Partnerships

Let’s create solutions together

The benefits of partnership

Closing the leadership equity gap in today’s workforce requires innovative research fed by real-world insights. Join a solutions-oriented team experienced at convening the best of those two worlds in ways that benefit your organization and build more equitable futures for all.

Co-develop new leadership programs

We create and lead multigenerational programs that empower leaders throughout their career journey.

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Accelerate high-impact research

Collaborate with our faculty to advance research that helps people to drive gender equity and racial justice.

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Create impactful
mentorship

Help identify, test, and shape new models for mentorship and talent development that cut through some of the systemic leadership equity barriers businesses and employees face.

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Access expertise and insights

Participate in panels and networking events that connect you to top experts in the field of leadership and equity.

Case spotlights

Northeastern’s partnership model in action

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SPOTLIGHT 1

Providing talent resources

For more than a century, Northeastern has partnered with employers through its signature co-op program, which places our talented, driven students in six-month positions with partner companies. Northeastern has more than 3,500 co-op employer partners and placed 13,346 students in 2023.

In the San Francisco Bay Area alone, Northeastern has worked with more than 255 organizations—including companies like Meta, PayPal, and Toast—providing more than 1,400 co-op placements in areas like writing code, UX design, and engineering. Through partnerships like these, Northeastern has developed an agile approach to understanding and aligning with partners around talent needs and goals and developing solutions that work for all.

SPOTLIGHT 2

Co-developed programming

Our approach to co-creating multigenerational leadership programs at the institute is modeled after how Northeastern tailors programs to meet specific business goals. At Amazon Web Services Northeastern worked in lockstep with their team to build a co-op pipeline for students enrolled in our Align computer sciences graduate program, designed to prepare college graduates with no prior computer science background to enter the tech workforce. The partnership gave AWS access to a unique stream of diverse computer science talent—a priority for the organization.  

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SPOTLIGHT 3

Accelerating research with impact

Northeastern’s research partnerships focus on applying science and technology to accelerate real-world solutions. For example, faculty from our Portland, Maine, campus—with expertise in computational medicine, AI, and human-data interaction—have teamed up with MaineHealth, the state’s largest healthcare system, to uncover in real time patterns in patient data that could alert caretakers to complications and prevent adverse cardiac events. The collaboration is speeding the advances in science, while benefitting patients along the way.

Learn more about partnership opportunities