Aspira Consulting
At Aspira, we get it because we lived it™ We are former first-generation students and professionals who have successfully navigated career challenges, blended our personal and professional identities, and today provide transformative career and leadership programs rooted in lived experience. Our clients include colleges, universities, high schools, Fortune 1000 firms, professional associations, and career development organizations.
Academic Institutions
Lived Experience-Based Career Readiness: We understand the barriers that can prevent first-generation and nontraditional students from achieving their career aspirations. Using our lived experience framework, we partner with academic institutions to strengthen and scale their career readiness services.
Corporations
Lived Experience-Based Leadership Development: Our lived experience leadership development programs empower professionals to embrace their unique journeys to navigate their careers with purpose and confidence. By turning lived experiences into powerful assets, we help participants lead with authenticity, connect meaningfully with others, and inspire through their stories.
Keynotes & Programs
Everyone has a story — our challenges, our triumphs, our purpose. Our keynotes and programs inspire you to embrace your identity, unlock the power of your lived experiences, and develop a leadership style that is authentically yours. With Aspira, you’ll gain the confidence to take bold steps, seize new opportunities, and lead with purpose.
Aspira Consulting
At Aspira, we get it because we lived it! We are former first-generation students and professionals who have successfully navigated career challenges, blended our personal and professional identities, and today provide transformative career and leadership programs rooted in lived experience. Our clients include colleges, universities, high schools, Fortune 1000 firms, professional associations, and career development organizations.
Lived Experience-Based Career Readiness for Academic Institutions: We understand the barriers that can prevent first-generation and nontraditional students from achieving their career aspirations. Using our lived experience framework, we partner with academic institutions to strengthen and scale their career readiness services.
Lived Experience-Based Leadership Development: Our lived experience leadership development programs empower professionals to embrace their unique journeys to navigate their careers with purpose and confidence. By turning lived experiences into powerful assets, we help participants lead with authenticity, connect meaningfully with others, and inspire through their stories.
Keynotes & Programs: Every one has a story — our challenges, our triumphs, our purpose. Our keynotes and programs inspire you to embrace your identity, unlock the power of your lived experiences, and develop a leadership style that is authentically yours. With Aspira, you’ll gain the confidence to take bold steps, seize new opportunities, and lead with purpose.
A Lived Experiance
Career Readiness Ecosystem
Aspira Consulting empowers students, educators, and professionals to turn lived experiences into career success. Built on Aspira’s Lived Experience Framework, our career readiness ecosystem integrates interactive career and leadership programs, professional development for educators, and Aspira Intelligence—an AI-powered career coach tool and training platform that personalizes growth and opportunity.
Who We Serve
Who We Serve
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Our Impact
Students & Professionals Trained:
Continents:
Countries
Satisfaction
Recommended Aspira
What We Offer
What We Offer
10 Ways Aspira Consulting Redefines Career Readiness
Aspira Consulting’s lived experience framework goes beyond traditional career readiness programs. We blend lived experience, self-affirmation, and an asset-based framework with tools to transform how educators and institutions help students in their career journey.
- Lived Experience, Not Generic Career Advice
- Experience-Driven Learning: We begin with self-affirmation
- Asset-Based Mindset vs. Deficit Correction: We focus on what students already bring.
- Personal Storytelling as Strategy: We train students to embrace their story with pride and confidence.
- Access in Design, Not as an Afterthought
- Multilingual Accessibility
- Human + AI Integration
- Transformative for Both Students and Educators
- Scalable, Measurable, and Relational
- From First-Gen Lens to Institutional Change
10 Ways Aspira Consulting Redefines Career Readiness
Aspira Consulting’s lived experience framework goes beyond traditional career readiness programs. We blend identity, lived experience, and community with modern tools to transform how students, educators, and institutions define career success.
- Lived Experience, Not Generic
- Experience-Driven Learning
- Asset-Based Mindset vs. Deficit Correction
- Personal Storytelling as Strategy
- Access in Design, Not as an Afterthought
- Multilingual Accessibility
- Human + AI Integration
- Transformative for Both Students and Educators
- Scalable, Measurable, and Relational
- From First-Gen Lens to Institutional Change
Our Story
We Get It Because We’ve Lived It™
Growing up, Oscar Garcia didn’t see himself as a leader.
He was shy, introverted, and learning English as a second language. At just five years old, he became his parents’ translator, navigating a world that didn’t always see or understand families like his. His parents, both with less than a middle school education, taught him resilience, humility, and the power of hard work.
As a Mexican American, Oscar often felt caught between two worlds. In the U.S., he was “too Mexican.” In Mexico, he was “too gringo.” But what once made him feel different is now his greatest strength. Today, Oscar celebrates that difference because it’s what fuels his purpose.
From humble beginnings to global impact, Oscar is an introvert turned international speaker, empowering over 65,000 students and professionals across 17 countries and five continents. His journey from first-generation student to Chief Empowerment Officer of Aspira Consulting, he embodies our mission: Embrace your story. Value your identity. Lead with authenticity.
At Aspira Consulting, we don’t just prepare you for opportunities, we empower you so opportunities come to you.
Our Story
We Get It, Because We Lived It
Growing up, Oscar Garcia didn’t see himself as a leader.
He was shy, introverted, and learning English as a second language. At just five years old, he became his parents’ translator, navigating a world that didn’t always see or understand families like his. His parents, both with less than a middle school education, taught him resilience, humility, and the power of hard work.
As a Mexican American, Oscar often felt caught between two worlds. In the U.S., he was “too Mexican.” In Mexico, he was “too gringo.” But what once made him feel different is now his greatest strength. Today, Oscar celebrates that difference because it’s what fuels his purpose.
From humble beginnings to global impact, Oscar is an introvert turned international speaker, empowering over 65,000 students and professionals across 17 countries and five continents. His journey from first-generation student to Chief Empowerment Officer of Aspira Consulting, he embodies our mission: Embrace your story. Value your identity. Lead with authenticity.
At Aspira Consulting, we don’t just prepare you for opportunities, we empower you so opportunities come to you.
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