
Peake Fellow

Mary S. Peake Fellowship Overview
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The Mary S. Peake Fellowship is a prestigious 12-month Applied Learning & Teaching experience for a select team of pioneering candidates who passionately want to serve community businesses locally and globally. Candidates may be:
- Recent Graduates
- Returning Veterans
- Military Spouses
Local businesses across the U.S. and Canada face three massive challenges: ecommerce, global competition, and overwhelming contract complexity. They need emerging leaders who can help them to overcome these challenges with new core capabilities:
- Social media-based Outreach & Engagement
- Community Commerce-based innovation of products and services
- Cloud-based Operations software
- Cybersecure grassroots use of AI & big data
The Peake Fellowship will launch nationally in 2023. Peake’s competitive selection process includes an online application, an assessment of social media best practices by local businesses, interviews, and a field-based community connection evaluation. Peake Fellows receive a baseline stipend of $30,000 with opportunities for additional service-based compensation throughout the Fellowship. Fellows also receive health and dental insurance benefits.
Upon Fellowship Completion Post-Fellowship Professional Paths our application to receive an assessment of your fit followed by a Peake interview in-person or over the web. “It was such an honor working with the Fellowship team and learning from the Fellowship team.”
Attributes of a Peake Fellow and Post-Fellowship Professional Paths
Peake looks for topflight applicants with:
You will be:
While the Post-Fellowship careers that Fellows ultimately pursue vary widely, Accepted Candidates most often see themselves on five Post-Fellowship Professional Paths:
Core Values of a Peake Fellow
I believe in being part of a next generation of high-integrity, ethical community leadership where members upskill each other to accomplish progress that would be impossible otherwise.
Business Tracks and Skill Sets from the Peake Fellowship
All the learning, teaching, and field certifications of the Fellowship build out core and specialty skill sets. During the Fellowship these skill sets help a community and its local businesses at each step of a Fellow’s uniquely designed learner pathway.
Fellowship Experiences
Colleen Farrell
Pilot Program Fellowship Support Team Lead
Colleen was selected as Support Team Lead after she completed her service as a U.S. Marine officer leading Female Engagement Teams in Afghanistan.
A Fellow’s Unique Journey: Measuring The Fellowship’s Personal & Professional Impact
Each Fellow’s unique year can be divided into four quarters of personal and professional development milestones followed by the time after completing their Fellowship. Peake refers to these phases and milestones as the Fellowship Journey.
Next Steps
Think you may be a great fit? Please click “Apply to be a Peake Fellow Here” to begin the assessment and application process. A Peake team member will be in touch with you soon.