ABOUT CHARMIN
You separated with more skill than most civilians will ever build.
You deserve a life that knows it
If you've ever sat across from someone handing you a checklist: VA claim, résumé, LinkedIn, "use your benefits" and felt the quiet devastation of realizing none of it touches who you actually are now, you already know why this practice exists. You don't need another resource. You need someone who will sit in the truth of your transition with you and help you build something real.
And if you lead an organization that keeps saying the right things and losing the right people anyway, you already know the problem isn't the mission statement. It's the gap between what you say you value and what your systems actually reward. That gap is fixable. That's also this work.
Charmin N.Jacobs
Charmin N.Jacobs
Founder & CEO
THE STORY
She didn't study this work for the outside. She lived it
She didn't study this work for the outside. She lived it
Charmin N. Jacobs spent more than 22 years in the U.S. Navy doing the thing she was born to do: teaching people how to grow. She built training programs, designed curriculum, led equal opportunity and workforce teams across Navy Medicine and did all of it while navigating what it means to be a woman, a veteran, and a queer Black woman in an institution that was not always built with her in mind.
She watched high-performing women get passed over. She watched organizations pour resources into initiatives that never reached the people who needed them most. She watched women separate from the military with medals, commendations, and two decades of irreplaceable leadership experience and then spend years feeling lost in a civilian world that had no framework for what they carried.
When she separated, she could have built a resume-polishing service. She could have opened another leadership training company with stock photos of handshakes. She built neither of those things. She built a practice that goes where the real work is, into the identity, the transition, the culture, and the systems that shape what becomes possible for people.
That practice is Teachable Learnable Solutions. And it works because she has been every person she now serves.
"I am not interested in teaching people to survive their circumstances. I am interested in teaching them to outgrow them — and in helping organizations build the kind of culture where that growth is not just possible, but expected."
~ Charmin N. Jacobs
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Director, Navy Medicine Training Center Detachment Portsmouth
Leadership roles at Naval Hospital Okinawa and Branch Medical Clinic Oceana
Deputy Diversity Director, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery — led an 80-member equal opportunity & workforce team
20+ years of instructional design, curriculum development, and adult learning — applied across Navy Medicine and beyond
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Director, Navy Medicine Training Center Detachment Portsmouth
Deputy Diversity Director, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery — led an 80-member equal opportunity & workforce team
Leadership roles at Naval Hospital Okinawa and Branch Medical Clinic Oceana
20+ years of instructional design, curriculum development, and adult learning — applied across Navy Medicine and beyond
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Director, Navy Medicine Training Center Detachment Portsmouth
Deputy Diversity Director, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery — led an 80-member equal opportunity & workforce team
Leadership roles at Naval Hospital Okinawa and Branch Medical Clinic Oceana
20+ years of instructional design, curriculum development, and adult learning — applied across Navy Medicine and beyond
FOR WOMEN VETERANS
FOR WOMEN VETERANS
Imagine finishing six months
knowing exactly what your life
is for.
Not the version you settled into because you didn't know what else to do. Not the next deployment in civilian clothes. The one where you wake up feeling like yourself — where your work fits your values, your relationships reflect who you've become, and the person looking back in the mirror isn't still waiting for permission to take up space.
That is what six months inside the Success After Discharge framework produces. Not for every woman — for the ones who are ready to do the real work. If that's you, the first step is a conversation.
FOR WOMEN VETERANS
FOR WOMEN VETERANS
Imagine finishing six months
knowing exactly what your life
is for.
Not the version you settled into because you didn't know what else to do. Not the next deployment in civilian clothes. The one where you wake up feeling like yourself — where your work fits your values, your relationships reflect who you've become, and the person looking back in the mirror isn't still waiting for permission to take up space.
That is what six months inside the Success After Discharge framework produces. Not for every woman — for the ones who are ready to do the real work. If that's you, the first step is a conversation.
FOR ORGANIZATIONS
Image a team where your best people stay and tell other why
Not because of a policy. Not because of a perks package. Because the culture you built actually matches the values on your wall. Because your managers know how to lead across difference. Because people feel seen before they feel evaluated and that changes everything about how they perform and whether they stay.
That is what this consulting work builds, not awareness, not compliance, but durable organizational capability. The kind that holds when the consultant leaves. If your organization is ready for that, let's talk about what it takes.
FOR ORGANIZATIONS
Image a team where your best people stay and tell other why
Not because of a policy. Not because of a perks package. Because the culture you built actually matches the values on your wall. Because your managers know how to lead across difference. Because people feel seen before they feel evaluated and that changes everything about how they perform and whether they stay.
That is what this consulting work builds, not awareness, not compliance, but durable organizational capability. The kind that holds when the consultant leaves. If your organization is ready for that, let's talk about what it takes.
FOR ORGANIZATIONS
Image a team where your best people stay and tell other why
Not because of a policy. Not because of a perks package. Because the culture you built actually matches the values on your wall. Because your managers know how to lead across difference. Because people feel seen before they feel evaluated and that changes everything about how they perform and whether they stay.
That is what this consulting work builds, not awareness, not compliance, but durable organizational capability. The kind that holds when the consultant leaves. If your organization is ready for that, let's talk about what it takes.
FOR WOMEN VETERANS
FOR WOMEN VETERANS
Imagine finishing six months
knowing exactly what your life
is for.
