Your capabilities extend far beyond your resume. Proximo reveals what you're truly capable of and provides the strategic framework to navigate your entire professional life - including multiple career transitions - with confidence.
Defining your authentic professional identity beyond limiting job titles.
Testing career hypotheses through structured exploration.
Positioning yourself strategically for the right opportunities.
Ensuring every role becomes a platform for intentional career development.
We believe that professional identity must be fluid enough to evolve with changing circumstances while maintaining core stability.
Strategic: Your skills, experiences, and way of thinking qualify you for careers you've never considered. See the full landscape of what's possible.
Clarity: We believe in making the abstract tangible, bringing structure to ambiguity, and illuminating hidden pathways forward.
Authenticity: We believe in the power of honest self-reflection, creating spaces for genuine exploration without the pressure of external performance.
Empowerment: We believe in equipping people with the tools, frameworks, and confidence to navigate change on their own terms.
Traditional tools ask 'What jobs are you qualified for?' Proximo asks:
As military veterans, we experienced the collapse of entire professional identities: not just the loss of a job, but the disintegration of a way of life, a language, and a structure for meaning. Reinvention wasn't optional; it was survival. And there was no roadmap.
That experience taught us something critical: when industries vanish or roles are erased, the real challenge isn't job search – it's identity translation. It's the terrifying work of answering: Who am I now? What am I still capable of? How do I begin again?
This is exactly the challenge millions of people will face as AI transforms the economy. Entire sectors will evaporate or morph beyond recognition. Workers who spent decades honing their craft will wake up to find the world no longer needs what they once offered. The emotional and strategic demands of navigating that loss – and rebuilding with clarity – are profound.
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Co-founder, CEO
Raised by blue collar parents who fought to pull their family into the middle class, Dan joined the military for reasons of class mobility as much as his motivation to serve. After graduating from West Point, Dan served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army, leading more than 300 combat missions in Iraq. Returning home, he faced the profound loss of a professional identity and life structure that had defined his adult life.
Dan’s journey through disorientation and reinvention led him to earn a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard and dedicate his career to building systems for others facing major life transitions. Dan went on to lead national career initiatives at Syracuse University ’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families, LinkedIn, and Shift.org, building career transition programs that served over 150,000 veterans, military spouses, and career switchers.
He is a Presidential Leadership Scholar, certified executive coach, and alum of Stanford’s Ignite program for innovation and entrepreneurship. His extensive experience navigating his own transitions and coaching others through theirs led him to architect the coaching methodology that underpins Proximo.
Kevin brings 11+ years of expertise in building and scaling AI-driven educational and career development platforms. With a foundation in military service, Kevin's journey has spanned from West Point to Stanford, where he earned his MA in Learning Design and Technology, followed by an MBA from Berkeley Haas. This unique combination of learning science, product leadership, and business acumen enables him to create intuitive, impactful solutions for complex career challenges.
Before co-founding Proximo, Kevin served as Senior Director of Product at Springboard, where he led product, design, data, and learning teams while driving AI strategy. His career path includes product roles at Education.com and Intuit, consistently focusing on products that expand access to opportunity.
Education, economic empowerment, and the future of work have always been central to Kevin's professional and personal pursuits, guiding both his career choices and volunteer activities, including teaching financial literacy classes and helping veterans apply to schools. This lifelong commitment to helping others unlock their potential drives Proximo's mission to build an AI-powered career navigation platform that evolves with users throughout their entire professional journey.
