EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

CREATE-LEARNING-Team-Building LLC – Buffalo, New York
Adventure Consultant

• Consult with Corporate and Business Clients on ways to build and strengthen teams within their organizations.
• Present Experiential programs to Corporate, Small Business, Universities, and classrooms.
• Facilitate off-site and on-site meetings with business clients. Covering topics of Goal Setting, Strategic Planning, Leadership Development, Inter and Intra office Collaboration.
• Teach, Facilitate and Consult with organizations on the topics of Emergent Leadership: Leading Millennials Effectively.
• Create and Facilitate with University and Corporate groups on the topic of Global Team Development. Using “Virtual TeamBuilding” leading, facilitating and teaching experiential activities to globally dispersed participants.
• Consult and Facilitate with Universities, Schools, and Corporate Clients on Enhancing and Creating Wellness Programs. With an emphasis on Reflexology.

Beaver Hollow Conference Center – Java Center, New York
Adventure Consultant
Team Building and Recreation Director

• Authored & Designed Team Building Program Book - used for promotional materials for the Conference Center

• Create and Lead corporate groups through a multitude of experiential based activities designed to develop communication, leadership, management skills, problem solving and cooperative skills
• Engineer, Create, and Maintain High and Low Elements on Challenge Course
• Recruit, Train, Evaluate facilitators for Corporate Teambuilding groups
• Develop and maintain relationships with group contacts to ensure results oriented workforce development programs
• Work Closely with sales coordinator to schedule Corporate Teambuilding Programs

Robert M Cooper 4-H Leadership Center – Summerton, South Carolina
Clemson University Youth Learning Institute
Outdoor Youth Development Program, Director of “at-risk” Programming 

• Oversee Alternative High School education curriculum in accordance to South Carolina Board of Education Standards
• Recruit, Hire, Train, Evaluate educators for Alternative High School
• Educate “at–risk” youth grades 6 –12 in the areas of Biology, Chemistry, Ecology, and Environmental Science
• Create and implement group initiatives to foster trust and compassion for adults, fellow students as well as their community
• Supervise and assist on community service projects on campus and within the community
• Create mentoring programs matching students to successful people in the community

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Environmental Education Summer Camps, Conservation Educator 

• Supervise ten to twelve campers on a 24 – hour a day basis
• Instruct campers in core environmental science curriculum, outdoor skills, hunter safety training, and recreation
• Create and implement special programs based upon knowledge of environmental science and conservation ethics

EDUCATION

• Biology with emphasis on Ecology and Field Biology, Paul Smiths’ College – Paul Smiths, New York 

APPLICABLE EXPERIENCE

New York Leadership Educators Consortium
• 5 Experiential Activities to Teach Leadership- These hands-on activities will teach leadership styles and illustrate to participants the power of implementing hands-on learning mixed with theoretical learning into your curriculum. All five experiential activities can be adapted and used to teach what leadership styles are effective, when they are needed and useful. Participants will learn about emerging processing techniques that deliver the greatest learning possible to multiple learning and leadership styles. Participants will leave the workshop with a full experiential program design, set up, processing (de-brief) write-ups and a special gift for attending.

Association for Experiential Education: North East Conference
• Empowering Work Teams: Trends and Methods in Workforce Development - The changing world of work in a global economy means that facilitators need to create a positive learning environment for corporate & adult audiences. This workshop will include methods to empower work teams and develop self-directed employees. Participants will leave the workshop with new ways to lead experiential activities while in an indoor meeting or conference facility as well as an awareness of the new trends in the workforce development field.

Western New York Student Leadership Conference
• Hands on Team Leadership - Highly interactive, hands on workshop to empower participants to see how personal leadership affects groups. Topics of Self-Directed vs. Other Directed behaviors, self and team reflection, as well as personal leadership styles will be covered. Participants will learn about personal leadership and team leadership through interactive experiences.

The 2nd Annual Work-Life Jam Session, Workshop Presenter
Buffalo, New York
• Hands-On Leadership – Workshop provides hands-on initiatives to re-engage personal and professional passion by discovering and defining what encourages you in your career. Self-Directed and Other-Directed behaviors will be discussed. As well as, what makes jobs “miserable” and leads to employee absenteeism. This program will empower participants to view their personal behaviors and discover how it affects those around them in the workplace.

Cazenovia College - Freshman Orientation, Facilitated & Designed Freshman Orientation, 08/2007
Cazenovia, New York
• Designed and implemented experiential activities for ~450 Freshman Students
• Taught Cazenovia College Students (Orientation Advisors) how to properly facilitate and lead experiential activities for small groups of Freshman Students.

SUNY Buffalo College, Guest Lecturer – Buffalo, New York
• Guest Lecturer “Project Lead”, a leadership development organization for SUNY Buffalo College Students.

SUNY Buffalo College, Guest Lecturer – Buffalo, New York
• Guest Lecturer “Emerging Student Leadership Program”, Inspire Shared Vision, based on Kouzes and Posner The Leadership Challenge.

SUNY Brockport College, Guest Lecturer – Brockport, New York
• Guest Lecturer “Adventure and Challenge”, a class for education majors to learn experiential education activities.

SUNY Brockport College, Guest Lecturer – Brockport, New York
• Guest Lecturer “Beginner and Intermediate Jogging”, Lectured on Ultra-Running

Niagara Climbing Center, Climbing Instructor – Buffalo, New York
• Instructed Youth and Adult Rock Climbing Clinics

Ananda Montessori School, Educator – Charlotte, North Carolina
• Educator of Physical Science
• Educator of Environmental Science
• Coordinator of ecology camp summer programs

Grove Street Academy, Environmental Educator – Kingston, New York
• Worked with groups of “at-risk” students building a foundation of trust and compassion for each other and the environment
• Worked with a team of “at-risk” students to build a Nature Center on campus
• Trained students to be educators and curators of the Nature Center

Certifications and Selected Education

• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
• Leadership and Team Development – University North Carolina, Charlotte NC
• High and Low Ropes: Challenge Course Management and Facilitation
• Thesis Research; Global Communication in a Flattening World, skills that organizations need to create a global work team.
• Teachable Moments: Advanced Facilitation – High Five Adventure, Brattleboro Vermont
• Advanced Facilitation for Experiential Educators – Project Adventure, Morraine Farm – Beverly Massachusetts
• Challenge Course Adaptation for Corporate Clients – Project Adventure, Morraine Farm - Beverly Massachusetts