Not the version you settled into because you didn't know what else to do. Not the next deployment in civilian clothes. The one where you wake up feeling like yourself — where your work fits your values, your relationships reflect who you've become, and the person looking back in the mirror isn't still waiting for permission to take up space.
That is what six months inside the Success After Discharge framework produces. Not for every woman — for the ones who are ready to do the real work. If that's you, the first step is a conversation.
FOR ORGANIZATIONS
Image a team where your best people stay and tell other why
Not because of a policy. Not because of a perks package. Because the culture you built actually matches the values on your wall. Because your managers know how to lead across difference. Because people feel seen before they feel evaluated and that changes everything about how they perform and whether they stay.
That is what this consulting work builds, not awareness, not compliance, but durable organizational capability. The kind that holds when the consultant leaves. If your organization is ready for that, let's talk about what it takes.
THE FULL PRACTICE
Everything she builds.
The work spans coaching, consulting, curriculum, community, and authorship. Five distinct expressions of one conviction: that people who are supported with real depth and real expertise build extraordinary things.
COACHING
Success After Discharge - 1:1 and Group
Six-pillar framework built for women veterans. Covers Fit, People, Space, Faith, Work, and Money — the full terrain of a life after service. Because transition was never just about finding a job.
CONSULTING
Leadership & Workforce Culture
For federal agencies, nonprofits, and veteran-serving organizations. Leadership development, workforce climate strategy, policy alignment, and the kind of facilitation that actually moves a room.
CURRICULUM
ATD-Standard Learning Design
Six-pillar framework built for women veterans. Covers Fit, People, Space, Faith, Work, and Money — the full terrain of a life after service. Because transition was never just about finding a job.
COMMUNITY
Founder, Investor, Builder
Founding board member of Envision Lead Grow; VP and founding member of RR Fund Investment Club; co-owner of Travel Concierge Partners; creator of Women Veterans Ignited and Lesbian of Leisure & Travel. She builds community the same way she builds everything else — with intention and staying power.
THE FULL PRACTICE
Everything she builds.
The work spans coaching, consulting, curriculum, community, and authorship. Five distinct expressions of one conviction: that people who are supported with real depth and real expertise build extraordinary things.
COACHING
Success After Discharge - 1:1 and Group
Six-pillar framework built for women veterans. Covers Fit, People, Space, Faith, Work, and Money — the full terrain of a life after service. Because transition was never just about finding a job.
CONSULTING
Leadership & Workforce Culture
For federal agencies, nonprofits, and veteran-serving organizations. Leadership development, workforce climate strategy, policy alignment, and the kind of facilitation that actually moves a room.
CURRICULUM
ATD-Standard Learning Design
Six-pillar framework built for women veterans. Covers Fit, People, Space, Faith, Work, and Money — the full terrain of a life after service. Because transition was never just about finding a job.
COMMUNITY
Founder, Investor, Builder
Founding board member of Envision Lead Grow; VP and founding member of RR Fund Investment Club; co-owner of Travel Concierge Partners; creator of Women Veterans Ignited and Lesbian of Leisure & Travel. She builds community the same way she builds everything else — with intention and staying power.
THE STORY
What you get when you work with Charmin.
You work with the founder. Every time.
Strategy, coaching, facilitation, and quality assurance come directly from Charmin. Your outcomes are her outcomes.
The work is built to last, not to extend.
The goal is your capability, not your dependency. Every engagement ends with you more capable than when it started. That's not a promise — it's the design.
Evidence-based. Outcomes-measured. No fluff.
Every framework is grounded in peer-reviewed research — CBT, ACT, ATD standards, Bloom's Taxonomy, Minority Stress Theory. The rigor is built in because the people being served deserve nothing less.
WOSB & SDVOSB eligible for federal work.
Teachable Learnable Solutions meets eligibility criteria for Woman-Owned and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business set-aside contracts via SAM.gov.
THE STORY
What you get when you work with Charmin.
You work with the founder. Every time.
Strategy, coaching, facilitation, and quality assurance come directly from Charmin. Your outcomes are her outcomes.
The work is built to last, not to extend.
The goal is your capability, not your dependency. Every engagement ends with you more capable than when it started. That's not a promise — it's the design.
Evidence-based. Outcomes-measured. No fluff.
Every framework is grounded in peer-reviewed research — CBT, ACT, ATD standards, Bloom's Taxonomy, Minority Stress Theory. The rigor is built in because the people being served deserve nothing less.
WOSB & SDVOSB eligible for federal work.
Teachable Learnable Solutions meets eligibility criteria for Woman-Owned and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business set-aside contracts via SAM.gov.
YOUR NEXT STEP
The work that changes your life starts with one conversation.
You've read the page. You know what this is. The only question is whether you're ready — and if you are, the next step is simple. Choose your path below.
WOMEN VETERAN
Book a Clarity Call
Complimentary·30 minutes · No pressure
ORGANIZATIONS
Request a Consultation
Scope to your content - Federal- ready
YOUR NEXT STEP
The work that changes your life starts with one conversation.
You've read the page. You know what this is. The only question is whether you're ready — and if you are, the next step is simple. Choose your path below.
WOMEN VETERAN
Book a Clarity Call
Complimentary·30 minutes · No pressure
ORGANIZATIONS
Request a Consultation
Scope to your content - Federal- ready
Coaching for women veterans navigating life after service, and consulting for organizations building inclusive workplaces where everyone can thrive.