Peake Fellowship Mission
The Peake Fellowship launched publicly in 2022 based on eight years of development serving local businesses across 1,000 market categories. The Fellowship partners with ecosystem leaders (industry supply chains, higher ed centers, chambers of commerce, and other business associations).
Within Peake’s mission, the Fellowship also partners with Higher ed institutions to build Applied Learning & Teaching programs for undergraduate students. The students receive microcredentialed training and serve as Community Navigators with small businesses through the Higher ed Enterprise Leadership Program (i-HELP).
Challenge
Opportunity
Measurable outcomes
Nationwide impact
“Through my experience as a Peake Pilot Program Fellow, I gained confidence in my leadership and strategic skills for face-to-face sessions with small and local business teams. The Fellowship’s systems-based training and mutual mentoring positioned me to become the Program Manager of an international value chain organization for coffee growers as soon as I finished the Fellowship.”
Tessa Tracy
Peake Pilot Program Fellow ’21
“During Lampin’s years as an applied learning partner in the Fellows Service, we’ve been able to get new customers and serve our current customers in more cybersecure, sustainable, and profitable relationships. That began with the Fellows helping us to analyze which customers and suppliers are most strategic with the help of the Peake Fellowship’s AI & Big Data-based training platform.”
Robin LeClaire
President/Board Member of Lampin Corp,
precision industrial components manufacturer;
Fellowship Applied Learning Partner since 2014
“The Peake Fellowship’s Internet-enabled, mutual mentoring approach will strengthen America’s national defense along with the health and prosperity of each local community that participates. I’ve experienced how the Peake Fellowship accelerates that higher ed progress for regional, national, and Minority Serving Institutions.”
Dr. Mohamed Eltoweissy
Professor of Computer Science at Morgan State University, longtime Chair of Computer Science at Virginia Military Institute, coordinator of DoD-funded cybersecurity defense initiatives across higher ed institutions nationally
“The Peake Fellowship grew out of the AIM1 (AI & Member 1st) reality that technology and subject matter expertise drive innovation. Maximizing innovation depends on involving supply chain members, including the smallest nth-tier suppliers.”
General Walt Kross (Ret.)
former Commander of US Transportation Command
who helped set up the Fellowship’s first Cambridge, Massachusetts Operations Center
“When I was Vice Chief of Naval Education, we recognized that our students were becoming increasingly adept online. That shift empowers educators to be ‘the guides alongside’ instead of ‘the sages on the stage’. We bring that understanding to the Peake Fellowship’s intergenerational applied learning & teaching so small and local businesses can cybersecurely reach more customers. This approach will drive a major change in the way that small & local businesses grow.”
Vice Admiral David Brewer (Ret.)
Peake Development Team Training Co-Chair,
former L.A. Unified School District Superintendent
“The Fellowship aims to make a measurable difference nationwide for small businesses through the best practices of applied learning & teaching while giving each learner the opportunity to earn certifications as microcredentials.”
John C. Whitehead
Deputy Secretary of State in the Reagan Administration responsible for Eastern Europe in the run up to the fall of the Berlin Wall, former Co-Chair of Goldman Sachs, Chair of the Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Corporation after 9/11, Chair of the New York Federal Reserve, and Chair of Harvard Board of Overseers. John mentored the pilot for the Fellowship Program based on his own applied learning & teaching as an instructor at the Navy Supply Corps School after serving at D-Day and Iwo Jima during World War II.
“Working with the Fellowship Program has been a revolutionary
experience for the Blackstone Valley Chamber. Our Fellows stimulated us to collaborate and develop partnerships that advance the region and the community and encouraged us to become an organization that truly does work every day to live our mission and not just talk about it. And because of Fellowship Founding Partner Evan Malone, we were inspired to create the Blackstone Valley Ed Hub which transformed how the whole region collaborates.”
Jeannie Hebert
Blackstone Valley Chamber of Commerce CEO
“Getting a university’s faculty to work together is a challenge. Getting higher ed institutions nationwide to work together is exponentially harder. The Fellowship aims for that scale of success because of the nationwide need to upskill the small businesses of the industrial base to benefit from AI & Big Data. That means learning from innovative role models like MIT’s Dean of Engineering Vannevar Bush who united U.S. universities during World War II… and India’s creation of the Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management after independence.”
Harvard Businesses School Dean Emeritus John H. McArthur
who served as Co-Chair of Training in piloting the Fellowship
“My vision for our community of small local businesses is that they would be better connected and have the opportunity to serve each other in a positive light…My career focus on supply chains and cybersecure collaboration came with that vision. Then the Peake Fellowship gave me cutting edge experiences that I could only get here with leaders in the field.”
Photo source: Peake Fellowship Development Team