We create and operate special educational programs utilizing adventure travel as a catalyst for high school - collage age students diagnosed with ASD.

The Walking Connection is an adventure travel, media and management company based in Glendale, AZ, USA. We provide our website visitors and blog followers with information on how they can live happier and healthier lives by living a more active lifestyle. Though "healthy living," is at the core of who we are, our company is not simply about fitness, exercise, walking and hiking. We are also about enjoying the great wines of the world, the unique flavors of local cuisine, meeting people of different cultures and taking long walks, just to see what’s around the next corner. For the last 31 years we have been selling guided active adventure travel to more than 30 countries and some of the world's most exciting destinations. We specialize in small group adventures, custom family adventures, and our latest additions are pre-arranged independent and self-guided adventures.Guests and members can subscribe to our free e-newletters, WalkTalk which, is about walking, hiking, motivation, inspiration and living healthy; and Going Places, which is about our travel adventures. For our business clients, we utilize adventure travel as a center piece for specialized creative marketing and promotional campaign development, and we provide database management for all of our initiatives and outside corporate partners and stakeholders.We provide destination (Itinerary) development and management centered on active lifestyle programming for private companies, tourism boards and their stakeholders on regional, national and international clients.http://www.walkingconnection.com

iConquer specializes in creating and operating specialty hiking adventures that are utilized by non-profit organizations as fundraising campaigns. We provide a complete turnkey system that includes cobranding, integrated website and social networking support, participant recruiting, participant training, travel logistics, and full onsite services. Organizations have utilized our programing to raise more than $26,000,000 since 2003.http://iConquerAdventures.com

Responsible for development of overall marketing strategies and implementation. Division manager for typesetting, design and printing. Division manager and event planner for medium (100+) to citywide conventions.