• Professional Trainer / Instructor / Facilitator – since January 2000 – specializing in assessing training needs, developing custom agendas, and delivering highly-effective researched-based instructional programs on a variety of topics delivered via traditional, blended, and distance learning methods to ensure optimal use
• Founder / Executive Director Lady Butterflies – since February 2010 - 501(c)3 nonprofit organization providing social supportive services for women and teen girls in transition (OH & GA)
• Small Business Coach – since January 2013 – creatively trained to assist in turning dreams and ideas into money-making realities! Committed to helping create success by focusing on personal development, time management, self-sabotaging behavior, decision making, and getting into action
• Professional Speaker – since July 2013 – specializing in educational topics: Entrepreneurship, Small Business Development, Creative Marketing, Fitness & Health, Career Development, and Self-Care
• Author: Instructional Manual – Career Literacy – since 2019 - illustrated interactive workbook for High School Students and First Year College Students, that encompasses both career assessment and financial literacy
She is an active member with Live Healthy DeKalb Coalition (LHD), a committee member with Georgia Association of Colleges and Employers (GACE), and program advisor for the Surgical Tech Program at Altierus. She actively serves as a Board Officer with Mine 4 GOD Productions (Ohio) and Vice-President PTSA Grace Snell Middle School (Georgia).
She is self motivated with strong planning, organizational, creative and interpersonal skills – demonstrating outstanding leadership while maintaining a clear sense of purpose. She has more than 18 years training and development, business management, supervisory and human services experience; more than 13 years of experience as a Life Skills & Career Coach; and more than 11 years of experience as a mentor and advocate to youth, teenagers, adults, and families with diverse backgrounds and barriers.
Her goal is to work with individuals using her vast experience with education and mentoring by discovery, awareness, goal-setting, and choice – effectively empowering them to find their own answers, encouraging and supporting them on the path as they continue to make important life, family, education, and career goals. She also plans to focus on family dynamics in relation to literacy and, in particular, working with parents to help them develop relationships with their children’s teachers and create a literacy-rich home environment that includes positive and enriching communications between both.
