Our Story
The firm grew out of one family's experience with what happens when a career disappears, and a thirty-year mission to make sure the next person has a path.
Dr. Mildred G. Coyne, EdD · Founder
In Her Words
When I was eighteen, I watched my father's career end. He had given thirty-two years to a union steel mill, and when the steel industry left the United States, his work left with it. He was fifty-two. He retired with a quarter of his pension and a great deal of disillusionment, and for years afterward he struggled with a harder question than money: who was he now, if not the man who did that work?
I did not have an answer then. What I had was a front-row view of what happens to a family when a career disappears and no one has built the next path. That view never left me.
When my husband and I moved to the Space Coast and I took my first job at the community college, I worked with students who were academically and economically disadvantaged, most of them the first in their families to attend college. I recognized them immediately, because I had been both of those students myself. I helped them build career exploration into their education, so that college connected to a future and not only to a major or a mascot.
My father deserved a path forward. Every student in every program we touch deserves one too.
That work taught me the difference between enrolling and arriving. Too many students were guided toward a degree and away from a career. The result was debt, doubt, and a quiet distrust of higher education. The institutions doing this work needed a partner who understood both sides: the policy that governs colleges and the labor market that hires their graduates.
That is a real calling, and it is the reason Coyne Workforce Solutions exists. After more than thirty years inside the Florida college system, I started this firm to help presidents and workforce leaders build credentials of value: stackable, employer-aligned programs that complete, place, and pay. Federal policy is finally moving in the same direction. Workforce Pell, earnings accountability, and Learning and Employment Records all reward the work I have spent my life doing, helping a student ladder from a first skill to a real career, and helping a college prove it.
A Rare Track Record
She has already done what she now helps you do.
Few advisors can point to this kind of record: a gubernatorial appointment, a national fellowship, a nationally studied program of her own, and three decades inside the system she now advises.
Explore Dr. Coyne's full track record- Appointed by Gov. DeSantis to the Commission for Independent Education, served as Chair
- Aspen Rising Presidents Fellow, 2020 to 2021
- Launched Broward UP, profiled by New America and Florida TaxWatch
- Founding co-chair, statewide Council for Workforce Education
The Mission
Build talent supply to meet employer demand.
Every engagement is led personally by Dr. Coyne, helping colleges turn federal policy into programs that complete, place, and earn.