No. One of the main reasons we created Nomad Academy was to help people to find their direction and turn it into a career opportunity. We exist to help people that don’t know how to escape their respectable, corporate careers. Often, people with existing well-formed business ideas will benefit other options instead of joining Nomad Academy.
The best way to get a feel for the people we select is to view our Alumni Page. Generally, we’re looking for people that are ready to commit to a big change in their careers. People that are willing to try new things, put themselves into uncomfortable situations, and who want to give as much to the community as they want to receive.
If you’re inspired by solving big problems, doing things that have meaning to you, or just doing work that makes you feel alive – then Nomad Academy is a great place for you.
Our applicants typically have a minimum of three years of professional experience and often come from backgrounds in Law, Management, Finance, Engineering, Marketing, HR, Creative Agencies and more.
All united by the feeling that “there’s got to be more to life than this” and a willingness to take action on it by following their own path.
The application process for each of our programs is similar and begins with a request to be invited to our programs.
This ensures that everyone who joins our community is of a high standard.
The screening process for your invite is simple. You just have to tell us why you want to join one of our programs and share your Linkedin Profile with us.
If we invite you to apply you’ll have to complete a more detailed application form so we can understand more about your motivations, aims, and current circumstances. (Virtual program applicants may be able to skip this step)
You’ll then undertake an online interview so that we can get to know you better. You’ll then either be accepted or declined for your chosen program.
If you want the same outcomes as everyone else, then you should apply to the same MBAs as everyone else. If you want different results, come to us. We actually think you’re already looking at what we do because you know you don’t want to do the same thing as everyone else.
We only focus on helping you to escape conventional careers, by finding what is meaningful to yourself – and then getting you the best tools and support to make it happen. How?
Nomad Academy isn’t for everyone and we think it’s important that we help you identify if this is the right opportunity for you.
If your primary aim is any of the following, then you should not apply to our programs if you want to:
If you’ve already identified:
Ultimately, we’re here to help people that:
Yes, each of our programs follows the same curriculum.
The way we make the programs relevant to each person is that - once you’ve defined your direction within the first 10 days of the program - we connect you with a coach that aligns with this.
Our coaches come from a range of professional and educational backgrounds and each of them has first-hand experience in at least one of these areas:
Many of them have founded multiple companies and can help you to navigate your chosen path. We’re also currently building partnerships with a number of accelerators, recruiters, and investors to help you continue your journey after the program.
You don’t have to. Our program has four main outcomes:
Founding a company is just one of the ways you can create a remarkable career.Our program and our coaches are set up to help you to achieve the outcome that moves you towards your potential.You can read more about our outcomes on this page.
We have three programs at different prices:
nonMBA: €8900 Accelerator: €2900 Virtual: €900
For the past two years, we’ve only run the nonMBA program.
More recently we’ve created the Accelerator and Virtual programs to provide the same opportunities and outcomes to even more people looking to create remarkable careers. Financial Aid is sometimes available for these two programs. Find out more information about financial aid here.
You can view a selection of our alumni’s companies on our community page.
Because our program is designed to help people to pursue what they see as their potential it means our alumni have gone on to pursue careers in a range of entrepreneurial fields including:
Our outcomes can be distilled into four areas:
Each of our alumni have gone on to achieve one of the following outcomes:
94% of our alumni are in one of these careers within 6 months of their programs ending. You can learn more about our alumni, in their own words, on our Alumni Page.
Our program is designed to overcome the most common barriers that confront highly capable professionals in conventional careers:
As well as giving you the skills, support, and mindset to escape your current career we also have partnerships that provide support once you graduate. These include:
You’ll become part of an alumni community that will provide support and opportunities for your ongoing journey. That’s currently 170 highly select professionals from over 25 countries, and growing fast, each of whom have done a program and are on the way to remarkable careers.
The alumni community includes access to team mentoring chats, P2P online events, summits around the world and our directory of remarkable people.
We’re also currently building partnerships with a number of accelerators, recruiters, and investors to support your post-program experience.
For the virtual program, first we ask for your invite request, where we review your Linkedin profile to see if you can have an interview with us.
Before the interview can be booked, we’ll ask you a couple of deeper questions to get to know you better.
The interview itself is a 20 minute online video call, where we’ll ask you screening questions and you’ll have the opportunity to ask us your questions too.
We make decisions on who to select for the programs every 15 interviews we do. We select 5 people from every 15 interviews as we’ve found this is the right balance to let enough people in, while keeping the community high quality.
We do this size because we’ve seen from running 7 programs on-site that, any bigger, and the quality of interaction tends to decline.
While the cohort size is up to 30, each of our live workshops is limited to 16 people, to ensure an intimate and highly conversational experience with our facilitators and each other.
