Rachel Kodanaz Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co, Us

As a motivational speaker, author, consultant and facilitator, Rachel tackles today's challenges to help provide encouragement to those who are suffering a personal loss or set-back. Through her unique blend of realism and clarity, Rachel provides her audiences with great insight of how to embrace the challenge and create a meaningful plan to live life to its fullest."Together we can find hope, a new direction and a will to live life to its fullest." - RachelSample Presentations:Most Popular - Embracing Life’s Challenges; The Expected and Unexpected - Taking Charge when a Crisis Occurs - Being the CEO of your life! - Living with Loss One Day at a Time – Learn. Laugh. LiveWorkplace Challenges - Grief and Loss in the 21st Century: What really happens in the Workplace - What is trending in the workplace: LIFE!!! - Challenges, Obstacles and Compromise dealing with hardship in the workplace - Supporting Employees: Maximizing Coordination between Employee Assistant Program & Human Reasources - The Elephant in the Room - Bereavement PoliciesWomen Topics & Work/Life Balance - Being the CEO of your Life! - Taking Charge when a Crisis Occurs - Juggling Work, Home and Family - While Counter Intuitive, Take Care of you FirstGrief and Loss - Living with Loss, One Day at a Time - Facing the Unimaginable: Following the Terminal Diagnosis or Death of a Loved One - Finding a New Path with Purpose and Passion after a loss - Cleaning out the closets: What to do with the personal belongings - Taking care of you first! Family CaregivingJust for fun - Tips & Tricks for Feeling Confident at the Podium - Trash versus Treasure: Cleaning the Clutter - Training for an Ironman and Still Having a Life

Finding Peace, One Piece at a Time:Personal possessions tell a beautiful story of a person’s life. Finding Peace, One Piece at a Time helps to capture and share these stories by providing tools for how to thin, repurpose, and redistribute these possessions so they continue to be with us today and for future generations. Living with Loss, One Day at a Time:Living with Loss, One Day at a Time offers daily encouragement to individuals and families who have lost a loved one or is experiencing any adversity. The 365 daily thought-provoking ideas provide hope, optimism, introspection, and self-discovery.Grief in the Workplace:A comprehensive guide for being preparedGrief in the Workplace offers a wealth of knowledge and expertise to support those who have experienced a significant loss or death at work. By providing tools and practical advice that help manage expectations, this handy and comforting guide enables employees, Human Resources, and Employee Assistance Programs to embrace and address the loss effectively and compassionately.Available for purchase - www.rachelkodanaz.com, www.amazon.com, www.bn.com and other booksellers. For Presentations: Contact Rachel@rachelkodanaz.com

Vail, Colorado, United States

Vail, Colorado, United States

Enhancing Vail Mountain Guest experience through safety and knowledge of the mountain. Assisting Ski Patrol with injuries, crowd control and safety.

Greater Denver Area

The mission of the Colorado Book Festival is to celebrate reading, writing, literacy, ideas and author-to-reader connection by bringing together those who write books with the people who love to read them. The day-long program is free to the public, featuring authors across multiple genres and topics, showcased in workshops and panels for readers who can also tour the iconic architecture of Denver’s library, including its massive art collection, and also meet and talk one-on-one to authors bringing their autographed books.http://coloradoauthors.org/events/colorado-book-festival-2/

Greater Denver Area

Founding member of HeartLight Center, a not-for-profit center, where people can learn about the process of grief and be supported though that process. Broad scope of responsibilities included strategic planning, marketing, budgeting and expense control, program development, fundraising and donor cultivation. Developing and chairing major fundraising events.

Greater Denver Area

Managed The Road Ahead Campaign ($34 million Capital Campaign) supporting numerous phases of the National Jewish Health Strategic Plan including the building of a new clinic and new research facilities and programs.• Implemented and managed taking the campaign from post-public launch through building opening and campaign completion.• Established solicitation priorities, managed prospect lists and research, develop and executed targeted cultivation plans and solicitation strategies.• Managed the capital campaign fundraising budget in concert with the Vice President.• Ensured donor acknowledgement, stewardship and public recognition, as appropriate.

Greater Denver Area

HeartLight Center, a not-for-profit organization founded in 2001, provides affordable grief support and education for adults in our community who are experiencing the pain and sorrow following the death of a loved one. Offered in group sessions, our work provides participants with the community and insight to gain the strength and peace they need to effectively move forward with their lives.HeartLight provides affordable education programs for professional and volunteer caregivers in our community who are working with those who are grieving.

Columns - Grief in the Workplace, Widowhood

Kansas City, Mo, Reston, Va

Led data architecture functions within Information Resource Management division of major telecommunications provider. Provided guidance and direction in defining the data architecture strategy for individual projects and the organization as a whole. Worked with senior management, technical and client teams in order to determine data requirements and best practices for advance data manipulation, storage and analysis strategies in an object-oriented environment.

Denver, Co

Business Systems Analyst for major telecommunications provider. Served as the conduit between the customer and the solution development on enterprise-wide projects administered by the Project Management Office (PMO). Additional responsibilities included defining, documenting and managing the project requirements. As a part of the team, also helped identify ways that the business requirements process could be further enhanced, assisting with the development of the organization's requirements policies, procedures, and tools.

Joined this distinguished consulting firm and entered the Systems Engineering Development (SED) Program in Dallas, TX, specifically focused on the Blue Cross / Blue Shield Division. Responsibilities included software development and system administration support for enterprise-wide application projects. In addition, contributed to the creation and delivery of software technical documentation for each software release cycle including: software requirements specifications, version description, test planning and system overview documentation.

Emergency Medical Technician

Bachelor Of Science, Business Administration/Computer Science