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Opportunity Navigation System

Opportunity Navigation System

Social Capital Builders

The Opportunity Navigation System™

The first system designed to build, measure, and maintain the relationships that create opportunity.

Schedule a Demo See How It Works

The Missing Measure

Stop Measuring Only What People Know.

For decades…

Schools

Schools have measured knowledge.

Training programs

Training programs have measured skills.

Employers

Employers have measured experience.

But almost no one has measured something equally important…

Who can help someone succeed.
Healthcare

Healthcare has Medical Records.

Finance

Finance has Accounting Systems.

Sales

Sales has CRM Systems.

Opportunity Navigation has…

The Opportunity Navigation System™

A Hard Truth

Imagine These Questions…

Can someone graduate with honors……and still not know one person in their industry?

YES.

Can someone have excellent job skills……but no one who can introduce them to an employer?

YES.

Can someone complete workforce training……without expanding their opportunity network?

YES.

Can organizations spend millions preparing people……without ever measuring whether they know the right people?

YES.

Then…

That's the problem.

The System

What Is the Opportunity Navigation System?

Every organization measures what people know. None measure the connections to the people who can help them succeed — until now.

The Opportunity Navigation System™ is a research-informed framework that helps organizations and individuals build, measure, and maintain the relationships that create opportunity.

Just as GPS helps people navigate roads, the Opportunity Navigation System helps people navigate opportunities by making the invisible world of connections visible, measurable, and actionable.

Whether the goal is employment, career advancement, education, entrepreneurship, or community well-being, opportunities rarely happen in isolation. They happen through people.

The Opportunity Navigation System gives individuals and organizations a practical way to identify the relationships they have, discover the relationships they need, and create a structured plan for turning connections into opportunities.

Opportunity Navigation gives organizations a system for measuring and strengthening the connections that drive opportunity.

The Pathway

How Opportunity Happens

Opportunity rarely arrives by accident. It moves through connections.

What You Discover

Every Audience Discovers Something Different.

🏛️

What Organizations Discover

"We've spent decades measuring knowledge, skills, and employment outcomes. The Opportunity Navigation System helps us measure something we've never been able to see before: whether participants have the relationships that create opportunity."

Key discoveries

  • Which participants have weak opportunity networks.
  • Which industries they lack access to.
  • Which staff are building the strongest networks.
  • Where relationship gaps exist before they become employment gaps.
  • How social capital grows over time.
🎓

What Youth & Adult Job Seekers Discover

"Success isn't just about having the right skills. It's about having access to the right people."

Key discoveries

  • Who is already in my network that I never recognized.
  • Where my opportunity gaps really are.
  • Which industries I need stronger connections in.
  • How to intentionally build relationships instead of hoping opportunities appear.
  • That I already have more social capital than I realized—and a plan to grow it.
🏢

What Businesses Discover

"Hiring isn't just about finding qualified candidates. It's about connecting with people who are prepared to build trusted relationships inside and outside the organization."

Key discoveries

  • Employees with stronger relationship skills adapt faster.
  • Intentional mentoring improves retention.
  • Internal networks drive collaboration and innovation.
  • Trusted relationships accelerate onboarding.
  • Strong social capital creates stronger organizational culture.
👥

What Coaches & Staff Discover

"For the first time, I can coach connections, not just resumes."

Key discoveries

  • Who is building momentum.
  • Who needs encouragement.
  • Where introductions could make the biggest difference.
  • Which Monthly Moves participants are completing.
  • How to coach opportunity instead of simply reacting to missed opportunities.

Every audience discovers something different.

But they all discover the same truth: opportunity is rarely random; it flows through connections.

Inside the System

Inside the Opportunity Navigation System™

A complete framework for building, measuring, and maintaining social capital.

01 · Assess

Centrality Strength Assessment™

Measure the strength, diversity, and quality of each participant's network.

Outcome

Know where participants have strong support—and where critical relationship gaps exist.

02 · Map

Network Classification™

Network Classification is the process of identifying and organizing the people, organizations and institutions already in one's network—directly or indirectly connected to an industry or market segment.

Outcome

Turn scattered contacts into a strategic opportunity network.

03 · Focus

Opportunity Fields™

Identify where participants have access—and where they need stronger connections.

Outcome

Help participants focus their relationship-building where it matters most.

04 · Act

Monthly Moves™

Simple monthly actions that build lasting social capital one relationship at a time.

Outcome

Transform relationship building from an occasional activity into a lifelong habit.

05 · Track

Social Capital Investment Planner™

Monitor outreach, follow-up, introductions, and relationship growth.

