SKILLS: Bringing professionals together to help others in need. Commercial and fashion modeling. Makeup artistry. Nonprofit origination, management, and leadership. Training, community engagement and outreach, contract personnel management, nonprofit and government outreach, fundraising and grant writing, public speaking.RELATED SKILLS: Strategic communications, storytelling, writing, audience identification and interests, messaging, marketing, and coaching. I try to see those who feel unseen and give the unheard a voice. First through creating a nonprofit organization (see below) and currently through allowing women to see their beautiful selves, modeling (ideally for causes that create good) and through working with communities to use artist to make their community stronger. I believe everyone deserves to be heard, so I created and direct the nonprofit organization, Heard (http://heardnova.org). Our team of artists bring creative arts to people in need, and in just over five years we have brought creativity, expression, and life skills over 1,000 individuals through our nonprofit and local government program partners. Our talented team offers all manner of creative writing (poetry, spoken word, fiction, nonfiction), acting, public speaking, improvisation, visual arts, and even etiquette!For my fellow communications pros and nonprofit professionals, I’ve been there. As a coach, communicator, and nonprofit executive director, I am in your shoes. I can help you get the results you want at work and the balance you crave in life. Let’s get to work!Armed with a Cause Consultant certification and a masters’ degree in Public Relations and Corporate Communications, I work with nonprofits and businesses who are passionate about corporate social responsibility, and all things related to community engagement. As a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, I coach executives, leaders, individuals, teams and other relationships critical to individual and organizational success.As a retired Colonel from the United States Air Force, I have over 20 years of experience in the Public Affairs, Inspector General, Services, and Personnel career fields. During my years with the Air Force, I served as the lead on joint-service public affairs initiatives, and as the trusted advisor at the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force and general officer levels.
Listed skills include Leadership, Public Speaking, Nonprofits, Strategic Communications, and 33 others.
