February 1, 2025 NYU Campus Discovery Day:
Discovery Day:
The Becoming You
Experience
What if you could figure out what to do with your life – in just one day? Welcome to Discovery Day: The Becoming You Experience, an intensive eight-hour journey of exploration and career planning, taught on campus by acclaimed NYU Stern School of Business Professor Suzy Welch. Normally only available to NYU students, this exclusive, enrollment-limited program, sponsored by the NYU Stern Initiative on Purpose and Flourishing, is designed to help you unlock the answer to “What should I do with my life?”
The Becoming You Experience
Discovery Day
9am - 5pm on February 1, 2025
The Becoming You methodology is founded on the premise that your purpose lies at the intersection of your values, your aptitudes, and the areas of economic growth that call you emotionally and intellectually. That overlap is, in Becoming You’s terminology, your “Area of Transcendence” (AOT), which Professor Welch describes as “the right-fitting, soul-filling, and empowering destination of the beautiful, messy, and precious journey of life. Your AOT, the ultimate destination on the Becoming You methodology, is where you will feel most exquisitely alive.”
To be clear, Becoming You’s Discovery Day does not promise a straight shot to your perfect job. Life does not work that way. People have real responsibilities and constraints. But the Becoming You methodology, with its proven exercises, activities, and tests, invariably yields transformative insights, and vigorously sets participants on a recharted course toward their purpose, with profound new insights and fresh, well-founded confidence. Discovery Day is your first step there.
"What Suzy has created is profound and inspiring, and honestly, she makes something very complex seem so simple if we're willing to get existential. I know so many people will benefit from this brilliant method."
"What Suzy has created is profound and inspiring, and honestly, she makes something very complex seem so simple if we're willing to get existential. I know so many people will benefit from this brilliant method."
Chrissy Rutherford
Founder & Editor
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Personal Values Excavation
9am - 12pm followed by a lunch break from 12 - 1pm
The first part of the day of Becoming You Discovery Day is spent identifying each participant’s unique core values through the use of six proprietary exercises, culminating with The Values Bridge, an assessment tool that Professor Welch developed as part of her PhD research specifically for those undertaking the Becoming You process. Participants will also be given exercises to complete prior to the Intensive, which will be explained and integrated during the day’s programming.
Whether you enter the Becoming You Intensive thinking you know your core values or not, the values excavation will expand and deepen your understanding of your deeply held beliefs, goals, and motivations. And, as importantly, the values excavation process will start to clarify the purpose-filled future you hope to build.
The personal values excavation is followed by a lunch break, from 12 - 1pm. Enjoy a meal at a restaurant near the NYU campus or find a spot in the Tisch Hall lounge to eat something you’ve brought along. Review your discoveries so far with trained Becoming You facilitators, meet fellow attendees, or just catch your breath. There’s much more to come!Part 2: Aptitudes
Aptitudes Identification
1pm - 3pm
What are you good at? No, really good at? Like, better-than-most-people good at? We can spend our whole lives not knowing the true answer to those questions, and such data is essential to finding, and living, the lives we were meant to.
Becoming You begins to pinpoint its participants’ underlying aptitudes with a series of scientifically validated tests, which are taken prior to the Discovery Day. (The costs of this testing are covered in tuition.) The goal of this portion of Discovery Day is to take the mystery out of our cognitive (intellectual) and emotional strengths, so that we can begin to identify which kinds of jobs and industries are the best match for them. Many participants find the aptitudes data surfaced by this part of the Becoming You methodology the most surprising – and impactful.Part 3: Economically Viable Interests
Industry and Megatrend Survey
3 - 4 pm
The third part of the day is designed to expose participants to often overlooked industries where opportunity abounds, and elucidate the most notable megatrends on the horizon. Even if you enter Becoming You thinking you know what kind of work you want to pursue, this portion of Discovery Day is intended to “open the aperture” on what constitutes an economically viable interest.Part 4: Area of Transcendence
Comprehensive Area of Transcendence (AOT) Workshop
4 - 5 pm
The day concludes with participants receiving their own 20-page Area of Transcendence workbook that walks users through the synthesis of their Becoming You discoveries around values, aptitudes, and interests. Many (but not all) participants emerge from this last portion of the Discovery Day with a new and refined sense of purpose.