Outcome

Nothing important falls through the cracks.

06 · Measure

Reports & Dashboards

Give staff real-time visibility into participant engagement and network development.

Outcome

Measure progress—not just participation.

The Shift

A New Standard for Business, Career & Workforce Development.

The 20th century taught us to measure knowledge.

The 21st century will require us to measure opportunity.

The Opportunity Navigation System™ helps companies, organizations and individuals do both.

Get Started

Schedule a Demo

Simple.

See the Opportunity Navigation System™ in action and find out what your network is really telling you.

Social Capital Builders

The Opportunity Navigation System™

The first system designed to build, measure, and maintain the relationships that create opportunity.

Schedule a Demo See How It Works

The Missing Measure

Stop Measuring Only What People Know.

For decades…

Schools

Schools have measured knowledge.

Training programs

Training programs have measured skills.

Employers

Employers have measured experience.

But almost no one has measured something equally important…

Who can help someone succeed.
Healthcare

Healthcare has Medical Records.

Finance

Finance has Accounting Systems.

Sales

Sales has CRM Systems.

Opportunity Navigation has…

The Opportunity Navigation System™

The System

What Is the Opportunity Navigation System?

Every organization measures what people know. None measure the connections to the people who can help them succeed — until now.

The Opportunity Navigation System™ is a research-informed framework that helps organizations and individuals build, measure, and maintain the relationships that create opportunity.

Just as GPS helps people navigate roads, the Opportunity Navigation System helps people navigate opportunities by making the invisible world of connections visible, measurable, and actionable.

Whether the goal is employment, career advancement, education, entrepreneurship, or community well-being, opportunities rarely happen in isolation. They happen through people.

The Opportunity Navigation System gives individuals and organizations a practical way to identify the relationships they have, discover the relationships they need, and create a structured plan for turning connections into opportunities.

Opportunity Navigation gives organizations a system for measuring and strengthening the connections that drive opportunity.

Inside the System

Inside the Opportunity Navigation System™

A complete framework for building, measuring, and maintaining social capital.

01 · Assess

Centrality Strength Assessment™

Measure the strength, diversity, and quality of each participant's network.

Outcome

Know where participants have strong support—and where critical relationship gaps exist.

02 · Map

Network Classification™

Network Classification is the process of identifying and organizing the people, organizations and institutions already in one's network—directly or indirectly connected to an industry or market segment.

Outcome

Turn scattered contacts into a strategic opportunity network.

03 · Focus

Opportunity Fields™

Identify where participants have access—and where they need stronger connections.

Outcome

Help participants focus their relationship-building where it matters most.

04 · Act

Monthly Moves™

Simple monthly actions that build lasting social capital one relationship at a time.

Outcome

Transform relationship building from an occasional activity into a lifelong habit.

05 · Track

Social Capital Investment Planner™

Monitor outreach, follow-up, introductions, and relationship growth.

Outcome

Nothing important falls through the cracks.

06 · Measure

Reports & Dashboards

Give staff real-time visibility into participant engagement and network development.

Outcome

Measure progress—not just participation.

What You Discover

Every Audience Discovers Something Different.

🏛️

What Organizations Discover

"We've spent decades measuring knowledge, skills, and employment outcomes. The Opportunity Navigation System helps us measure something we've never been able to see before: whether participants have the relationships that create opportunity."

Key discoveries

  • Which participants have weak opportunity networks.
  • Which industries they lack access to.
  • Which staff are building the strongest networks.
  • Where relationship gaps exist before they become employment gaps.
  • How social capital grows over time.
🎓

What Youth & Adult Job Seekers Discover

"Success isn't just about having the right skills. It's about having access to the right people."

Key discoveries

  • Who is already in my network that I never recognized.
  • Where my opportunity gaps really are.
  • Which industries I need stronger connections in.
  • How to intentionally build relationships instead of hoping opportunities appear.
  • That I already have more social capital than I realized—and a plan to grow it.
🏢

What Businesses Discover

"Hiring isn't just about finding qualified candidates. It's about connecting with people who are prepared to build trusted relationships inside and outside the organization."

Key discoveries

  • Employees with stronger relationship skills adapt faster.
  • Intentional mentoring improves retention.
  • Internal networks drive collaboration and innovation.
  • Trusted relationships accelerate onboarding.
  • Strong social capital creates stronger organizational culture.
👥

What Coaches & Staff Discover

"For the first time, I can coach connections, not just resumes."

Key discoveries

  • Who is building momentum.
  • Who needs encouragement.
  • Where introductions could make the biggest difference.
  • Which Monthly Moves participants are completing.
  • How to coach opportunity instead of simply reacting to missed opportunities.

