Go Beyond Greatness, Inc.

What Go Beyond Greatness, Inc. does

Go Beyond Greatness, Inc. (GBG) is a privately held educational consultancy, established in 2014 and headquartered at 721 Broadway Suite 104, Kingston, New York. The firm designs and delivers college and career readiness programs for middle school, high school, and college-aged students in the Hudson Valley region of New York State, with explicit focus on youth from historically marginalized communities. Service delivery is grounded in experiential learning and references named educational theorists — Jeffrey Arnett's Emerging Adulthood, Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, John Dewey's Experiential Education, and Gloria Ladson-Billings's Culturally Relevant Teaching — and is administered through workshops, one-on-one life coaching, college and career exploration tours, and structured internships. Institutional customers include school districts (e.g., Kingston High School, Ellenville High School), public libraries, youth-serving community organizations, four-year and community colleges in the SUNY system, and municipal agencies.

The product portfolio comprises five core service lines: Leadership Development Training, College Preparation Workshops, Guidance for Continuous Learning (vocational training, gap-year planning), Individualized Action Plans and Life Coaching, and Workforce Development Trainings. Two internship products — Digital Media & Marketing Internship and Youth Leadership Internship — extend the catalogue into structured youth-workforce programming. GBG operates as a delivery- and curriculum-services organization rather than a technology company; the technology stack consists of a website (gobeyondgreatness.org) supporting contact intake and basic user registration/login, with no proprietary platform, API, or software product disclosed. Marketing is distributed across organic social media (TikTok, Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Snapchat, YouTube), website content, earned media in Hudson Valley outlets, and direct school and community events.

The business model is professional services: GBG funds operations through contracts and collaborative support arrangements with school districts, libraries, youth organizations, colleges/universities, and community/municipal agencies, while offering programs free to individual students. GBG holds NYS/NYC Minority and Woman-Owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) certification, an official procurement credential that supports access to public-sector RFPs and contract set-asides. The operating team comprises an Executive Director (Ashley Knox), Program Manager, Program Coordinator, GBG Educator, and Intern; governance is supported by an advisory board of educators, healthcare executives, HR leaders, and former district superintendents. By year-end 2019, GBG had cumulatively led approximately 200 workshops and served over 1,000 students, adults, and educators across six years of programming. Leadership includes Co-Founder/Chairman Azriel Alleyne, who maintains parallel roles at Freedom Solar Alliances, LLC and on regional civic committees.

Name

Go Beyond Greatness, Inc.

Legal name

Go Beyond Greatness Inc.

Website

https://gobeyondgreatness.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Go Beyond Greatness, Inc. (GBG) is a Kingston, NY educational consultancy founded in 2014 that delivers college and career readiness programs through experiential-learning workshops, coaching, and internships for middle and high school students in the Hudson Valley region of New York.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Kingston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Educational Consulting Services: GBG provides comprehensive college and career readiness programs for students and educators. Programs are delivered through workshops, one-on-one coaching, and experiential learning activities. The organization is funded through programming and collaborative support services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Go Beyond Greatness, Inc. (GBG) is an educational consultancy that provides comprehensive college and career readiness programs for students and educators in the Hudson Valley region of New York. Through experiential learning, the firm delivers leadership development training, college preparation workshops, continuous learning guidance, individualized action plans and life coaching, and workforce development trainings. Programs are offered free to students and funded through institutional contracts with school districts, libraries, youth organizations, colleges and universities, and community/municipal agencies.

Product overview

Go Beyond Greatness, Inc. is an educational consultancy providing a suite of college and career readiness programs centered around self-mastery and the Greatness Mindset. The core offerings include Leadership Development Training, College Preparation Workshops, Guidance for Continuous Learning, Individualized Action Plans and Life Coaching, and Workforce Development Trainings. The organization also offers two internship programs—Digital Media & Marketing Internship and Youth Leadership Internship—through experiential learning that develops social-emotional skills, character building, professional communication, and workforce skills for students from historically marginalized communities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Leadership Development Training
• College Preparation Workshops
• Guidance for Continuous Learning
• Individualized Action Plans and Life Coaching
• Workforce Development Trainings
• Digital Media & Marketing Internship
• Youth Leadership Internship

