faculty development accelerator ยท fall cohort
You didn't sacrifice all of this to feel this stuck and exhausted.
A six-week program for early-career faculty who feel behind on the work they love, built by a researcher who came through the same system and built the thing she needed and couldn't find.
In six weeks, go from overwhelmed and overextended to running an aligned and fulfilling research career with support and sustainable productivity strategies - a publication pipeline, a funding plan, the right mentors and collaborators, a research team you actually lead, and a profitable national reputation strategy.
what actually changes
Every week moves you one step along this line.
the actual choice in front of you
You can keep figuring this out alone, or you can get it right the first time.
this is for you if
You have the talent and the ideas. What's missing is the system.
- You're a tenure-track or early-career researcher at an R1 or R2 institution, academic medical center, or research-intensive department.
- You have strong ideas but no reliable supports or systems to keep you accountable. Publishing and funding feels like a scramble instead of a plan.
- You say yes to too much because you don't have a strategic filter for what actually moves your career or you simply don't know how or when to say no.
- You're visible enough to be promising, but not yet known for a clear scholarly and monetizable lane.
- You want to succeed without sacrificing your health, your family, or other parts of your life outside of work.
the ascend framework
Six parts. One system for the career you actually building.
Alignment
Clarify the academic career you're building and diagnose what's actually misaligned right now, before anything else.
Ideal CV + Career DiagnosticStructure & Systems
Build the systems that move your publishing and funding forward, so your research keeps moving without panic or guilt.
Publication + Funding PipelineCommunity & Collaborations
Map the collaborators, mentors, and sponsors who can help move your work forward, so you stop carrying it all alone.
Strategic Collaboration MapExpansive Visibility
Decide what you want to be known for and build a reputation strategy that makes your work easy to find, cite, and fund.
National Reputation StrategyNotable Leadership
Build the leadership skills to run your team and collaborators without becoming the bottleneck on every single task.
Research Team Operating PlanDeliberate Execution
Turn everything you've built into a real 30/60/90-day plan, with decision rules for what to say yes, no, or not yet to.
90-Day Action Plansix weeks
What each week actually covers.
Diagnose where you actually stand, reconnect with the career you set out to build, and name what's misaligned in your goals, time, or commitments.
Set up a publication pipeline, a funding pipeline, and a 30 to 60 day plan for the one manuscript or grant you'll move first.
Map your collaborators, mentors, and sponsors, then draft and send real outreach instead of hoping the right people notice you.
Audit your current or future team, clarify roles and expectations, and put one delegation system in place immediately.
Audit your online presence, decide what you want to be known for, and revise your bio and talk topics to match.
Integrate everything into a 30/60/90-day plan with decision rules, accountability rhythms, and your goals for the in-person Summit.
the fall cohort
Everything included, and what it costs.
- 6 pre-recorded modules with homework designed to generate results quickly
- 6 live group coaching and mastermind sessions with personalized feedback from Dr. Abrams or other accomplished researchers
- Full resource and activity library: the Ideal CV exercise, SWOT analysis, strategic planning tools, and project management frameworks
- Weekly guidance emails from Dr. Abrams
- Lifetime access to all curriculum
- A ticket to the in-person Academic CEO Summit next April (travel and hotel not included)
- Summit in a Box for anyone who can't travel to the in-person Academic CEO Summit: all Summit resources plus a 90-minute virtual debrief with Dr. Abrams
- The expanded PROMPTED AI library,
- An itemized invoice, available on request, for institutional buyers
Includes your Academic CEO Summit ticket, valued at $997
Enroll in the Fall CohortMost participants (about 90%) pay through startup funds, grant funds, or department professional development budgets, not out of pocket. Ask for an invoice and a short justification email for your chair, we'll send both.
This cohort holds 30 seats. Registrations are reviewed to keep the cohort at a size where live coaching can be beneficial for all participants.
why Dr. Jasmine Abrams is the one teaching this
She lived the exact problem other faculty are living now.
There was a season where Jasmine couldn't tell you the last time she'd made real progress on her own research. Teaching had deadlines. Service had deadlines. The work she'd trained years to do, the thing she actually cared about, was the one thing with no deadline at all. So it lost, every single week.
That wasn't a discipline problem. It was a missing system, the one nobody had ever handed her for the career she actually wanted. So she built it, out of what she needed and couldn't find anywhere else, and has run it with faculty for years since.
Health psychologist. Published researcher. Came through the same R1 and R2 institutions her participants are in now.
before you decide
Questions We Hear Most
That's the exact problem it solves. The system is what gives the time back.
Most researchers pay through professional development or grant funds, not out of pocket. We give you the invoice and a justification letter.
Yes, for drafting and organizing your own work. You never hand it your judgment, and we draw the exact line inside the program.
It's about how you run the career, not what you study. It works across fields, from public health to the social sciences and beyond.
Free is scattered. This is the system, in order, with a cohort and real deadlines.
It's six weeks of live structure built for busy faculty. The pace assumes your schedule.
Jasmine is a researcher who built this from inside academia. No countdowns, no hype, just the system she needed.
Jasmine came through the same system and built the thing she wishes someone had handed her.
fall cohort begins september 14
You were just never handed a system. Now you have one.
30 seats, live coaching, and a cohort of faculty in the same season you're in.
Enroll in the Fall Cohort