Every audience discovers something different.

But they all discover the same truth: opportunity is rarely random; it flows through connections.

The Shift

A New Standard for Business, Career & Workforce Development.

The 20th century taught us to measure knowledge.

The 21st century will require us to measure opportunity.

The Opportunity Navigation System™ helps companies, organizations and individuals do both.

A Hard Truth

Imagine These Questions…

Can someone graduate with honors……and still not know one person in their industry?

YES.

Can someone have excellent job skills……but no one who can introduce them to an employer?

YES.

Can someone complete workforce training……without expanding their opportunity network?

YES.

Can organizations spend millions preparing people……without ever measuring whether they know the right people?

YES.

Then…

That's the problem.

Get Started

Schedule a Demo

Simple.

See the Opportunity Navigation System™ in action and find out what your network is really telling you.

The data behind opportunity

The Opportunity Navigation System is Social Capital Builders’ structured learning and coaching platform for helping organizations improve economic mobility and social well being by strengthening the connections that influence access to jobs, training, advancement, and long term outcomes. It was developed to capture and use data on participants’ access to industry and community stakeholders, an area that has historically gone unmeasured in workforce and youth development.

At its core, the Opportunity Navigation System helps programs see what is often invisible. It reveals where opportunity access is weak, where industry and community connections need to grow, and how staff can intentionally support the kinds of relationships that lead to real outcomes.

Why it matters

Economic mobility and social well being do not happen by chance. They grow when people can make and navigate connections with guidance, structure, and accountability. The Opportunity Navigation System is designed to improve the quality, consistency, and impact of participant connections while helping programs strengthen insight into access and readiness.

Most programs track services, attendance, and participation. Far fewer are able to track access to the people, organizations, and institutions that shape opportunity. This system helps fill that gap with a practical process and meaningful data. That framing is an interpretation based on your source language about measuring connection access and using that insight to improve programming and outcomes.

What the Opportunity Navigation System does

The system helps organizations:

  • Understand connection access and centrality
  • Analyze existing industry and community connections\
  • Support real world engagement through guided activities
  • Help participants sustain engagement using everyday tools
  • Strengthen program insight into access and opportunity readiness

The three pillars

Build Connections

Participants learn why connections matter and how to identify and initiate connections with people, organizations, and institutions aligned with their goals.

Sustain Connections

Participants are supported through a structured process that helps them stay visible, relevant, and reciprocal with key connections through guided outreach and follow up.

Connection Strength

Programs and participants learn how impressions, signals, and consistency shape connection strength and access to opportunity, giving them tools to build and leverage the connections that matter most.

How it works

Step 1: Connection Data

Participants identify and document their existing connections to people, organizations, and institutions within relevant industry opportunity fields. This creates a clearer picture of who is already in their orbit and where access exists.

Step 2: Data Analysis and Improvement

Participants analyze their connection data to identify strengths, gaps, and missed opportunities. Through structured reflection and social network analysis tools, they learn how to improve the quality, positioning, and usefulness of their connections over time.

Step 3: Supported Connection Building

Participants receive ongoing support to build, strengthen, and maintain connections using guided outreach, follow up strategies, and structured activities that help turn connection data into real career progress.

Why this approach works

The Opportunity Navigation System is designed to work across different program models, including self directed and instructor assisted settings. It helps build the capacity and connections of staff as well as participants, aligns participant goals with program level relationships, and keeps the work human guided rather than AI dependent. Technology is used selectively to support communication and reflection without replacing trust, judgment, or human connection.

Who it is for

The Opportunity Navigation System is built for mission driven systems, employers, schools, and community organizations that want to strengthen connection access, improve outcomes, and advance economic mobility and social well being. It is especially relevant for programs serving youth, adults, returning citizens, and entrepreneurs through structured support and partnership.

Who we partner with

Funders and policymakers
 Invest in scalable, evidence informed approaches
 Gain visibility into how access to opportunity is being built
 Support outcomes beyond placement alone

Programs, schools, employers, and organizations
 Strengthen pathways from classroom to career
 Make better use of community partnerships
 Use data to identify relationship gaps

Youth and adults through partner organizations
 Access hidden jobs and opportunities
 Build connections that open real doors
 Gain advocates, not just services

Explore the Opportunity Navigation System

The Opportunity Navigation System helps repair the missing link between people, opportunity, and long term outcomes by giving organizations a practical way to understand, strengthen, and support the connections that matter. It is not just about relationships in general. It is about helping participants navigate access to the people, organizations, and institutions that shape hiring, retention, advancement, and mobility.

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