When it is your responsibility to prepare a young person to meet the challenges of adolescence and adulthood and achieve his or her full potential, failure is not an option. The community, their parents and they themselves count on your ability to design and implement the programs that will develop social, ethical, emotional, physical, and cognitive competencies.For almost 15 years I have been developing the skills and experience to lead and motivate these soon to be adults to become contributing members of society, teaching them to practice exercising authority over themselves or others. My approach is to utilize hands-on activities with appropriate adult mentoring and stressing community service.The challenge is to promote positive youth development and plan quality experiences with young people to stimulate, challenge, and encourage them as they work together to plan, conduct, and evaluate quality experiences. Youth development is about young people gaining a sense of contributing something of value to society, connecting to others and to society and a belief that they have choices about their future.Clearly, this is a team effort and my success with the youth is dependent on the close collaboration and single-mindedness of the team I manage, the programs we develop and the vendors who supply us with the products and services we need.If you’d like to know more about what and how we do what we do, feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn.