The Heroic Odyssey™

A comprehensive and intense 15 to 18-week personal and professional development program which blends executive coaching with innovative technology to enhance leadership skills, emotional intelligence, and strategic thinking.

  • Clients include veterans, spouses, and caregivers

  • Clients complete personalized assessments, workshops, and hands-on exercises with their coaches and the cohort

  • Topics include:

    • Regaining your Identity

    • Purpose Statement

    • Value Proposition

    • Communication and presentation skills

    • Career Search Strategy (personal branding, skills enhancement, resumes)

  • Weekly focus with flexible scheduling and ongoing resource access via VCP Advantage, our coaching platform

  • Program ends with reflection and future planning to support personal and professional growth

By emphasizing personal development and resilience, the program seeks to enable, empower, and elevate clients, equipping them with the necessary tools and confidence to successfully navigate the challenges of post-military life and thrive in their new civilian roles.

We believe that a global marketplace which engages veterans, spouses, and caregivers as active partners, decision makers, and valued clients is stronger and more productive.

How Coaching Differs

  • Focus: Career or personal development through shared experience

  • Approach: Advisory — a more experienced person (the mentor) offers guidance, wisdom, and support

  • Relationship: Typically informal and long-term

  • Best For: Those looking for insight and direction from someone who’s “been there before”

Mentoring

Therapy    

  • Focus: Mental health, emotional healing, and resolving past trauma

  • Approach: Clinical and diagnostic — led by a licensed professional

  • Relationship: Therapist-client

  • Best For: Individuals dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, or emotional difficulties

  • Focus: Business or organizational challenges

  • Approach: Prescriptive — consultants analyze problems and deliver solutions

  • Relationship: Expert-client, often short-term and project-specific

  • Best For: Organizations or individuals who need expertise or tactical direction

Consulting

Coaching

  • Focus: Unlocking potential, goal-setting, and personal/professional growth

  • Approach: Collaborative — coaches ask powerful questions, guide reflection, and build accountability

  • Relationship: Equal partnership focused on the client’s agenda

  • Best For: Individuals ready to grow, shift, lead, or transform