If this last part of the class sounds intensive, it is! We are synthesizing hours of what might be called “extreme learning,” turning eurekas (and dreams) into reality. And yet, somehow it all comes together, and it works. As one participant noted after discovering her AOT in a Becoming You workshop, “I can’t believe how much we accomplished in the class. Suzy’s gift of creating intimacy and holding space for individuals is awesome. I’m definitely reeling from the class, but in such a good way! I didn’t realize how far I’ve strayed from myself, and how good it would feel to be headed in the right direction again.”
Faq
- Who is this program for? People just starting out in their careers, or mid-career professionals who are hoping to pivot?AHow about yes and yes, and everyone in between? The power of the Becoming You methodology is that it is a lifelong tool that meets you exactly where you are in your career journey.
Professor Welch has taught Becoming You to individuals from 18 to 80; the course is designed to be inclusive – and life-transforming – whether you are thisclose to your purpose, and searching for it on what feels like a distant horizon. - What can I expect to get out of the Discovery Day program?AYou will emerge from the program with a comprehensive list of your core values, new and specific insights into your unique aptitudes, and a new understanding of the wide array of economic opportunities available today. Perhaps most importantly, each participant will leave with their own personalized, customized “Area of Transcendence” workbook, which can be regarded as a roadmap to their future.
In short, you should expect to come out of the Intensive with a clearer, deeper, and more hope-provoking answer to the question, “What should I do with my life?” - How does the Intensive compare to Professor Welch’s course at NYU?AGiven the shorter time frame (Professor Welch’s course at NYU is 21 hours), the work is very accelerated. Some assignments have been eliminated from the process and much of the testing and exercises will be completed prior to the program. Finally, at NYU, Becoming You students undergo a 5-week 360 - Feedback process; those in the one-day workshop take a shorter and less complex version of the tool.
Professor Welch’s classes are typically 40 students. Each Discovery Day has up to 250 participants. - How does Discovery Day compare to Professor Welch’s Three-Day Intensive program?AThe Becoming You Three-Day Intensive has a more intimate setting, with only 55 students. Given the longer timeframe, the Three-Day Intensive also offers more group exercises and longer time spent on each exercise, in addition to extended access to Professor Welch. Also included in the Three-Day Intensive: personalized 15 minute interviews prior to the Intensive with the Becoming You team, Area of Transcendence presentations at the end of the course with individualized commentary from Professor Welch, and a cocktail party celebration hosted by Professor Welch at the end of the course.
- How much access will we have to Professor Welch?AProfessor Welch will teach the entire day-long program, but given the amount of participants and the shorter timeframe, participants will not have one-on-one time with Professor Welch.
- What is included in the cost of the program?AThe $900 cost includes instruction, as well as all learning materials and tests. It does not include meals.
- Where is the program taking place?AOn the NYU campus.
- Do you recommend taking the class with a friend or family member?ABy all means, if this makes sense for you! That said, people tend to connect quickly and naturally during the Becoming You process, so you likely feel a sense of immediate community.
- What should I do if I have other questions?ABring ‘em! Please contact us at hello@suzywelch.com.
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I wanted to express my sincere gratitude for the insightful and transformative experiences I've gained through Becoming You. The guidance has been invaluable, and the knowledge and self-awareness I've acquired has changed my life for the better.
I wanted to express my sincere gratitude for the insightful and transformative experiences I've gained through Becoming You. The guidance has been invaluable, and the knowledge and self-awareness I've acquired has changed my life for the better.
Jacob
Financial Executive
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