I want my lived experience to be seen
Share the defining moments and abilities conventional hiring has missed.
Florida’s inaugural Lived Experience Career Expo
Be Valued for Who You Are, Not What You Know
The People Florida Needs
May Already Be Here.
January 15–16, 2027 · Friday evening + full Saturday · South Florida
Florida had 427,000 open jobs in December 2025. The people who can fill them may already be here—carrying capabilities no résumé records.
We each walk through the world carrying stories the systems around us do not understand. We learn to wear armor because the defining moments that shaped us rarely fit inside an application or interview. But inside that messiness, we build hidden abilities—how we solve problems, hold steady, earn trust, and move through the world. At the Lived Experience Career Expo, you can drop your armor, share those moments, and let those abilities come to light.
Employers will name where those abilities are exactly what they need. Together, we will help people get seen—and help the systems around them become ready to see differently.
Why start in Florida? Because this state was built by people starting over—and its hiring systems still cannot see most of what those people can do.
January 15–16, 2027Friday evening, then the full Saturday · South Florida
This is not a conventional conference. Participants will leave with frameworks, maps, and potential shared work—not merely notes from presentations.
Three ways in
Choose How You Want to Enter the Room
I want to meet overlooked talent
Meet people whose judgment and potential do not fit neatly on a résumé.
I want to help build or study a better system
Join schools, employers, researchers, workforce organizations, and civic leaders working to redesign how capability is recognized.
Built through real work
This initiative grows from eight years of work with South Florida students, tutors, schools, districts, and frontline organizations.
Schools and districts
Real-world student-support implementation through Jump Start Tutoring.
Judgment intelligence
Research, assessment, and outcome analysis through Vero Learning.
South Florida
Relationships spanning education, workforce development, and frontline employment.
Why this starts in Florida
The Uncomfortable Truth in Florida
Florida runs on people its systems cannot read. The newcomer who managed teams for fifteen years and is asked to start at the bottom. The longtime Floridian whose judgment is trusted on every shift and appears nowhere on paper. The military spouse starting over. The kid who learned business at the family register.
They are not the exception here—they are the workforce. This state was built through arrival, reinvention, rebuilding, and starting again. Yet our schools, employers, and workforce systems still measure people by paperwork that records almost none of it.
Florida's economy depends on capability its institutions were never designed to see. That problem is specific, local, and solvable—which is why the work begins here.
People here are already capable
Newcomers restarting careers, longtime residents whose experience outruns their résumés, career changers with no credential for what they already know—Florida is full of people whose capability exists long before any system records it.
The frontline is the economy
Hospitality, healthcare, logistics, construction, retail, and education depend on judgment that no transcript or résumé captures, in a labor market that is always hiring and always searching.
Institutions here are close enough to talk
Districts, colleges, employers, and workforce organizations in South Florida serve overlapping populations in a compact region. The handoffs between them are short enough to redesign.
Ambition built this region
Miami was built by people who risked everything to begin again—and by the capital and companies that followed them. Yet the same judgment that built fortunes here goes unrecognized the moment it lacks the right paperwork.
The measurement gap
Our systems record placement—whether someone received a paycheck within ninety days. They rarely measure whether that person stayed, performed, advanced, or led.
Placement is not the finish line. Whether people stay, grow, and lead is a capability question—and it is the question this initiative exists to answer.
The point of truth
The Jobs Are Open. The People Are Here. The Match Is Not Being Made.
A shortage is temporary. This is not a shortage. Florida has held hundreds of thousands of open roles month after month while capable adults stand outside the labor market entirely. The two do not move toward each other, because the instruments used to read people cannot see what those people carry.
427,000
job openings in Florida in December 2025.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, State Job Openings and Labor Turnover, December 2025
Month after month
Florida carried hundreds of thousands of open roles throughout 2025. This is not a seasonal spike. It is a standing gap.
The people who can close an enduring gap are rarely the people the system was built to read. They arrived with a career already behind them, learned under pressure rather than in a classroom, or hold a strongest qualification that has never appeared on a document. Lived experience is not a consolation category. In a market this tight, it is the available supply.
What is at stake
A Growth State Cannot Run on Credentials Alone
Ask anyone who has run a classroom, a restaurant, a crew, or a care team what separates the people who stay and thrive: they show up, they keep their word, they hold steady under pressure, they work well with people. None of it appears on a transcript. All of it is built by lived experience.
That is the working question of this gathering: if the qualities that most predict whether someone stays and performs are the ones no institution records, can we build an honest way to see them—and would employers hire differently if we did?
The experience at the center
The Lived Experience Floor
Drop your armor. Share the defining moments that built how you walk through the world. Let employers recognize where those moments are exactly what they need.
What happens to me?
You tell the story behind an ability no résumé has captured.
How will I be seen?
Employers listen for judgment, steadiness, trust, and the qualities their strongest people carry.
Who might I meet?
People seeking opportunity meet employers and builders prepared to recognize more than credentials.
This is not a career fair built around polished pitches and stacks of résumés. It is a room where people name what life taught them, employers name what their work truly requires, and both sides can recognize a match differently.
