Welcome to Chocolate Milk Diplomacy
A Social Entrepreneurship Helping Craft Career Narratives One Story At A Time
Welcome to Chocolate milk Diplomacy
What kind of storyteller are you?
Untapped Storyteller
Potential Partner
Impact Contributor
prospective Team Member
What kind of
storyteller
are you?
Untapped Storyteller
Potential Partner
Impact Contributor
Prospective Team Member
Our services
career navigation
values + Skill Mapping
Résumé Creation + Review
Résumé + Portfolio Design Review
Are you a graphic designer, freelance artist, or another creative? Let CMD help you create a visual story that meets your future clients where they are. We’ll audit your personal brand and implement thoughtful design systems to ensure your résumé and portfolio tell your best story.
Cover Letter Creation + Editing
Cover letters map your experience to an organization’s values and role. CMD will help you understand, create, and edit a cover letter that reflects your story! Start on your own by downloading our self-led handout!
Interview Preparation + practice
Have an interview coming up? Need help transforming your experiences into powerful stories? Build upon your skills and practice for interviews with CMD or do it yourself with our mock interview packet!
Career Transition + Research Support
Have you been contemplating a major career change? We’ll help you weigh your options, build realistic timelines, and articulate your career considerations. Let us support you on your career transition or download our self-led packet.
Community EngagementS
Workshop Creation
Resource Creation
Our storytelling resources have helped hundreds of individuals find clarity in an increasingly complex career landscape. Know of a resource your team, organization, or community desperately needs? Let CMD create it for you utilizing our storytelling frameworks and in-house designers. Check out our most popular self-led packets to get a sense of what we could create for you!
Organization Consulting
Does your organization need storytelling help? Whether creating a common language, crafting a strategic plan, or supporting a business pitch – CMD’s storytelling framework can help.
Outplacement Services
Not every business idea succeeds and some stories don’t have happy endings. If your organization is downsizing, needs additional flexibility with employee transitions, or wants to support seasonal/contracted staff, CMD can help. We’ll provide résumé reviews, LinkedIn revamps, interview support, and job search strategies through 1-on-1 coaching and group workshops.
Facilitator Training
Does your organization help job seekers or career changers? Learn from CMDs storytelling frameworks, methodologies, & resources. Our facilitator training will help you level up your volunteers, team members, or staff.
Community Conversations
Today’s political and divisive climate rarely creates the needed space for conversations. Let CMD facilitate those tough conversations and help your organization or community decompress, reset, and find alignment. Common conversation topics include #BlackLivesMatter, social justice, and allyship.
Our services
career navigation
Values + Skill Mapping
Align your values, understand your strengths, and map these to potential careers. Map your skills with CMD or do it yourself with our skill mapping activities!
Résumé Creation + Review
Your résumé is an articulation of your story. Need help with creating, formatting, revising, or word-smithing your résumé? Get started on your own by downloading our self-led packets!
Résumé + Portfolio Design Review
Are you a graphic designer, freelance artist, or another creative? Let CMD help you create a visual story that meets your future clients where they are. We’ll audit your personal brand and implement thoughtful design systems to ensure your résumé and portfolio tell your best story.
Cover Letter Creation + Editing
Cover letters map your experience to an organization’s values and role. CMD will help you understand, create, and edit a cover letter that reflects your story! Start on your own by downloading our self-led handout!
Interview Preparation + practice
Have an interview coming up? Need help transforming your experiences into powerful stories? Build upon your skills and practice for interviews with CMD or do it yourself with our mock interview packet!
Career Transition + Research Support
Have you been contemplating a major career change? We’ll help you weigh your options, build realistic timelines, and articulate your career considerations. Let us support you on your career transition or download our self-led packet.
Community EngagementS
Workshop Creation
Resource Creation
Our storytelling resources have helped hundreds of individuals find clarity in an increasingly complex career landscape. Know of a resource your team, organization, or community desperately needs? Let CMD create it for you utilizing our storytelling frameworks and in-house designers. Check out our most popular self-led packets to get a sense of what we could create for you!
