YamaU

Author of SDGs for Solopreneurs | Professor | Founder of YamaU | Former U.N Officer

UN SDGs for Impact Solopreneurs

Professor Yama Mubtaker

Author of SDGs for Impact Solopreneurs | Professor | Founder of YamaU | Ex U.N

Recognize a real issue you care about and narrow it into a focused starting point.

dentify a Meaningful Problem

Understand how to use SDGs to spot opportunities and IDGs to empower yourself to build a meaningful solution.

Use SDGs and IDGs as Practical Lenses

Translate your concern into a clear, personal direction for your impact solopreneur journey.

Define Your Starting Direction

Go from full-time tech worker to successful solopreneur and launch your client-ready business in 2 weeks.

Tech pro who replaced salary going solo

GitHub

Neo4j

Vail

Clair Sullivan

20+ year tech veteran who who created a successful solo business from scratch.

Cohort 2

Cohort 3

You're competing with thousands of applicants for every role, submitting hundreds of applications that go nowhere. Meanwhile, going out on your own feels terrifying because no one's shown you how to make money at it. You've got the skills companies need, but you're stuck applying instead of converting your expertise into income.Here's what I learned: I started my GenAI business in less than 24 hours and replaced my corporate income in less than a week. That timeline might not be typical, but here's what is: building your own business is often faster than landing another corporate job when you have the right framework. Most tech professionals waste months figuring this out alone. This course gives you the exact system. You'll learn how to calculate your required income, design the right business model for your expertise (freelance, consulting, fractional, or product), set up operations, develop a client acquisition strategy, and set rates. Complete the optional capstone and you'll go live with your business by the end of the course! Whether you're employed or laid off, you'll have everything you need to start generating revenue from your expertise.

Tech layoffs keep coming, and the job market is a nightmare

Apply the Financial Readiness Framework to determine your income requirements

Design your personalized solopreneur model for your tech expertise

Set up your business operations and infrastructure

Develop your client acquisition strategy and set competitive rates

A big portion of what we will be talking about is leveraging your network. So it will help to have worked a corporate job or two already.

Tech workers with a few years of experience working for a company/in corporate

Senior ICs and managers who are worried about layoffs and want to build a business that replaces their corporate salary.

Tech workers between jobs who want to replace their salary through independent work, not through another vulnerable corporate role.

Managers and ICs creating career stability who want to build a side business now that can become primary income if they get laid off.

Learn the new system for taking the future into your own hands: create a vision and develop the strategy to make that vision inevitable

Author and Advisor to F500 C-suite execs

Microsoft

Amazon

Accenture

NASA

The Wharton School

Brian Evergreen

Leading Author, Advisor, Keynote Speaker, and Podcast Host

MAR 2026 COHORT

APR 2026 COHORT

When I was Microsoft's U.S. AI Strategy Lead, it was my job to help F500 C-suite leaders create a strategy for how they would use AI. I quickly learned that there were four major gaps in most academic and on-the-job training:1. No resources for creating a vision2. The process for strategy was too convoluted3. Systems thinking was missing or too impractical4. Storytelling was seen as a nice-to-haveBeing a former internationally competitive and multi-state champion chess player, I dug into the literature on vision, strategy, systems thinking, and storytelling. I interviewed over 50 C-suite executives, thought leaders, including luminaries such as Seth Godin, Roger Martin, etc.I combined everything that could be practically applied and developed new frameworks to address key gaps to create a new system: Future Solving™Future Solving™ has since been adopted by dozens of Fortune 500 companies and thousands of leaders. Over $20B has been architected on the Future Solving™ frameworks, and this work has been featured in Forbes, Bloomberg, etc.Now I'm sharing the blueprint with you.“Future Solving will be the foundation of the next reinvention of our company.” - CLO, Fortune 10 company

Become a visionary leader

Develop the Skill of Vision

Create a Visible Strategy

Become a World-Class Systems Thinker

Master Storytelling

Build a Future Solving Capability within your organization

Apply Everything in a Real-World Capstone

The only prerequisite

Leaders ready to become visionary leaders. See what Future Solving™ can do to advance you, your team, and your organization in the era of AI

Senior managers and managers who want to level up.Learn the exact playbook used by thousands of C-suite execs and VPs at F500 companies

Entrepreneurs looking to outplay their competitors.Make sure your vision and strategy are as good as your product or service

Learn to validate, build, and launch startups, transforming ideas into real, execution-ready businesses with clarity and confidence.

Startup Mentor & Product Strategist

StratMate

Ankur Shrivastava

Startup Mentor helping founders turn ideas into real businesses

A live 5-week sprint to validate, build, and launch your startup idea.

Founders Batch | May 2026

Most startups do not fail because founders lack passion or ideas. They fail because they build without clarity, validate too late, or execute without direction. This course exists to change that.In this 5-week live cohort, you will move from idea to execution with a structured, practical approach. Instead of theory, you will work on your own startup in real time, defining a clear problem, identifying your ideal customer, and validating whether your idea actually solves something meaningful. You will then build a simple, focused business model, define your MVP, and create a go-to-market plan that gets you your first users.This is not about building a perfect product. It is about building the right product. By the end of the program, you will have clarity, confidence, and a launch-ready foundation to move forward with momentum.

Most startups fail due to poor validation. Learn to build what actually works.

A clear problem statement and defined target customer (ICP)

Validated insights from real customer conversations

A structured business model for your startup

A well-defined MVP (what to build and what not to)

A practical go-to-market plan to acquire your first users

A launch-ready startup with a clear next-step action plan

Early-Stage Founder If you have an idea but lack clarity, this course will help you validate and turn it into a real startup.

Aspiring Entrepreneur If you want to start but feel stuck, this course will guide you from idea to action with a clear path.

SME Owner / Operator If you run a business and want to test new ideas, this course helps you validate and launch efficiently.

Build clarity, confidence, and positioning to move into or grow in tech for social impact with a clear and actionable next step.

Impact Innovator & Facilitator

Anna Ackermann

Working at the intersection of digital rights, safety, and public institutions

Tech for Good & Career Strategist

Nithima Ducrocq

Entrepreneur who designs digital programs across UN, NGOs, and startups.

May Cohort

<h2>Find your place in tech for good and take your next step with clarity</h2>You don’t need to have everything figured out. But you do need direction.If you’re trying to build or pivot into a career in tech for social impact, you’ve probably felt this:<ul><li>You care about impact, but don’t know where you fit or where to start</li><li>You have experience, but struggle to position it</li><li>You’re capable, but still second-guess yourself</li><li>You want to move forward, but don’t know what step to take next</li></ul>This course is designed to help you move through that.

Boosting women's career's in impact tech

Define your direction in tech for social impact and focus your next move

Articulate your strengths clearly to position yourself in real conversations

Identify what’s holding you back and take action instead of overthinking

Choose where you fit and target the right opportunities

Build a clear next-step plan and move forward with concrete actions

You want to work in tech for social impact, but don’t know how to enter or navigate the space

You are already working in impact tech and seek changes but don’t know how

You want something more structured than self-reflection, but more thoughtful than generic career advice