The uncomfortable truth
We See the Same Person in Fragments
“One human being. Seen by multiple institutions. Partially measured by all of them. Fully understood by none.”
Student01
School
Records
Grades, attendance, assessments
May miss
Recovery, curiosity, adaptability, trust-building
College Learner02
College
Records
Credits, credentials, completion
May miss
Agency, applied judgment, problem-solving under uncertainty
Job Candidate03
Hiring
Records
Résumé, interview, prior titles
May miss
Transferable decisions and capability built outside conventional work
Frontline Worker04
Frontline Work
Records
Productivity, compliance, customer or student outcomes
May miss
What the person noticed, prioritized, protected, and adapted
Emerging Leader05
Leadership
Records
Promotions, targets, team results
May miss
How judgment developed and whether it transfers to others
Where does the signal disappear as a person moves from one institution to the next?
What we are building
A Florida Where Capability Can Travel
Our vision is to make Florida the first place where human capability is identified early, developed intentionally, connected to opportunity, and validated through real outcomes.
The initiative will bring together the institutions that educate people, employ them, study them, and support their movement into opportunity.
This work is launching first in South Florida because the relationships, operating environments, and early evidence already exist here.
Identify
Recognize capability that conventional proxies miss.
Develop
Help people strengthen judgment through experience, reflection, and feedback.
Connect
Carry meaningful capability signals into education and employment opportunities.
Validate
Test those signals against student, workforce, and organizational outcomes.
The larger work
This Begins With an Expo. It Does Not End There.
We’re starting with a career expo in South Florida. But the work is bigger than one room.
The Florida Human Capability Initiative is our effort to build a shared way for schools, colleges, employers, workforce organizations, and policymakers to recognize the capabilities people develop through what they have lived—and carry those capabilities into real opportunity.
We are not beginning in Washington with a theory. We are beginning in Florida with real people, real employers, and real decisions. If we can prove a better way to see and develop human capability here, we can take what works across Florida—and eventually to the national stage.
The first operating case
What Began as a Tutoring Problem Revealed a Human-Capability Infrastructure Problem
Florida school systems need more capable adults supporting students. Many may already live in their communities, but résumés and traditional credentials do not fully reveal who can build trust, adapt when a lesson fails, exercise sound judgment, and remain dependable when conditions change.
Jump Start Tutoring is demonstrating how those capabilities can be recognized, developed, and strengthened through real work with students.
Tutoring gives the initiative a tangible place to begin. But the underlying challenge is not limited to schools. Frontline professionals across sectors also make consequential decisions that conventional systems struggle to see.
Tutoring is the proof case. Human capability is the larger question.
Across the table
The System Cannot Be Redesigned From One Side
The gathering will bring together people who encounter human capability at different stages—and rarely have the opportunity to examine it together.
Education
Superintendents, district leaders, principals, teachers, tutors, student-support leaders
Colleges and workforce
College leaders, career-services teams, workforce organizations, economic-mobility leaders
Employers
Frontline executives, human-resources leaders, operational leaders, managers
Founders and builders
Founders, operators, and investors building companies in South Florida who need frontline talent they can actually recognize
Research
Researchers, evaluators, behavioral scientists, institutional partners
Elected and civic leaders
State legislators, members of Congress, candidates for office, and economic-development leaders deciding what Florida's next economy is built on
Lived experience
Students, tutors, early-career workers, newcomers, and frontline employees whose experiences are usually discussed without them in the room
Potential voices may include leaders from South Florida school systems, colleges, employers, research institutions, and workforce organizations.
The work that led here
Dropping Our Armor
An interview series from The Lived Experience Report.
Through conversations with employers, educators, builders, researchers, and people whose capabilities were overlooked, Dropping Our Armor examines the defining moments that shape how people decide, adapt, build trust, and perform when the script disappears.
The first three issues of The Lived Experience Report explored the questions that led to this Expo: what does a system see when it looks at a human being—and what does it walk past?
Dropping Our Armor is the interview series we are building next.
Three issues published in The Lived Experience Report
Issue 01November 2025
Why I Started Vero — And What We’re Building Next
The story behind Lived Capital: how a tutoring company came to believe that capability is not the same thing as a credential.
Read the issueIssue 02December 2025
What’s Actually Broken in Hiring Right Now
Why the same brand runs smoothly in one region and burns down in another—and what more dashboards failed to fix.
Read the issueIssue 03April 2026
Getting Closer to the Market
A conversation with a learning leader inside a large organization on proximity, curiosity, and what AI cannot measure.
Read the issueThese conversations will introduce voices, questions, and uncomfortable truths that the Expo will bring into the same room.
Friday evening. Saturday, all day.
Every Session Produces Something the Room Can Use
Every session follows the same working rhythm: we introduce one insight, participants test it against their experience, practice a usable framework, and create something together.
Friday evening — establish the circle
The Lived Experience Floor
Drop your armor. Share the defining moments that built how you walk through the world. Employers name where those moments are exactly what they need.
The Fragmented Person
Encounter one person’s journey and identify what each institution could and could not see.
