Certificate Courses
Business and Financial Security
At The Pioneer Fund, our brilliant and successful Business Coach provides a course emphasizing the power of money and action. He encourages students to start businesses if they wish, as a means to break free from debt and lack of opportunity. He also teaches how to be better employees and employers. Taking this class and reading the supplemental materials (found below) will change each student's perspective and equip them with the tools to transform their lives and futures.
Course Materials
Linked below are the materials and resources presented in the Business and Financial Security course for your benefit and learning.
Ethical Leadership
Our amazing founder has taught several rounds of leadership classes to students who want to grow their abilities, broaden their vision, and become better leaders.
This is not a course about manipulating people or learning how to get others to do what you want. It is about learning to lead in a way that helps everyone do better. We believe that when leaders think about the needs of those they lead and genuinely want to help others succeed, they can build stronger companies, families, communities, and institutions while creating environments where people can grow, contribute and reach their best potential.
Students participate actively in the classes and complete some reading and homework along the way. The course is designed to get them thinking about their own leadership and the kind of influence they want to have.
Students who complete the three classes receive a certificate.
Capacity
This course teaches students that no matter where they are or what their circumstances are, they can increase their capacity and do more than they may think possible.
Mark makes this idea real through fun, hands on demonstrations, including breath holding and pushups, that get the students involved and show them what happens when they push beyond what they thought they could do.
Children, university students, and adults alike have enjoyed this course. It is empowering and gives people a new way of seeing themselves, their abilities, and the world around them.
Health and Fitness
Mark’s lifelong interest in taking care of his body and making good daily choices has shaped this practical and encouraging health and fitness class.
The class helps students look at their daily choices with a long term view. A little more walking, a few squats, an extra fruit or vegetable, or a little less oil may not seem like much today, but those small choices add up over the years. Students are encouraged to imagine that every choice they make today is helping shape the body and life they will have in their 80s.
The goal isn’t perfection or even strict habit making. It is learning to make small, better choices and then make them again tomorrow. And if you miss a day, that’s okay. Just start again the next day. Small choices, made over and over, can make a big difference.