Life Design Foundations Portal

The Life Design Foundations portal offers you a comprehensive, self-guided approach to explore and develop essential skills for personal and career growth. This centralized hub provides access to a curated content designed to help you navigate life’s opportunities with confidence and purpose.

You can progress at your own pace, building foundational skills in reflection, goal-setting, and problem-solving, all aligned with the principles of Life Design. Whether you complete the entire track or select a handful of relevant resources, the content here will help you explore diverse career pathways, cultivate resilience, and adapt to an ever-evolving world.

Earn a Life Design Foundations Fellow badge by completing all four pillars and receive a graduation cord!

access the life Design Lab FOUNDATIONS PORTAL

Get Curious

Curiosity plays a pivotal role in designing both personal and professional lives by driving individuals to explore new interests, challenge assumptions, and embrace lifelong learning. It encourages a proactive approach to self-discovery and growth, leading to more informed and fulfilling career and life choices.

Imagine Possibilities

The imagining possible lives approach empowers students to embrace the ambiguities of our current world of work and their professional and personal futures. This method encourages reflection on past and present experiences to help students conceptualize multiple unique but interrelated life paths. By aligning their interests with academic and career pursuits, students can craft specific, actionable goals to work towards, ultimately enacting their envisioned futures.

Experience More

From career fairs to networking & mentorship events, internships to full time career roles, professional advice to graduate school options, curricular efforts, and immersive experiences our services are designed to help you clarify your aspirations, develop essential skills and build confidence in your decision making.

Craft Your Story

Share elements of your life design journey with others in ways that allow you to develop and own your personal-professional narrative and to inspire others in the process. Do this by speaking confidently about who you are, what you believe in, and what you’re doing!