Building Leadership through Opportunity, Ownership & Mentorship
Help Them Keeping Moving Forward
Some students have real potential but lack the extra layer of support that helps them move forward with confidence. BLOOM offers one-on-one virtual leadership coaching designed to help these students build the self-awareness, resilience, and decision-making skills they need — not just for the next test or application, but for the path ahead.
Through a BLOOM sponsorship, your institution can make this coaching accessible to a student who needs it, at no cost to them.
How It Works
- $1,800 per sponsored student, covering a full 6-month term
- One flat fee — no per-session billing or added costs
- Students must agree to a minimum of one scheduled session per month with additional sessions available as needed throughout the term
- Delivered one-on-one, virtual, through a strengths-based, positive psychology model
- Eligibility is for high school seniors and college students only
Why Create Competitive Programs?
Students who actively pursue an opportunity engage with it differently than those who are simply assigned to it. Psychological research on effort and motivation backs this up: when someone has to work for something — apply, compete, be selected — they tend to value it more and commit to it more fully than when it’s handed to them with no barrier to entry. This is sometimes called effort justification: the more a person invests to earn something, the more they come to see it as worth having.
Selection itself changes how a student shows up. Studies on selective programs have found that students who go through an application or admissions process report feeling more autonomous, more capable, and more connected to the opportunity — and that this shift shows up as real, measurable motivation, not just a feeling.
A BLOOM sponsorship isn’t just funding a seat in a program. It’s creating a threshold a student has to cross — and in doing so, it brings out the kind of character and commitment that only shows up when something has to be earned.
Get Started
BLOOM sponsorships are limited. I’d welcome the opportunity to walk you through how a sponsorship works and reserve a spot for your institution.
How It Works
- Schedule a consultation to reserve your sponsorship spot or join the waitlist.
- Announce the opportunity to students once your spot is secured. I recommend a short application process — a 500-word essay with a two-week submission deadline — and awarding the sponsorship on a first-come basis once applications are reviewed.
- Submit the student form, which will be provided at your consultation once your slot is confirmed, to begin the sponsorship.
- Sessions begin. All coaching sessions are one-on-one and confidential between the student and coach.
- Monthly check-ins. I recommend your institution — rather than Gardenia Group — conduct a brief monthly satisfaction survey with the sponsored student. Administering it independently gives you a transparent, anonymous read on the student’s experience, free of any concern about feedback being influenced.