Spend a week mentoring high school students in Tacoma

Washington Business Week (WBW) places professionals with high school students in a dynamic workplace simulation where students role play as industry professionals, launch a company, and solve real-world challenges.

As a Company Advisor (CA), you will be the team’s guide. This unique opportunity to educate and empower students also develops your leadership skills firsthand. Share your expertise in your team’s “workplace”, engage them in critical thinking exercises, and provide feedback on mission and vision.

Behind the scenes, you and other volunteer professionals from around the world will network, gain practical management insights from our program staff, and learn from each others’ experiences to inspire your team to victory.

Company Advisors often call WBW one of their favorite weeks of the year, as the week brings them deep fulfillment while also helping them grow as people and as leaders. You’ll be surprised the lifelong connections you make with students and deep friendships and community you forge with other CAs.

CAs identify coaching/mentoring, adaptability, influencing, presenting information, delegating and teambuilding as some of the competencies they sharpened.

This is an overnight program so you will have the opportunity to stay on campus and have all meals provided. Training will take place on Saturday and the program will kick off on Sunday when students arrive.

Why be a Company Advisor?

Give Back

Being a Company Advisor is a great way to use the skills you’ve developed in your career to support the next generation.

This skills-based volunteering opportunity offers a second-to-none way to impart lessons you fought hard to learn to students.

Develop Your Skills

As a Company Advisor, you’ll hear from all the incredible speakers and presenters Washington Business Week brings to students oversee a university level business simulation, while also developing your skills as a leader and a facilitator, through WBW’s CA specific training.

Create an Impact

Students remember their Company Advisors (CA) decades later. You can help shape a student’s story. Inspiring them to achieve or teaching them a lesson they’ll never forget.

Being a CA means you can be a lasting part of someone’s life.

Make Change

Most Business Week students come from groups underrepresented in corporate leadership today.

You’ll help students make connections and learn lessons that will get them far ahead in their careers and play a role in changing the face of tomorrow’s board room.

Build Friendships

Working closely with a team of other Company Advisors, you’ll be surprised how quickly you make deep friendships and lasting friendships with other professionals.