✊🏾 First, Black lives matter. 

Chief Possibilities Officer at The New HX 

We prepare employers for people and people for employers.  


       ___________ Experience ___________

💼 Workforce Development 
💰 Economic Development 
🤝🏽 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging 
📚 Secondary and Postsecondary Education 
🤲🏽 Leadership 
🌍 Community Service
💪🏽Entrepreneur 

             ___________ I believe _____________

📍Equity must be centered, lived experience must be honored, and individuals must be included in their own solutions. 

📍Communities thrive when all sectors work together to ensure its members have access to education, training, and opportunities that lead to self-sustaining and meaningful careers and when businesses are supported to enter the marketplace with minimal barriers, grow ethically, and have transparency with their local government.  

📍Teams excel when they are supported, trusted, developed, and challenged within environment(s) of transparency, communication, and belonging.

📍Resources go further when shared and not siloed and solid partnerships and integration allow communities to serve more, better, and longer.

📍Planning for the future requires an examination of the past, conversations with our present, and minds that are not limited to the foreseeable future.

📍Partnerships are critical, and they must be based on mutual respect, open and ongoing communication, transparency, shared goals, and safety.

📍One-size does not fit all. There must be multiple on and off ramps to services provided to the community, businesses, and stakeholders to ensure successful outcomes and growth.

📍Transparency and integrity are foundational to all endeavors.

Email: Shawna@wearegrowingbigideas.com 

         ___ Ping me if you are talking about __

🤜🏽🤛🏽 Creating solutions to inequities 
📈 Creating and building wealth
🧬 Building strong families 
⛓ Breaking generational wrongs
♻️ Reinvesting in 
communities 
🍎 Health and wellness
🫂 Building belonging

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👋🏼 She/They
👩‍👧‍👦 Parent 
👑 Seventh-Day Badventist
🛣 US Nomad
💡 Ingenious 
💥 Fuser 
💢 Collaborator
👨🏻‍🤝‍👨🏾👩🏿‍🤝‍👨🏾Human Experience Journeyman
🍾 Champagne Curious 
🎢 Ideologically Adventurous

BTW, Black lives still matter.