The NFL’s greatest insight was not discovering talent in overlooked communities. It was building world-class development infrastructure around that talent. InnoPower applies that same model across every industry and every continent — scouting invisible talent, building the preparation system, and connecting it to opportunity. High School to the Pros, FastTrack Virtual, Diaspora Talent Online, Tubman University, and Itana are not five separate tracks. They are one pipeline.
PROGRAM 1: High School to the Pros
Entrepreneurship Starts in the Classroom
High School to the Pros embeds entrepreneurship education directly into the school day at Indianapolis high schools. Not as an elective. Not as an after-school add-on. Inside the classroom, during the school day, it reaches every student regardless of whether they know they want to be an entrepreneur.
Students develop an entrepreneurial mindset, build AI digital competency, and earn college credits while they are still in high school—saving families thousands of dollars and creating a direct pathway from graduation to career or further education. Year 2 expanded to 10 schools and 425+ students. The program is built on a partnership with Ivy Tech Community College for dual credit delivery.
420
+
Students enrolled (Year 2)
10
Schools in Marion County
30
College credits earned
$
3000
Saved per student
PROGRAM 2: FastTrack Virtual
Trained Talent. Global Connections. Remote Ready.
FastTrack Virtual is InnoPower’s virtual talent delivery and international placement program, connecting trained professionals in the U.S. and Africa with minority-owned and diaspora-led businesses seeking skilled remote support.
For businesses, FastTrack provides access to pre-vetted, AI-trained talent at a fraction of the cost of traditional hiring. For professionals in Africa, it opens pathways to global income while they remain at home—building local wealth instead of exporting talent. This is the FastTrack operating thesis: work globally, live locally, invest here.
PROGRAM 3: Diaspora Talent Online + UNILAG Partnership
Building the Bridge Between Nigerian Talent and Global Opportunity
Nigeria produces 600,000 university graduates every year. Lagos State alone has 13 million young people — 50% of its population. Yet only 12% of graduates possess the digital skills relevant to high-growth sectors. And 35% of Nigerians aged 15–34 are unemployed, with an additional 28% underemployed.
The opportunity is not a charity project. It is an economic arbitrage: Nigerian graduates with AI skills and international business training can serve U.S. and global clients at a fraction of the cost of local hires—while earning income that is 200% higher than local Nigerian wages.
InnoPower’s partnership with the University of Lagos ARUA Centre of Excellence for Unemployment and Skills Development formalized this pipeline. Through a signed MOU, UNILAG students participate in a Dual-Pathway Program: a Reverse VC Accelerator track with pitch competitions and entrepreneurship training, and an International Digital Workforce Development track providing paid internships with U.S. and global businesses. Pitch competition prizes total $5,850 annually. InnoPower provides all training, platform access, and international business connections.
600
K
Annual Nigerian university graduates
13
M
Lagos youth population
70
%
Target placement rate in global remote roles
200
%
Income increase vs. local Nigerian wages
PROGRAM 4: Tubman University — AI Literacy in Liberia
Building Africa’s First AI-Literate Graduating Class.
William V.S. Tubman University in Liberia is the country’s only public university. InnoPower’s partnership with Tubman created something that had never existed before: the first cohort of AI-literate graduates in Liberia’s history.
Liberia has a 46.1% youth population aged 15–29. GDP growth is projected at 5.2–6.2%. The opportunity is real. The technology window is open. Unlike every previous wave of transformative technology — personal computing, the internet, mobile — AI is arriving in Liberia at the same time it is arriving everywhere else. For the first time, African students are not years behind. They are present.
The InnoPower-Tubman program trained faculty as certified master trainers, integrated AI literacy into existing courses across disciplines, and launched an entrepreneurship accelerator for student ventures.
PROGRAM 5: Itana — Ethical Talent Marketplace
Where Prepared Talent Meets Global Opportunity
Itana (Talent City) is InnoPower’s ecosystem partner for ethical talent marketplace infrastructure in Nigeria. Once InnoPower’s programs produce trained, work-ready professionals—through UNILAG, FastTrack Virtual, and the Diaspora Talent pipeline—Itana provides the verified marketplace infrastructure that connects that talent to vetted global employers.
This is ecosystem thinking applied to talent: InnoPower prepares. Itana connects. Diaspora Talent Online places. The system works because each component is built to hand off to the next one.
