MS, Walden University. MBA, Maryville University. BS, Pennsylvania State University. Osorio is an author, coach, speaker, and podcast host who helps people discover, date, and develop healthy relationships with their passions and purpose. For over a decade, he has helped people pursue their passions for bringing a business idea to life, working for a variety of clients that include: The World Bank, Techstars, LVMH, Startup Weekend, Orlando Magic, and Google. He also teaches entrepreneurship to educators at theUniversity of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education. He has taught at both Penn and Sarah Lawrence since 2018. In earlier chapters of his life, Osorio worked in corporate sales and taught middle- and high-school math for both public inner-city and private schools. SLC, 2020–
Practicum
Open, Practicum—Spring
This course experience teaches students the process for taking any idea from concept to creation and the strategies for executing that work effectively and efficiently. All students will engage in the process within the context of ideas developed by the students. By combining theory with practice, students will have the opportunity to experience a full process cycle so that they can begin the journey to mastering these skills. Assignments will track the various steps of the process, culminating in a final paper and presentation to a panel of alumni judges.
Faculty
Open, Large seminar—Spring
In this course, you are going to take an idea for a passion project and take the first step in bringing it to life. You will design, execute, and publish a minimum viable project that validates your area of interest, develops your reputation in your interest area, and gives you valuable experience from which to continue moving forward. This type of project will help you to: clearly and concisely communicate your ideas, reflections, and insights; practice pitching your work to new audiences and potential partners and collaborators; build influence in a field or space that is new to you; develop your professional network in a meaningful and intentional way; engage with and activate rockstar mentors on a tangible projec; learn more about yourself, including your values, passions, and purpose; and gain valuable perspective and experience on what it takes to bring ideas to life. You are an ideal fit for this course if you have one or more of the following: an idea for a passion project that you want to bring to life; a business idea that you would like to explore and test; a particular problem that you would like to solve for a specific group of people; an initiative that you want to launch; a personal brand that you want to launch into the world; a specific job for which you want to competitively position yourself.
Faculty
Open, Large seminar—Spring
PRAC 3035
In this course, you will explore your business ideas or passion interests through content creation, so that you can design a business or passion project that solves an important problem. Whether you have a business idea or a passion project that you want to bring to life, this course will help you leverage the power of content creation in order to pave a way into your field of interest while building your credibility, network, and personal brand. You will launch a podcast and interview the “who’s who” of your field of interest! Equipped with the lessons learned from your interviews, you will conceive and bring a business or passion project to life that you will pitch to a panel of judges made of up of esteemed SLC alumni. The top-voted presentation will win a cash grant to help launch the idea!