Quantifiable outcome

• Served 1,000+ students, adults, and educators by YE 2019
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Community Foundation of the Hudson ValleycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerExecutive Director Ashley Knox serves as Board of Trustee and Chairwoman of the Ulster Advisory Committee for the Community Foundation of the Hudson Valley, indicating a significant strategic partnership for community development and youth empowerment initiatives.
• Kingston City School DistrictcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGBG delivers programming at Kingston High School and partners with the Kingston City School District's Board of Education SRO Committee. Ashley Knox serves as SRO Committee Member for the Kingston City School District's Board of Education.
• Rotary Club of KingstonminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerExecutive Director Ashley Knox is a member of the Rotary Club of Kingston, indicating community partnership for youth development and service initiatives.
• SUNY New PaltzcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMultiple connections: Ashley Knox is an alumna of SUNY New Paltz with Master's in Humanistic and Multicultural Education; Sophie Rhind earned Master's in Social Justice Educational Studies at SUNY New Paltz; internships pipeline from university for education and human services majors.
• SUNY UlsterminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAshley Knox is an alumna of SUNY Ulster; intern Alexis Ford attends SUNY Ulster studying Secondary Education with plans to pursue Bachelor's at SUNY New Paltz.
• Bard CollegeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAdvisory Board member Azriel Alleyne is a Campus to Congress Fellow at Bard College.
• Iona UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProgram Manager Kimberly Potocki holds a Master's Degree in Public Relations with advanced certificate in NonProfit Public Relations from Iona University.
• Chamberlain UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAdvisory Board member Dr. Latoya O'Gere holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree with focus in Healthcare Systems Leadership from Chamberlain University.
• City of Kingston Climate Smart CommitteeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAdvisory Board member Azriel Alleyne formerly served as Commissioner to the City of Kingston Climate Smart Committee and adviser to the Ulster County Climate Smart Committee.
• Marist CollegeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAdvisory Board member Eva Jackson serves as director for employee and labor relations at Marist College for the past 20 years.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Year Up: National workforce development and career readiness nonprofit serving young adults from under-resourced communities with training, internships, and college credit. Comparable to GBG because both target underserved youth, focus on career readiness and professional skill-building, and contract with employers/educational institutions; however, Year Up operates nationally at much larger scale.
• KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program): National network of public charter schools focused on college preparation for students from under-resourced communities, with KIPP Through College alumni support programs. Comparable in mission (college readiness for marginalized youth) and target demographic, but operates as a K-12 school operator at national scale.
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: National mentoring nonprofit connecting youth with adult mentors for educational and career support, with strong emphasis on college and career readiness outcomes. Comparable to GBG's mentorship-led approach with school district partnerships, but operates as a nationwide affiliate model at substantially larger scale.
• Boys & Girls Clubs of America: National youth development organization offering after-school programs, leadership training, and college/career readiness across 1,100+ local clubs. Comparable to GBG in mission (youth leadership and career development) and target demographic, but operates a much broader portfolio of programs at significantly larger scale.

Direct peers

• iMentor: National college access nonprofit pairing underserved high school students with college-educated mentors to support college preparation and persistence. Directly comparable to GBG's college and career readiness mentoring model and target demographic (historically marginalized students), with overlapping service offerings around college prep and one-on-one coaching.
• Bottom Line: College access nonprofit providing one-on-one coaching to first-generation college students from low-income backgrounds through college admission and graduation. Directly comparable in mission (college access for marginalized youth), coaching-led delivery model, and contract-based institutional relationships.
• College Possible: National college access organization providing near-peer coaching for high school students from low-income backgrounds to navigate college admission and succeed in college. Directly comparable in college readiness coaching model, target demographic, and workshop-based service delivery.
• SAGA Education: National nonprofit providing high-dosage math tutoring and college access programming to students from under-resourced communities, with school district partnerships. Comparable to GBG in contracted-services delivery model with school districts, education-focused programming, and target demographic.
• Per Scholas: National nonprofit providing tuition-free technology workforce training and career development to individuals from under-resourced communities. Comparable to GBG's workforce development training component, with overlapping focus on professional skills and pathways to employment for underserved populations.
• Matriculate: National nonprofit providing virtual college advising to high-achieving, low-income high school students through near-peer mentoring. Directly comparable to GBG in mission (college access for under-resourced students), coaching-based delivery model, and focus on historically marginalized communities.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/go-beyond-greatness-inc

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles14 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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