Success Consultants (Also known as Romero Success Coaches) offer clients help in identifying and implementing strategies that can help them achieve their goals at and beyond Claremont McKenna College (CMC).
By helping other students streamline their workflow, sleep management, stress tolerance, coping skills, and healthy living, Success Consultants affect the integrated success of our peers in personal, meaningful, and quantifiable ways. Students who utilized Success Consultants showed better academic performance, awareness, and emotional skills when measured against students who did not utilize Success Consultants
Highlights
Helped CMC students identify pain points in their habits, beliefs, and strengths, chart out a way to address these issues, and then offer support in implementing these solutions
Worked with students to establish individualized success metrics, which were then used to adjust their success strategies and track progress towards their goals.
Tracked student body physical and emotional wellness using questionnaires and WHOOP fitness strap data
Challenges
As coaches, we could not do the work for our clients; We focused instead on enabling and encouraging those who came to us for help
Continuous training meant we needed to frequently update and revise our strategies
Success Stories
Assisted client in breaking her phone addiction by identifying triggers in order to address
We got access to institutional data at the end of my first year as a success consultant, which we used to steer our program offering - specifically leaning into addressing client-held self-limiting beliefs
Our team expanded program awareness by 50% year-over-year for the three years I was a success consultant
Time as a Success Consultant: September 2021 - May 2024
Location: Claremont, California