Our Fellowship
Our Fellowship
Textbooks cannot teach the skills required for career success today. Professionals need practice, guidance, and mentorship, and collaborative peer environments to deliver their full potential. Our Fellowship model is designed to deliver exactly that three-dimensional experience to ensure that you get the clarity, credibility, and confidence you need to navigate a purposeful career in these tumultuous times.
Our Model
Leadership Development
PGI Fellows benefit from flexible and engaging sessions with global experts about business as a force for good, as well as guided reflection about their own strengths, style, needs, and purpose.
Internship
PGI Fellows do work that is mission-critical and real-time four our Partners. They spend time on projects that deliver value for the organization and its community AND provide powerful career credentials for future employment.
Community
The PGI Community is broad and deep, united by a shared commitment to use our work and lives as a force for good, serving people and planet. Fellow's cohort of peers provide feedback and collaboration, and the boarder network is full of potential mentors, employers, and partners.
MBA PURPOSEFUL GROWTH SUMMER FELLOWSHIP
The PG MBA Fellowship is a highly selective, 10-week virtual program that gives participants over 50+ hours of learning, reflection, and practice to grow purposefully into a high-impact professional. Topics covered include the latest thinking and practice in social and environmental impact, as well as the skills and personal development tools required to navigate a successful purpose-driven career.
The Fellowship enhances Fellows’ learning and performance during their summer internships, while also providing the lifelong tools required to navigate the less-traveled path of a purposeful career after your MBA.
- First-year MBA students
- Curious, flexible, adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity
- Strong presentation and interpersonal skills
- Enthusiasm for working in diverse (and potentially remote) project sites
- Work smart and have impeccable professional standards
- Commitment to PGI’s mission & values
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE BUSINESS PLAN INTERNSHIP
The National Parks Business Plan Internship (BPI) is a highly selective summer program for top graduate students studying business, public policy, environmental management, and related fields. Over the course of eleven weeks, pairs of interns work in various parks and regional offices across the country, where they lead strategic projects that impact the long-term health of these vital American resources.
A competitive 11-week internship program runs June through August and begins with an intense and structured week-long NPS operations orientation on-site in a national park (past training sites have included Grand Teton National Park, Yosemite National Park, and Rocky Mountain National Park).
Team and project matching occurs prior to training; teams get a chance to work with their project manager and park/project liaison (the team’s client) at training before traveling to their project site.
Summer consultants benefit from one-on-one mentoring with seasoned project managers, and many credit their BPI experience with playing a vital role in their current career path.
Who Should Apply
Applicants for our fellowships should be:
- First-year MBA students who are committed to growing purposefully in both their work and life
- Willingness to do self-reflection, learning, and authentic peer interaction
- Courage to do what’s required to advance a more sustainable and inclusive way of working and living.
- Are curious, flexible, adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity
- Strong presentation and interpersonal skills
- Enthusiasm for working in diverse (and potentially remote) project sites
- Work smart and have impeccable professional standards
- Would be awesome companions if stranded in an airport for 12 hours
Additional requirements:
- Minimum of two years of full-time experience (i.e. non-internship) professional work experience
- Full-time graduate student at the time of the application
- Have at least one year of their graduate program left to complete
- Availability for program dates (June 13 – August 19, 2022)
- Commitment to PGIs’ mission and values, and a passion to use their business training as a force for good
Who Should Apply
Applicants for our fellowships should be:
- First-year MBA students who are committed to growing purposefully in both their work and life
- Willingness to do self-reflection, learning, and authentic peer interaction
- Courage to do what’s required to advance a more sustainable and inclusive way of working and living.
- Are curious, flexible, adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity
- Strong presentation and interpersonal skills
- Enthusiasm for working in diverse (and potentially remote) project sites
- Work smart and have impeccable professional standards
- Would be awesome companions if stranded in an airport for 12 hours
Additional requirements:
- Minimum of two years of full-time experience (i.e. non-internship) professional work experience
- Full-time graduate student at the time of the application
- Have at least one year of their graduate program left to complete
- Availability for program dates (June 13 – August 19, 2022)
- Commitment to PGIs’ mission and values, and a passion to use their business training as a force for good
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