Member Spotlight: Alex Sokolenko

Alex Sokolenko

Founder

Dispatch Training Center, Legacy Shift

Alex Sokolenko is building more than businesses. She is building pathways. As the founder of Dispatch Training Center (DTC) and Legacy Shift, her work sits at the intersection of education, empowerment, and long-term impact. At the core of everything she does is a simple but powerful belief: when people are equipped with the right knowledge, they can change not only their own lives, but the trajectory of generations to come.

Building with Purpose

For Alex, education is not just part of the business. It is the business.

Her work with DTC was born from a clear gap she saw in the logistics industry. There was a lack of accessible, practical education for people trying to break in, especially those coming from different countries or non-traditional backgrounds. Through hands-on training and real-world application, she has helped thousands step into careers with confidence.

Legacy Shift expands that mission.

While DTC focuses on training dispatchers, Legacy Shift was created to support those same individuals and others in the transportation space through insurance education and services. It is not just about getting a policy in place. It is about understanding risk, protecting assets, and building something sustainable.

The two companies are deeply connected in purpose, even if they operate separately in structure.

“People need more than opportunity,” Alex explains. “They need to understand how to protect what they are building.”

Impact That Lasts

When asked what she is most proud of, Alex does not hesitate.

“Changing lives.”

With thousands of students having gone through her programs, she points especially to those who have experienced true transformation. Individuals who have gone from uncertainty to stability, from survival to growth.

She is especially passionate about supporting women, including single mothers, often providing free or sponsored education to help them get started.

“For me, it might just be a few students in a class,” she says. “But for them, it is life-changing.”

And that impact does not stop with one person. It ripples outward into families, communities, and future generations.

The Meaning Behind “Legacy Shift”

The name itself is deeply personal.

As an immigrant, Alex sees her work as the beginning of something larger than herself. Her children are first-generation, and everything she builds is rooted in creating a stronger foundation for them and others like them.

“Legacy Shift is about starting that legacy and changing it.”

In a moment of unexpected clarity, she also realized the name carries a hidden connection to her own identity, tying back to her legal name. What started as a business decision became something that felt, in her words, meant to be.

Growth as a Leader

Over the past five years, Alex’s biggest transformation has not just been in business. It has been internal. She speaks openly about the work it has taken to grow as a leader. Letting go of ego, learning patience, and understanding that not everyone operates at the same pace or in the same way.

“I had to learn that not everyone thinks like me, works like me, or processes like me and that is okay.”

That realization became a turning point. Instead of trying to shape everyone into the same mold, she now focuses on meeting people where they are and helping them grow from there.

Her self-described superpower is connection. “I can connect with anyone,” she says. “Background, status, culture. It does not matter.”

A Different Kind of Awareness

Outside of business, Alex has explored tools like numerology as a way to better understand herself and others. For her, it is less about prediction and more about awareness. Identifying strengths, recognizing gaps, and finding balance.

“It helps you understand your gifts,” she explains. “And also what you need to work on.”

That self-awareness has shaped how she leads, builds, and shows up. Not just for others, but for herself. After years of pouring into everyone else, she has learned the importance of creating space for her own growth and well-being.

What’s Next

Looking ahead, Alex is focused on scaling Legacy Shift into a diverse, high-impact agency. One that brings together people from different backgrounds with a shared goal of building something meaningful. At the same time, she is stepping into a new chapter. She envisions herself on stages, speaking, traveling, and sharing her story. A story rooted in resilience, identity, and transformation. And there is one more project she is determined to finish. Her book. An autobiography years in the making, it explores her journey as an immigrant, a mother, a business owner, and a woman navigating identity across cultures. Its working title captures that experience in a single, powerful image:

“Soul Lost in the Atlantic Ocean.”

Because, as she puts it, when you leave one country for another, a part of you exists somewhere in between, and it takes time to find your way back to yourself.

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What becomes clear in talking with Alex is that nothing she builds is accidental. Every program, every conversation, every opportunity she creates is rooted in intention. She is not just teaching people how to step into new careers. She is helping them think bigger about what is possible for their lives, their families, and their future.

DTC gives people a starting point. Legacy Shift helps them protect and sustain it. And through both, Alex is quietly doing something much larger. She is helping people rewrite their story in real time.

For Alex, success is not measured by titles or numbers alone. It is measured in the lives changed, the confidence built, and the legacies that begin because someone was given the chance and the tools to move forward. And in that way, her work speaks for itself.