My primary role as a Life Coach at the Goodwill Excel Center is to promote continued studentengagement, serve as a student advocate, support student learning, and provide resources to help alleviate barriers that may impede educational progress. I am responsible for a caseload that ranges between 65-100 students. As a Life Coach I build empowering relationships with each student, hold coaching sessions, set goals, and implement strength-based strategies to facilitate ways in which students can overcome barriers and continue progress towards their diploma and career pathway. As a Life Coach I also work closely with other departments (Onboarding, Alumni, Instructional, etc.) at the Goodwill Excel Center to ensure students make successful transitions and receive wraparound support from point of entry through exit into a meaningful post-secondary avenue. My essential duties as a Life Coach are as follows:1. Guide students toward academic success through managing and monitoring student information (i.e. credits, state testing, etc.), developing class schedule, and assisting students in planning for graduation.2. Coach students from a systemic, trauma-informed model that is strength-focused, student- driven, supportive and motivating, and that focuses on setting tangible, realistic and measurable goals.3. Implement attendance and retention strategies that are designed for individual student relevance that are hands-on, involve contextual learning, experiential education, and include proactive intervention, wraparound support-building, community referrals, and daily interactions with each student.4. Intervene proactively and in a positive manner to address student behavioral needs that arise through early-identification of potential risk factors, collaboration with staff, facilitation of restorative meetings, monitoring of behavioral planning, and encouragement of pro-social and career-ready student behavioral.

Work with youth, ages 6-17 years old, in treatment settings who have suffered abuse, neglect and trauma. Provide holistic trauma informed care focusing on safety well-being and healing. Supervise daily activities and recreational activities. Mentoring youth on making good choices and learning healthy living.

Guide interested BSA Scouts in completing their Merit Badge, ensuring that they meet the requirements for proper completion and advancement.

Lead a group of 5-6 girls in the Pack's STEM and charitable programs. Work with other den and pack leaders to initiate and run programs for the pack.

Supervise and run company sales events by hiring, managing and teaching eligible youths in the area for the annual company summer tent sale event. Responsible for designing merchandising concepts for tabletop and kitchen products in Lifetime Brands showroom. Work alongside category managers in featuring products that yield higher sale percentage. Oversee visual merchandising team to enhance product marketability by using knowledge of appropriate lighting, color, balance and composition. Assist sales management team in creating attractive displays for trade shows, like International House Ware Show. Schedule and organize sales meetings with clients. Supervise and run company sales events.