Four Views of One Person
A learner or practitioner, education leader, employer, and researcher respond to one shared question.
Founder Reframe
Move from overlooked capability and incomplete educational proxies to what Florida can build differently.
Opening Reflection
Name one capability lived experience built before an institution knew how to recognize it.
“What did your institution know about this person, and what could it not yet see?”
Saturday — the full working day
Where the Signal Disappears
Map what institutions measure, what they miss, and what happens during the handoff between them.
Output
Florida’s Fragmented Capability Journey
Tutoring as the First Proof Case
Work backward from a real student-support outcome to the decisions, information, and observable actions that make strong tutoring possible.
Outcome → Decision → Information Noticed → Observable Action
Output
Student-Support Judgment Map
From Tutoring to Frontline Work
Apply the same framework to roles in retail, healthcare, logistics, customer service, workforce development, or frontline supervision.
Output
Cross-Frontline Judgment Maps
From Behavior to Outcomes
Trace the evidence chain from micro-behaviors to decision patterns, capabilities, and the outcomes an institution values.
Micro-behaviors → Decision patterns → Capabilities → Outcomes
Output
Institutional Signal Gap Map
Questions Florida Should Test Together
Select the most important questions Florida should test across education and frontline work.
Output
Questions Florida Should Test Together
Shared Work Design Lab
Translate the day’s learning into one potential 90-day experiment, implementation, study, or institutional collaboration.
Output
One Shared Work Blueprint per participating organization
Research questions the room may test
- Does selecting for judgment stabilize performance outcomes?
- Can it reduce early turnover, manager escalation, or time to readiness?
- Can capabilities identified in education predict later workplace performance?
- Which lived experiences produce capabilities that transfer across roles?
- Can shared capability language improve institutional handoffs?
Inside every Shared Work Blueprint
The population or role, the outcome that matters, a consequential decision moment, relevant capabilities, existing evidence, what could be tested in 90 days, and who must join the next working meeting.
The day closes with the Walk Home: recognizing courage, curiosity, changed thinking, constructive disagreement, and contribution.
What participants leave with
Not Recommendations. Working Assets.
01
A personal Lived Experience Judgment Map
02
Florida’s Fragmented Capability Journey
03
A role-specific Judgment Map
04
An Institutional Signal Gap Map
05
Questions Florida Should Test Together
06
A 90-Day Shared Work Blueprint
07
A post-event field note capturing what the gathering learned
What happens next
The Gathering Is the Beginning
Participants who identify a meaningful opportunity for shared work will have a clear path to continue the conversation.
01
Within 48 hours
Participants receive a field note capturing the patterns, questions, and possibilities surfaced by the room.
02
Within 14 days
Interested organizations enter a focused working conversation around one role, population, outcome, or institutional handoff.
03
Within 90 days
Selected organizations may begin a defined implementation, research study, or shared-work experiment.
The format
What This Is—and Is Not
This is
- A facilitated working gathering
- A cross-institution learning environment
- A practical introduction to judgment mapping
- A place to challenge assumptions safely
- A starting point for shared research and implementation
This is not
- –A product demonstration
- –A conventional conference
- –A collection of disconnected panels
- –A lecture about the future of work
- –A forced-consensus exercise
- –A promise that one framework replaces professional judgment
The convenor
Created by Chrissybil “Sybil” Boulin
Chrissybil “Sybil” Boulin was born in New York and spent her summers in Haiti—a childhood split between the world’s wealthiest nation and a country still rebuilding its foundation. In New York, she watched her single mother organize susus—community lending circles—to pay for Catholic school. In Haiti, she watched kids repair broken street phones that big tech stores couldn’t fix, and neighbors organize food distribution after disasters before formal aid ever showed up.
From a young age, she learned that value doesn’t always look like money or degrees. Sometimes it looks like resilience, creativity, and people solving impossible problems with almost no resources.
She worked her way to the University of Cambridge, then turned down the “serious” policy path for measurable impact now. She founded Jump Start Tutoring with $500—no co-founder, no investor—on the belief that kids overlooked on paper can outperform everyone’s expectations. It became a government-contracted education company working alongside families, schools, and districts across South Florida, and proved something deeper: human potential is predictable, if you know what to measure.
She later founded Vero Learning to make the judgment built through lived experience visible—and to connect that intelligence to hiring, development, mobility, and frontline performance.
“What began as a tutoring problem revealed itself as a human-capability infrastructure problem.”
She is not building a think tank. She is freeing capability that institutions were never designed to see—one person, one employer, one defining moment at a time.
Convened by Jump Start Tutoring and Vero Learning
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Tell Us How You Want to Enter the Room
The Expo is designed for people seeking opportunity, employers seeking overlooked talent, and leaders ready to build a better system together.
Participation is curated to create a room where people seeking opportunity, employers, educators, researchers, and system leaders can do meaningful work together. Submitting this form is a request for consideration and does not guarantee selection.
Human Capability Should Not Disappear Between Institutions
The next step is bringing the people who educate, employ, study, and support Florida’s talent around one table—and building a better way to see it together.