THE HONOR FOUNDATION

The Honor Foundation (THF) prepares the U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) community to successfully transition to the civilian workplace, leveraging their leadership abilities and other learned skills from their SOF experiences.

THF’s mission is to take on the responsibility of filling the gap in military transition services and provide a high-value comprehensive transition program for members of the U.S. Special Operations Forces who have honorably served their country.

THF’s vision is to impact every transitioning service member from the U.S. Special Operations enterprise and be a catalyst for overhauling and innovating the entire Department of Defense (DOD) transition program. Just as SOF is the vanguard for testing and development for the conventional force, our goal is to provide the SOF population with a successful comprehensive training program.

Program Services Description:

The Honor Foundation program fills a critical gap in transition services for the most elite warriors in the U.S., those who have served honorably as the vanguard for our nation’s military. Despite being the absolute highest performing veterans transitioning out of military service, many have struggled through underemployment, unemployment, and unhappiness.

Over the length of the program, Fellows consider their strengths, priorities, and "why," they benefit from tailored and comprehensive executive education, 1:1 coaching, mentoring, and access to an exclusive professional network of nearly 5,000 executives across seven major industries of business.

Our sessions operate in 4 phases:
Phase 1: Fellows take an introspective look, working with professional coaches and mentors.
Phase 2: Fellows are taught to translate their professional work history for impact in the civilian sector.
Phase 3: Fellows target specific career interests, and experience different organizations and cultures first-hand.
Phase 4: Fellows become Alumni and our team continues to serve them as they may still be Active Duty post-graduation, transitioning from another job, or wanting to engage with other Fellows going through the program to create a community.

Every aspect of The Honor Foundation executive education program is been inspired by the way Special Operators work in the field. We seek out experts in personal and professional development fields to teach aspects of the transition program, similarly as SOF trains with the best experts while serving on active duty. Our curriculum focuses on 28 key transitional readiness themes isolated through extensive research and feedback. It reflects the precise knowledge and experience a Special Operator needs to navigate any transition throughout his or her career.

Fellows are challenged to prepare for military transition just as they would prepare for their next mission. THF explains that transition is a "team sport" and we guide them on how to build their transition team, and introduce them to potential members of the team who can support them beyond the 3-month program. We also give them tools and the training to deploy an effective plan, market themselves and conduct a successful and thorough job search. Lastly, and arguably most importantly we guide them on how to tell their personal story, build a network and offer access to individuals who have agreed to have meetings with fellows as they explore potential careers post-military service.

At THF, we focus on increasing Transition Readiness. We effectively accomplish this through the phases of our executive education program. This includes a structured mix of additive and experiential learning, business simulations, and other professional enrichment methodologies.

The Honor Foundation is a designated 501(c)3 non-profit organization. In our short 7.5 years, we have four three physical campuses in San Diego, CA; Virginia Beach, VA; Wilmington, NC; and Ft. Bragg, NC. THF also established a virtual campus in 2019 to service the U.S. Special Operations Forces community stationed anywhere around the globe. As demand for the program grows at an exponential rate, THF plans to double the size of our virtual offering and looks to bring the program to other Special Operations headquarters in the United States.

THF has built a world-class transition program with 1:1 professional coaching for each Fellow and access to a network of 400+ executives who serve as mentors and advisors for our transitioning population.

We are proud to have served 1300 Special Operations families through our full 3-month transition program, and we have served over 700 hundred more service members through content-rich seminars. After graduating from our program, 96% of THF Alumni report they are "fulfilled" 90 days after leaving service. We define fulfillment as the participant achieving their personal objective in one of the following categories: employment, continuing education, or sabbatical.

We serve The Honor Foundation Alumni with honor, for life. This includes the development of a new program for continued professional development.

The Honor Foundation is changing lives by offering clear guidance for service members to find their purpose outside of the military, reversing the narrative of negative outcomes for transitioning veterans and elevating our elite military to be prepared to serve at their full capacity in the private sector, for the mutual benefit of all.