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PITCH YOUR POTENTIAL

Dr. Vicki Johnson works with groups and individuals to help them hone their personal pitch for career-advancing opportunities. She teaches you how to expertly communicate your potential, negotiate for elite opportunities, find mentors, and build networks. Her speaking and workshops cover topics including how to win highly competitive opportunities through developing a winning application story, cultivating a winner’s mindset, distinguishing guides from gatekeepers, and entering every competition with confidence.

Get the Book: Pitch Your Potential

Dr. Vicki Johnson’s forthcoming book Pitch Your Potential is an in-depth guide to her breakthrough MATCH ME Formula®, the 7 elements of a winning application. The Formula has helped thousands achieve leadership roles, top university spots, awards, and business accelerators. If you have been seeking a Formula to make a winning personal pitch, this book is your guide.

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Book Vicki for speaking

Dr. Vicki Johnson delivers high-impact keynotes and speaking engagements that equip ambitious professionals and students with the strategies to win elite opportunities, including dream jobs, top university spots, fellowships, and global awards. With a dynamic and engaging style, she breaks down the application process and provides actionable insights, proven frameworks, and real-world success strategies to help individuals navigate competitive admissions and take the next big leap in their careers.

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Book individual advising

If you are applying to graduate school, a competitive fellowship, or other opportunity involving an intense application process, including personal statements, research proposals, a resume or academic CV and Finalist interviews, you can work with Dr. Vicki Johnson to develop an exceptional application and put your best foot forward, using he award-winning MATCH ME Formula. She offers:

Mentoring Sessions

Application Review Sessions

Master’s Applicant Advising

PhD Applicant Advising

Fellowship and Fulbright Advising

Career Acceleration Advising

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Why Top Achievers Trust Vicki’s Expertise

“I assumed that my lack of publications and low test scores would eliminate me from top tier schools. Through Dr. Johnson’s Fully Funded Course, I applied to 8 schools and was accepted to 4, fully funded!

Clarice Robinson
PHD Candidate, University of Chicago

$1m

in funding offers

"I would absolutely recommend Dr. Johnson’s guidance to others starting out on their graduate school journeys. I received multiple acceptances and funding offers for top MPP and MBA programs, including a Zuckerman Fellowship ($88,000 award) for a joint MPP and MBA at Harvard University and Wharton Business School.”

Sheila Xu
Aspiring Deaf Astronaut

$800K

in funding offers

“I learned ways to make my applications timely, urgent, and elegant. After several years of unsuccessful applications, I am pleased to report that this year I won the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Fellowship, providing full funding for grad school and a career path to the U.S. Foreign Service."

Andrew Dippel
Thomas R. Pickering Fellow

Winner

Fellowship and Foreign Service Officer

“I still cannot believe what I have achieved - a full funding award worth more than $75,000 and the opportunity to attend my dream master's program. Your MATCH ME Formula helped me build and polish my application story. This gave me the edge I needed to stand out among so many other outstanding candidates.”

OUMAMA KABIL, 
Thomas R. Pickering Fellowship Winner and U.S. Foreign Service Officer
"Before working with Vicki, I thought I wasn't a unique or qualified enough candidate to be applying for any of the opportunities I had my heart set on. Vicki taught me how to research opportunities, find the "insider information" that was right in front of me, and determine the best way to tell my story for each award. These are REAL strategies and tools that will elevate your application and make you stand out from the rest of the applicant pool. I am now a multi-fellowship winner and earning my Master's degree fully funded. She gave me the confidence to never give up again."

RACHEL SANTARSIERO,
Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship Winner
As an immigrant, learning how to market yourself is extremely important. I ABSOLUTELY recommend Dr. Johnson's guidance the to anyone who is overwhelmed by the application process. With her support, I won the Urban Leaders Fellowship and full funding to achieve my PhD in Criminology at Arizona State University, a $250,000 funding package."

THÁIS MOREIRA DE ANDRADE
PhD candidate & fellowship winner