Professionally, Vanessa is a an MBA with over 30 years experience in marketing communications, project & operations management, accounting and executive-level business administration from the consumer products, banking, manufacturing, higher education, non-profit and HR consulting industries.
Since her departure from corporate America, Vanessa has taught standardized test preparation at the undergraduate & graduate levels and adult education classes, achieving a 95-98% approval rating from students. She has also developed a robust private tutoring clientele.
Since her departure from corporate America, Vanessa has taught standardized test preparation at the undergraduate & graduate levels and adult education classes, achieving a 95-98% approval rating from students. She has also developed a robust private tutoring clientele.
This adaptable, strategic thinker has a proven track record in delivering high quality work and managing multiple priorities. Her greatest strengths are building rapport quickly, communicating clearly, and achieving or surpassing anticipated results.
Creatively, Vanessa has written, published and performed poetry, worked on a fiction novel and was a member of two critique groups: Atlanta Black Christian Fiction Writers and the Faith Based Fiction Writers of Atlanta. In the near future, Vanessa plans to renew her literary quest by finishing her novel and pursuing a Masters in Fine Arts and Creative Writing after completing her doctorate in Adult Education.
Vanessa explains her gifts by saying “For teaching...God has blessed me with an insatiable thirst for knowledge and consequently the desire to share all I know with others. As for writing...God wanted to write but when He writes, mountains are formed. So as with the scribes of old, He inspired a hand small enough and a heart willing enough to hold the pen. ”
A native of Ohio, Vanessa attended the State University of NY at Buffalo, for her undergraduate studies and returned to Ohio to complete her graduate studies at the University of Akron. She currently lives in the metro Atlanta area with her husband and three children.