“I learned the most from teacher Heather.
She always encouraged us and taught us
to be brave speaking English.
Now I speak louder and I like learning English."
ESL Student
American Language Village, Taipei, Taiwan
"Ms. Grace truly leads discussions with enthusiasm. She has a remarkable ability to engage her audience in the topic at
hand and provide full and accurate information. She is truly an expert in her area - career planning and diversity issues.
Ms. Grace has demonstrated and proven her ability to reach and engage her audience in active learning. Her expertise and
wonderful ideas are an inspiration to all of us.”
Kimberly Richardson, Associate Director of Student Development
DePaul University, Barat Campus, Lake Forest, IL
“I witnessed Ms. Grace’s resourcefulness in event planning, her ability to engage, educate, train and motive a diverse
volunteer base, and her diplomacy in some very stressful situations. Ms. Grace has excellent communication and
organizational skills and I often heard from her staff how much they enjoyed working with her and appreciated her
management style. Additionally, because of Ms. Grace’s commitment to success, our teams educated and mobilized
citizens to get involved in the legislative process at more than 40 events in 17 states.”
Stephanie Olson, Membership Manager
Human Rights Campaign, Washington, DC
“Heather has a diverse repertoire of academic and work experience that makes her not only a gem to work with, but also
from whom to learn. Heather inspires those around her to back up their statements with research, to develop
professionally, and to try to see issues that impact our students from the student perspective.
These are gifts she brings to her work.”
KJ Hardy, Associate Director of Development, University of Illinois at Chicago
& Adjunct Faculty DePaul University, Chicago, IL
“I believe that is a most indicative trait of Heather’s-her exemplary leadership. Her leadership style is inclusive, thoughtful
and diplomatic. She is mindful of cultural diversity. She is bright, personable and honest.”
Anita Galli, Associate Director of the Community Training Association Project
Kellogg Foundation, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
“Heather goes above and beyond of what is expected of her to make connections with various students, staff and faculty in
order to understand their need and provide services. Her contribution to the success of the Career Center is outstanding.
Her leadership, coaching and advocacy has been superb. The energy and commitment Heather demonstrated was
exceptional.”
Mahelet Senbetta, Associate Director of the Career Center
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
“Heather is easily in the top 1% of the students I have interacted with in my 17 years of Higher Education Administration.
Her ability to influence and lead others is exceptional.”
David W. Parrott, Ed.D., Associate Dean of Students
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
She always encouraged us and taught us
to be brave speaking English.
Now I speak louder and I like learning English."
ESL Student
American Language Village, Taipei, Taiwan
"Ms. Grace truly leads discussions with enthusiasm. She has a remarkable ability to engage her audience in the topic at
hand and provide full and accurate information. She is truly an expert in her area - career planning and diversity issues.
Ms. Grace has demonstrated and proven her ability to reach and engage her audience in active learning. Her expertise and
wonderful ideas are an inspiration to all of us.”
Kimberly Richardson, Associate Director of Student Development
DePaul University, Barat Campus, Lake Forest, IL
“I witnessed Ms. Grace’s resourcefulness in event planning, her ability to engage, educate, train and motive a diverse
volunteer base, and her diplomacy in some very stressful situations. Ms. Grace has excellent communication and
organizational skills and I often heard from her staff how much they enjoyed working with her and appreciated her
management style. Additionally, because of Ms. Grace’s commitment to success, our teams educated and mobilized
citizens to get involved in the legislative process at more than 40 events in 17 states.”
Stephanie Olson, Membership Manager
Human Rights Campaign, Washington, DC
“Heather has a diverse repertoire of academic and work experience that makes her not only a gem to work with, but also
from whom to learn. Heather inspires those around her to back up their statements with research, to develop
professionally, and to try to see issues that impact our students from the student perspective.
These are gifts she brings to her work.”
KJ Hardy, Associate Director of Development, University of Illinois at Chicago
& Adjunct Faculty DePaul University, Chicago, IL
“I believe that is a most indicative trait of Heather’s-her exemplary leadership. Her leadership style is inclusive, thoughtful
and diplomatic. She is mindful of cultural diversity. She is bright, personable and honest.”
Anita Galli, Associate Director of the Community Training Association Project
Kellogg Foundation, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
“Heather goes above and beyond of what is expected of her to make connections with various students, staff and faculty in
order to understand their need and provide services. Her contribution to the success of the Career Center is outstanding.
Her leadership, coaching and advocacy has been superb. The energy and commitment Heather demonstrated was
exceptional.”
Mahelet Senbetta, Associate Director of the Career Center
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
“Heather is easily in the top 1% of the students I have interacted with in my 17 years of Higher Education Administration.
Her ability to influence and lead others is exceptional.”
David W. Parrott, Ed.D., Associate Dean of Students
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
What people are saying!
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"It was a great pleasure to work with Heather during the
initiation, planning, and completion of the First Annual
Huron Valley Earth Day Festival.
We were a small team with big ideas and with Heather's
leadership, communication skills, and positive energy we
actually created a very successful event.
initiation, planning, and completion of the First Annual
Huron Valley Earth Day Festival.
We were a small team with big ideas and with Heather's
leadership, communication skills, and positive energy we
actually created a very successful event.
We started planning on April 2nd and with Heather giving us our "next steps" we had volunteers, green
vendors/organizations, musicians, advertising, donations and a great community turnout of more than 500 in only 20 days!
This was a first time experience for me and at first it seemed a little scary to take it on, but with Heather's direction, we all
learned, we stretched, and we created a wonderful result!"
Linda & Charlie Crawford
Shaklee/AirSource, Creating Your Healthy Future