarships, and a real plan.
For the Parents
Parents lie awake wondering how they'll manage tuition bills, student loans, and whether their child is heading in the right direction. When a student uses LaunchPoint Navigator to claim every dollar of available aid, the financial relief isn't just theirs — it's the whole family's.
"With the skyrocketing cost of colleges and universities, students and parents need all the help they can get. LaunchPoint Navigator was built specifically to provide that help — not just for the student sitting in the classroom, but for the entire family counting on them. I built it for every student out there, and I built it for my daughters Carlton and Collins — so they will always have the guidance and the map that I never had."
"LaunchPoint Navigator is exactly the kind of forward-thinking tool that financial institutions have been looking for. It gives us a structured, scalable way to deliver real financial literacy to the students and communities we serve — and it maps directly to our Community Reinvestment Act goals in a way that's both meaningful and documentable. This isn't just a checkbox exercise; it's a platform that creates genuine impact for the people in our communities who need it most."
Ideas That Move Education and Workforce Forward
Keeping Talent Home
Explore how schools and states can connect student aspirations with workforce intelligence to strengthen local talent pipelines and create compelling reasons for young people to build their futures closer to home.
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Career discovery. Academic planning. Financial education. Workforce readiness. One Student Success & Life Readiness Platform — available through the parents, schools, and organizations that champion students.