Mon Amie's Solutions™
Career coaching and future-of-work readiness for students. We help young people figure out where they are going, and prepare them not for one job, but for a lifetime of work in a changing world.
WorkReady™ is a trademarked Louisiana workforce-readiness program developed by Mon Amie’s Business and Wellness Solutions.
We bridge the gap between school preparation and workplace expectations, so students enter their first jobs with greater confidence, awareness, and practical skill.
Applications, résumés, interviews, follow-up.
Professionalism, communication, feedback, accountability.
Paychecks, taxes, workplace expectations and rights.
Reputation, advancement, networking and career mobility.
Students may know how to complete an assignment and still have no idea how to email a supervisor, read a pay stub, respond to corrective feedback, recover from a workplace mistake, or build credibility during their first 90 days. We teach the skills that often have to be learned the hard way.
Students practice the situations they are actually likely to encounter in an interview, first job, internship, or work-based learning placement.
WorkReady™ is informed by more than two decades of HR and organizational leadership experience, not generic career advice.
We integrate communication, emotional intelligence, resilience, professionalism, self-advocacy, and workplace confidence.
WorkReady Career Coaching helps students connect who they are and what they are good at to the decisions in front of them now, and to the opportunities those decisions open later. It is designed to support Louisiana career-readiness and career-coaching priorities while keeping WorkReady’s practical, workforce-centered focus.
Together, students receive both direction and preparation.
Helps students identify occupations, fields of study, and possible pathways.
Helps students determine where they are going and how to get there.
Helps students test their interests and gain real-world exposure.
Helps students develop the human and workplace skills needed to succeed once opportunity arrives.
Schools are doing more than ever to prepare students for life after graduation. Students are earning credentials, completing internships, participating in CTE pathways, building résumés, and exploring careers.
But an industry credential does not automatically teach a student how to handle a difficult supervisor, respond professionally to feedback, communicate when they are going to be late, recover from a mistake, understand the deductions on their first paycheck, or navigate their first workplace conflict.
That is the gap WorkReady™ was built to fill. WorkReady™ complements career and technical education, work-based learning, internship preparation, college and career readiness initiatives, and senior transition programming by teaching the human skills students need to succeed once they enter a workplace.
This fits Louisiana’s direction. The state’s accountability system rewards schools for graduating students ready for career, college, or service, and gives schools the same credit for preparing students for high-demand careers as for top academic honors. Jump Start already develops the workplace skills employers value; WorkReady™ strengthens the human skills that help students succeed once they are on the job, complementing those initiatives rather than competing with them.
WorkReady™ is built around the capabilities that stay valuable even as technology, job titles, and industries change. It is not preparation for one job market. It is preparation for a lifetime of work.
Communication, collaboration, emotional intelligence, conflict, feedback, and accountability.
Professionalism, interviewing, workplace expectations, supervisors, and advancement.
Career exploration, graduation pathways, Individual Graduation Plans, CTE, Industry-Based Credentials, dual enrollment, TOPS/TOPS Tech, postsecondary pathways, Louisiana workforce opportunities, internships, job shadowing, work-based learning, apprenticeships, and long-term career planning.
Paychecks, budgeting, banking, credit, benefits, taxes, and long-term financial decisions.
Responsible AI use, digital professionalism, information verification, privacy, and productivity.
Critical thinking, problem-solving, resilience, learning agility, career pivots, and transferable skills.
Most students do not learn this before they start earning. This module covers gross pay vs. net pay, reading a pay stub, taxes and withholdings, direct deposit, W-4 basics, overtime, budgeting a first paycheck, checking and savings accounts, credit and credit scores, avoiding predatory lending, employer benefits, retirement basics, and why small financial decisions early in adulthood matter.
Not a standalone “AI class,” but the judgment students need to use these tools responsibly at work: when AI is appropriate to use, how to verify AI-generated information, why blindly submitting AI output can damage credibility, how AI can support productivity, what information should never be entered into public AI tools, and why human judgment remains their responsibility.
WorkReady™ is not designed to prepare students for a single job market that may look completely different in five years. Technology will change. Job titles will change. Industries will change.
The skills required to communicate, adapt, make sound decisions, manage money, solve problems, build relationships, and take responsibility for your work will continue to matter.
We prepare young people not simply to enter the workforce, but to navigate it, grow within it, and adapt as it changes.
