STEP UP Your Leadership…
STEP UP Your Results
Leverage two decades of practical international experience leading teams to help you develop your leadership, increase your productivity, and improve your communication.
How Valued Are Your Leaders?
Learn the seven steps you can take to achieve greater growth and influence from your leaders and for yourself.
Speaking
Engage, empower and energize your audience to action through inspiring keynotes, and interactive workshops on leadership, communication, and productivity.
Training
Challenge, equip and transform your teams through hands-on workshops and creative activities in leadership, communication, and productivity.
Coaching
Identify your blind spots, breakthrough barriers, and achieve your goals through one-on-one coaching and, assessment tools in leadership, communication, and productivity.
About Me
Hello, I am Velma. I am a Bahamian-American best-selling author, Certified Leadership Coach, and Business Strategist. But those are my official titles.
The truth is I work with leaders just like you, to transform your teams into valuable leaders who get meaningful results.
I love to help leaders grow and build productive teams so their business can grow. My core philosophy of leadership is this:
Leadership isn’t about building great companies, it’s about building valuable leaders who build great companies. – Velma
When we get this part of leadership right, results happen. I’ve used this same approach to help leaders just like you, transform their teams into valuable leaders who get results, through with my proven 7 Step System.
I hope you’ll join me.
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What My Clients Say...
Velma is an exceptional speaker, insightful, and engaging. She also offered me some of the best career advice in our first 30 minutes together. Her positive attitude will rub off on you I promise.
If you want to start your day with a bolt of energy that blows coffee away – CALL VELMA! Within minutes of hitting the stage, she had 6—donor relations professionals on their feet and thinking differently about communication styles.
Her presentation was FANTASTIC! The audience was engaged from start to finish. Velma’s style is relatable and authentic. She ended on a high note that had me dancing in the aisle!
Velma has been an invaluable coach, consultant & facilitator for a group looking to collaborate on growing our membership clubs. She brought the right mix of her own expertise, drawing out best practices from the participants.
We hired Velma to speak to our chapter leaders on membership and it was FANTASTIC!
Velma – thank you for the fabulous presentation you gave to our members! They are still talking about it.
A Few of My Valued Clients
Contact Me
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