Working at the Kellogg Company provided access to a great company, with great values and exceptional professional development. After 14 years, the discontinuation of EBA project provided an opportunity to stop traveling and be at home with my school age children. I opened a small consulting business that allowed me to work in areas that met my intellectual needs and leveraged my talents; improvement, process design and project work, allowing me to provide a valuable service to community programming. It was my way of thanking God, Kellogg and all the professionals who invested in my development. Like most process consulting work, the journey has been a winding road, with unique, unexpected turns. From 211 information call centers, school shooters & police QUAD training, school improvement, and community drug prevention, the journey has been great! It is a testimony to the underpinning truths of process improvement. If it is a system, strategic process, people and organizational alignment can exist. One particular project led me to obtain my State of Michigan Highly Qualified Secondary Education teaching certification. This professional experience has made me more effective in working with public education initiatives and certainly a better training deliverer and facilitator. My MA is from WMU in Education, Urban Education with an emphasis on assessing learning outcomes and student motivation.My PhD coursework in Training and Human Performance Improvement was a refreshing confirmation of how intriguing organizational analysis is and how empowering organizational change work can be. My research, a qualitative two-case study sought to understand how coaching in an educational setting influences performance and systems.