Organization Consulting
Outplacement Services
Facilitator Training
Does your organization help job seekers or career changers? Learn from CMDs storytelling frameworks, methodologies, & resources. Our facilitator training will help you level up your volunteers, team members, or staff.
Community Conversations
CMD Through the Years
january
2018
CMD starts offering career coaching, resume writing, interview preparation services under a new brand.
March
2018
CMD's first event with the
National Society of Black Engineers
October
2019
CMD unveils its first self-led
packets at PSU SHPE Bomba Blast
March
2020
CMD pivots to a digital model in response
to the COVID-19 global pandemic
May
2020
CMD unveils its first website and brands itself as a social entrepreneurship
June
2020
CMD offers internships to create employment opportunities during the pandemic
October
2020
CMD joins the Hillsboro Black
Business Advisory Council
December
2020
CMD meets milestone of helping
1000 storytellers during the pandemic
January
2021
CMD incorporates as an LLC
March
2021
CMD expands and builds
out a marketing team
CMD Through
the Years
january
2018
CMD starts offering career coaching, résumé writing, interview preparation services under a new brand
March
2018
CMD's first event with the
National Society of Black Engineers
October
2019
CMD unveils its first self-led
packets at PSU SHPE Bomba Blast
March
2020
CMD pivots to a digital model in response
to the COVID-19 global pandemic
May
2020
CMD unveils its first website and brands
itself as a social entrepreneurship
June
2020
CMD offers internships to create employment opportunities during the pandemic
October
2020
CMD joins the Hillsboro Black
Business Advisory Council
December
2020
CMD meets milestone of helping
1000 storytellers during the pandemic
January
2021
CMD incorporates as an LLC
March
2021
CMD expands and builds
out a marketing team
CMD By the Numbers
STORIES Crafted & Supported
Stories supported during covid
%
of services to communities in need
%
of SERVICES DELIVERED for free
RÉsumÉ Sessions
1-on-1 Sessions
EVENTS / WORKSHOPS
three
YEARS WORTH OF CHOCOLATE MILK
CMD By the Numbers
STORIES Crafted & Supported
STORIES supported during covid
%
Services to communities in need
%
PRO BONO SERVICES DELIVERED
RÉsumÉ Sessions
1-on-1 Sessions
EVENTS / WORKSHOPS
3
YEARS WORTH OF CHOCOLATE MILK
impact stories
Ruiqi L.
"CMD helped me through my grad school application in a tight deadline and successfully sent me into my dream school."
Marissa B.
"CMD helped me relate my past experiences in a previous industry to skills in my current field. I did well in my interview and started a new adventure!"
Yamini N.
"CMD gave me thoughtful and concise guidance on career development in a way I had not received before."
Saujal G.
"CMD provided blunt, to-the-point answers that helped me really understand what to focus on; They explain from a “real-life” lens."
Sameet R.
"CMD helped to refine my résumé! It was way easy to connect and work towards my goals because of team CMD's expertise."
Chinaza O.
"CMD helped get me into my Ph.D. program! My experience was very thorough and personal; CMD was invested in my success and really put in the work to see me through the whole process."
Nicolas D.
"CMD helped me understand the interview process better, to be able to communicate my ideas in the best way as possible, and make an impact."
Lauren B.
"CMD helped me become a full-time engineer at a major aerospace company. Now, CMD inspires me to give back to the underserved in my community."
Ruiqi L.
"CMD helped me through my grad school application in a tight deadline and successfully sent me into my dream school."
Marissa B.
"CMD helped me relate my past experiences in a previous industry to skills in my current field. I did well in my interview and started a new adventure!"
Yamini N.
"CMD gave me thoughtful and concise guidance on career development in a way I had not received before."
Saujal G.
"CMD provided blunt, to-the-point answers that helped me really understand what to focus on; They explain from a “real-life” lens."
Sameet R.
"CMD helped to refine my résumé! It was way easy to connect and work towards my goals because of team CMD's expertise."
Chinaza O.
"CMD helped get me into my Ph.D. program! My experience was very thorough and personal; CMD was invested in my success and really put in the work to see me through the whole process."
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