Black men are bowing.
Naked in that grass
Digging with their fingers.
I am one of them:
Those mountains should be ours.
-- Golgotha is a Mountain by Arna Bontemps
Executive Summary
Moving Mountains is an accelerator for Black college men to equip them for personal and professional alignment in Corporate America’s Fortune 500 companies. We create career access and deepen economic opportunity for Black men through three strategic pillars: fee-for-service products, direct student services, and financial support. Our philanthropic arm, the Scotti Scholarship Foundation, is a 501(c)(3) dedicated to influencing the journeys of Black students in higher education through financial assistance, mentorship, and community; to date, we’ve awarded $25K to pre-college and college students. We want to become the premier developer of Black male talent to Corporate America’s Fortune 500 through asset-oriented cultural wealth development.
About Us
We accelerate Black college men’s self-efficacy through professional experience, job shadowing, mentorship, and socio-emotional support. Our work with participants begins in their second year and is continuous through the end of their third year in Corporate America. Our approach is a 10-week, entirely virtual, paid Bootcamp curriculum emphasizing agency and choice, equity audits and accountability measures with partner organizations, and scholarship support to eliminate college debt and engender agency in post-grad job opportunities.
Our approach and curriculum are backed by robust research on cultural wealth, racial identity, Black masculinity formation, and positive intelligence theories. Our students’ exploration of these bodies of work serves as the foundation of career development, unearthing the opportunity for Black men to intentionally design their goals, growth areas, and trajectory within Corporate America. Our learning modules also expose students to optimal performance topics, such as financial management, health and wellness, and effective communication. Our curriculum resituates the goal post for Black men as personal and professional alignment.
Our Competitive Advantage
Asset-oriented, culturally relevant, career-readiness training for Black men rooted in cultural wealth development. Focused on one specific skill gap, teaching soft skills, education, and providing a chance for students to network and grow with other participants.
Wraparound support services for participants after starting full-time employment to help with navigating the corporate landscape, including coaching, therapy, mentorship, and career/continuing development workshops.
Pipeline of Black male talent that is self-aware, goal-oriented, academically-prepared, has corporate internship experiences and desires to grow within the organization to companies.
Curriculum backed by extensive research on Black men and masculinity; internship matching rooted in proven talent sourcing models.
Clear outcomes and specific goals/objectives both for participants and partner companies.
Outcomes
Prepare current and future Black male leaders to bring their best selves to the Fortune 500, promoting retention, career advancement, and peer mentorship.
Help college students matriculate through their four-year degrees and graduate with minimized debt.
Help organizations to create inclusive environments where Black men, women, and people can succeed
Over time, we will:
Increase the number of Black men in the Fortune 500.
Increase the number of Black men at the P&L+ level in the Fortune 500.
Shift the demographic and cultural structure of partner organizations towards equity.
Create and share a proven model and intervention for asset-oriented, culturally-sustainable career-readiness training for Black men.
Victor Anthony Scotti, Jr. is the Founder and Chief Inspiration Officer of Moving Mountains, LLC. He has over a decade of global expertise in crafting community-specific strategies that integrate employee experience and belonging with business needs. Victor’s niche is in creating courageous spaces in the workplace so employees feel comfortable, supported, and encouraged to be as bold, brave, and authentic as they wish in bringing their best selves to the workplace. Additionally, Victor is a Black student advocate, talent developer, entrepreneur, and Global Emerging Talent Program Manager at Netflix.
Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, Victor graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Sociology, Urban Education, and Africana Studies and holds a certification in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from Loyola University Chicago’s Baumhart Center for Social Enterprise & Responsibility. Victor is a proud financially-active life member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Raymond Pace Alexander Scholarship Foundation, Inc. through his chapter of initiation, Psi.
Victor is an avid reader, writer, traveler, and Black children’s book collector. He regularly moderates and speaks on panels and webinars, and his writing coalesces around workplace inclusion and the Black male experience in The Black in HR Magazine, Huffington Post, Jopwell’s The Well, Abernathy, and Mused. He is most passionate about helping Black men and boys bolster their agency and self-efficacy in the workplace.