After participating in WorkReady™, students are better prepared to:
WorkReady™ can be delivered as a high-impact workshop, an intensive, or a multi-session academy. Content is adapted to the age, setting, and goals of the participating students.
Career exploration and employability skills can begin well before senior year. WorkReady™ is organized into four age-appropriate stages so schools can start early and build over time.
Introduces students to careers, community roles, personal interests, and strengths, and to the connection between what they learn now and what they could do in the future.
Students begin structured career exploration and start to see how middle-school choices connect to future high-school pathways.
Students connect their interests and goals to graduation pathways, academic choices, and postsecondary options, and begin career-connected experiences.
Students prepare for the transition after graduation, with the full workplace-readiness experience built in.
Understand strengths, interests, workplace expectations, and what it means to present yourself professionally.
Build the résumé, interview skills, communication habits, and follow-up practices that help students compete.
Navigate supervisors, coworkers, feedback, conflict, schedules, accountability, paychecks, and everyday workplace realities.
Build a strong reputation, recognize transferable skills, develop professional relationships, and prepare for the next opportunity.
Ideal before students begin working, graduate, or transition into college, training, military service, or full-time employment.
Strengthen the soft skills and workplace behaviors that help students succeed in internships, apprenticeships, and industry placements.
Practical preparation for students who may benefit from additional support entering or re-entering the workforce.
Prepare young employees before they report to participating employers and community worksites.
Add an employer-informed workforce-readiness curriculum to youth development, career exposure, or economic-mobility initiatives.
Employers can invest upstream by sponsoring WorkReady™ for local students and future members of the regional workforce.
Families are important partners in career development. WorkReady helps students and families understand available pathways so they can make informed decisions together.
WorkReady builds on what each student brings, including students with IEPs or 504 Plans, students with ADHD and other neurodivergent learning profiles, English learners, and students pursuing every kind of postsecondary path.
Start with one experience or build a full student cohort. Every engagement is scoped around your population, schedule, and goals.
A high-impact introduction to workplace expectations, professionalism, communication, interviewing, and what employers notice first.
A structured cohort experience that develops job-search skills, workplace EQ, professional communication, financial basics, and career-growth habits.
A concentrated training with interactive exercises, workplace scenarios, interview practice, and practical career-readiness tools.
Schools have career counselors. Teachers can pull résumé worksheets off the internet. AI can generate interview questions. WorkReady™ is different because it is taught from the other side of the hiring table.
Developed from more than two decades of experience in human resources, organizational leadership, employee relations, hiring, performance management, and workforce development, WorkReady™ teaches students what employers actually see, what managers actually complain about, why new employees actually fail, and what behaviors actually affect advancement.
Students don’t just learn what a résumé should look like. They learn how employers think.
WorkReady was developed by Amy Baker-Ogunyemi, founder of Mon Amie’s Business and Wellness Solutions and a workforce and organizational leader with more than 20 years of human resources and workforce-development experience. It is informed by direct, employer-side experience with how organizations recruit, evaluate, develop, and retain employees.
Classroom cohorts, CTE programs, grade-level groups, leadership groups, or larger student events.
WorkReady™ comes to your students, scheduled during the school day, after school, summer programming, professional-learning days, transition events, or career-readiness programming.
Mon Amie’s provides the facilitation, student materials, interactive exercises, and program structure.
Schools select priorities based on student age, program goals, internship requirements, employer partnerships, or workforce needs.
Sessions use scenarios, discussion, decision-making, practice, reflection, and real workplace situations, not lecture-only instruction.
Available for an individual classroom, a full campus, or district-wide implementation across every high school.
One classroom. One campus. An entire district.
Businesses, banks, hospitals, utilities, foundations, chambers, and community partners can sponsor WorkReady™ programming for students in a selected school, district, or community. A sponsor can help fund:
WorkReady™ sits inside Mon Amie's Leadership Lab™, grounded in decades of human resources, organizational development, education, and whole-person support. We know what organizations expect, and what young people need in order to meet those expectations with confidence.
HR & organizational leadership expertise
Cross-sector business and workforce perspective
Trauma-informed, people-centered approach
Flexible formats built for student schedules
"We are not simply preparing students to land their first job. We are preparing them to become the kind of employee, professional, and future leader who knows how to thrive once the door opens."
Your students are getting ready for what comes next. Let's make sure the workplace is part of that preparation. Schools, districts, CTE leaders, workforce organizations, and community sponsors can request a customized WorkReady™ experience.
Mon Amie's Solutions™