Delegate to Grow: Becoming a Successful Intern Host
Ready to expand your team’s capacity without overwhelming your schedule or your budget?
Join us for Delegate to Grow: Becoming a Successful Intern Host, an interactive 90-minute workshop designed to give founders the tools, recruiting timelines, and strategic access to subsidized student intern pipelines across our region.
What We’ll Cover
The Regional Landscape: Key local internship programs and recruiting timelines for the 2027 pipeline.
Role Scoping: How to build high-impact, manageable project scopes and job descriptions.
Candidate Alignment: Creating a practical skills snapshot tailored to your business needs.
Host Readiness: Best practices and structures to support, evaluate, and retain interns.
What You’ll Walk Away With
Regional internship program directory & key deadlines
A fully scoped project & job description draft
Role-specific skills snapshot template
Comprehensive intern host checklist
Who Should Attend
Founders and small business leaders ready to scale operational capacity, delegate effectively, and step into roles as active community employers.
What to Bring
Your laptop, your morning beverage, and an active project or role idea you want to delegate.
About Your Trainers
Jacinta Walker, Founder, Equal Pay Project & Chief Architect of WholeView Report
Jacinta connects high-potential candidates with opportunities that drive economic mobility. Bringing over 25 years of business development experience, she has directed major initiatives for entrepreneurial support organizations—designing and launching programs tailored to bridge critical operational knowledge gaps for founders. She is dedicated to helping business owners build sustainable companies that actively fuel regional economic growth, and is the author of the upcoming book Equal Pay Isn't Equal.
Amanda Stockwell, Founder, Stockwell Strategy & The Seed List
Amanda helps emerging talent connect with high-impact startup opportunities across North Carolina. She has shaped UX and product strategy for nearly 100 clients, taught UX research fundamentals to thousands of learners through LinkedIn Learning, spoken globally, and currently teaches in Duke University’s Design & Technology Innovation program.