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The Lentium Group is an intercultural development platform that facilitates an environment where individuals, high performing teams, companies, and organizations can successfully engage the intersection of race, ethnicity, power, and culture in order to achieve clarity, gain understanding, and get results.

The Urban Project International is a leadership development platform to train and empower tomorrow's leaders via training, programming, and partnerships with NGO's in Los Angeles and Sao Paulo's at-risk communities to accelerate and augment the mission of those existing worksConsulted and advised President of Athletes In Action - Brazil and executive staff in maximizing the Urban Project in BrazilCoordinated partnership and resource networks in Brazil to implement and maintain the development strategy of the Urban Project International for marginalized communitiesTo date: 200 NGO partnerships secured and 2,000 volunteers developed across 19 states in Brazil The Urban Project Work In Brazil is now self-sustaining and autonomous

Give leadership to field staff: NCAA, Major League Baseball, NFL, NWSL, MLSDevelop and grow our staff's intercultural competency, proficiency, and adaptability; demonstrate stated proficiencies, competencies, and adaptabilityLead in championing oneness and diversity in each sphere of responsibilityCoordinate strategic planning and collaboration between field ministries and across all ofAthletes in Action, including Catalytic and Capacity Accelerator DivisionsPartner with greater Cru organization and other divisions within Cru to accomplish org objectivesWork closely with Executive Team members to develop organizational strategic plansHelp create a culture for AIA to most effectively go after the missionRecruit, Train, and Equip (alongside LD) leaders ready to deploy and activateDevelop financial resources to support the workModel and align staff to the Mission, Vision, and Values of AIAActively raise and maintain financial support necessary to support compensation, benefits, andministry expensesOTHER FUNCTIONS Demonstrate and model personal spiritual discipline and develop an environment on the team where individual team members grow Personal development - engage the Staff Development process; creating and implementing a Personal Development Plan (PDP) addressing growth areas Actively grow in intercultural competency Related duties/special projects as assignedSUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES Coordinate the following supervisory responsibilities to the following: National Campus Director Executive Director of Pro Ministries Pro Soccer Director in accordance with the org policies and applicable laws, including: interviewing hiring training planning assigning and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Athletes in Action – Los Angeles is a holistic, development platform, in partnership with the University Of Southern California Athletic Department and the University Office Of Religious Life Athletes In Action - Los Angeles exists to showcase comprehensive personal development and leadership innovation; reflecting the excellence required to maximize opportunity relative to our commitment: to bring Hope to the World via the platform of sport

Orlando, Fl, Us

Provide strategic counsel and expertise regarding cultural proficiency development processes and architecture for domestic and global initiatives; Culture Consultant to the CRU Global VP

Orlando, Fl, Us

Founder of The Lenses Group: providing domestic and global cultural proficiency, adaptability, and development platforms for high performing teams, organizations, and individuals – functioning as a shared service for both Athletes In Action, 400+ staff worldwide, and its global parent, CRU: 30+ divisions and 10,000+ staff worldwideThe Lenses Group serves as a Global Cultural Proficiency Platform - an in house consultancy Created global development cohort of 60+ trained facilitators Crafted an executive team Oversee $200,000 budget to the 30+ divisions under global parent: CRU Designed Cultural Proficiency Curriculum Initiated and led cultural change strategy for Global Parent: CRU Developed metric-based, scorecard for entire organization measuring cultural diversity Developed organization dashboards measuring the level of cultural change

Orlando, Fl, Us

Senior staff leadership development platform for organizational leadership candidatesDesigned programming for holistic leadership development

Bloomington, Illinois, Us

Mitigate loss to the company relative to riskRisk AnalysisContract AnalysisSettlement NegotiationsLegal Analysis

Master Of Science, Sol Price School Of Policy, Planning, And Development

Graduate Studies - Theology

Business Administration, International Marketing

Qualified Administrator, Intercultural Development/Intercultural Conflict Assesment & Development