I love Black people and my passion is to help them exercise self-determination through teaching them how to build thriving nonprofit organizations and through coaching them on how to create high performance lives.

I began my nonprofit career in Atlanta in 1998 where I held several fundraising and executive management posts with small and medium sized organizations.  I have served as an AmeriCorps VISTA and worked on public health projects with the DeKalb County (Georgia) Board of Health.

As a Certified High-Performance Coach (CHPC) TM, I help individuals and groups create life-long habits that lead them to consistently experience full engagement, joy and confidence. I am also a mentor with the Chicago chapter of the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) on nonprofit startup, management and fundraising.

Before my nonprofit career I spent ten years in the fields of journalism and marketing communications at boutique public relations and advertising firms and institutions of higher education on my home island of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.

The CHPC methodology is science based and features a coaching approach and curriculum that guides clients in developing habits most commonly practiced by the world’s most successful people. These habits are to: seek clarity, generate energy, raise necessity, increase productivity, develop influence and demonstrate courage.  To achieve the habits, clients must master their psychology, physiology, productivity, people skills, presence and purpose.

A lot has changed in the last few years and many people have lost their vision and motivation. It is within this “playground” of chaos and uncertainty that I enthusiastically serves my clients as a Certified High Performance Coach. The values that most define my coaching at this moment are:

• VISION.  I have my clients speak of, tap into it and work towards manifesting it.  I ask them to imagine a better way of life.  Through the coaching process I return to what they told me as a way to continually sell them the vision they described.

• NECESSITY. I challenge them to make it necessary to achieve their goals, their vision; to move towards it.  They’ve got to be hungry to show up and do the work. Consistency is driven by necessity. I tell them that it’s time to get back into the game. It’s necessary to take back control and we have to work together to achieve it.

• RHYTHM. I help my clients reestablish a rhythm of consistency in this new normal. We don’t often have enough consistency and structure in our lives.  We have to consciously structure time to build that rhythm because with it comes momentum and once that gets going, confidence follows.

• TENACITY. I push my clients to keep going, to push through when they don’t understand something or feel they don’t understand anything at all; when the deck is stacked against them.  My goal is that they must see themselves being more working with me, that we’re going to get the job done together.