Sawanda Middleton-Spinks Career Development/Community Relations Coordinator, Herzing University
Location:
Kennesaw,
GA United States Joined:
Oct 26th, 2009
Captivating, motivating and full of energy are just a few words that many describe this overall powerhouse of a personality!
Sawanda Spinks Middleton) is THE Career Development expert for individual achievers who are ready to discover what they love to do and manifest it into their ideal career! Sawanda is the CEO & founder of Born2Blossom, LLC. As an inspirational speaker and career coach, Sawanda takes her 10 + years of professional speaking experience and career development training to help inspire, empower and encourage others to pursue their passion!
Sawanda coaches and speaks to professionals of all levels helping to create a successful, and exciting career. She speaks nationwide to thousands of professionals and groups on topics such as Find Your Passion Within Your Job, How to Create Success in all Areas of Your Life, How to Turn Your Passion into Your Ideal Profession and The Job Diet Boot Camp: How to Lose the Job and Gain the Career You Love.
In 2001, Sawanda made the decision to finally pursue her passion in speaking. She has been hired at local universities to speak to high school students. Sawanda has spoken to thousands of students in classrooms and auditoriums and to countless organizations about the importance of fulfilling and living your career passion!
As the creator of The Job Diet: A Step by Step Jumpstart to Creating Your Passion into Your Career™ CD Coaching Program, Sawanda has quickly found an audience of professional women who are in search of changing their unhappy jobs to a fulfilling career! As a Career Coach, Sawanda gives individual attention to those who want to create a step by step action plan from discovering their passion to creating a career surrounding what they really love to do! Real action creates real results!
Sawanda graduated from Norfolk State University, in Norfolk, VA, where she holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. She is currently the Career Development Advisor for Herzing University in Atlanta, GA. During her downtime, she spends quality time with her family and friends and spends volunteer time educating and fund raising as the Georgia State Director for the non-profit organization, The Pediatric Hydrocephalus Foundation, Inc. For 4 1/2 years, her passion in funding a cure and raising hydrocephalus (water on the brain) awareness comes from her son, Ezekiel, who was born and diagnosed with this incurable medical brain condition.
Sawanda truly believes that every human being was born with seeds of greatness. It’s when those seeds are nurtured that people blossom into their true, passionate purpose! Once their greatness has blossomed, there’s no turning back and their passion has been ignited!
I love what I do with Herzing University, however, my ultimate goal is to have more freedom to travel, with my son, as an International Full-Time Motivational Speaker! Life is a journey and full of lifetime experiences that I will one day be able to show my son, through traveling.
With a full time career (that I love), a part time motivational speaking business, and a single parent with a special needs child, this year, I have been heavily involved with The Pediatric Hydrocephalus Foundation, Inc (www.phfkids.org) as the Georgia State Chapter Director. For 4 and 1/2 years I've been volunteering with this non-profit but my activity jumped a notch due to my son, Ezekiel (age 5) spending an entire month in the hospital, in January, due to his only treatment failing on him (a shunt). My child was near death while doctors had to revise his treatment (a shunt system) THREE times! It was because of that, that I joined the Founders of this non-profit to Washington, D.C. to be one of the main spokespersons to lobby Georgia Senators and Congressmen to become members of our Hydrocephalus Caucus. So far, Congressmen John Lewis became a member of our Caucus! With September being National Hydrocephalus Awareness Month, I created a Walk and Family Fun Day event! This event will take place Saturday, September 21st. It's purpose is to help raise hydrocephalus awareness and to help fund a cure. To date, we have 160 people registered to join us to walk and over $1,500. The goal is to have over 150 people attend and $5,000 raised.
http://www.active.com/donate/phfgafunday2013
Most Memorable Moment:
Taking on fear and trying out for the Miss. NSU pageant in 1995. I have never thought to do anything like that before and I was so scared of not being "pretty" enough or "smart" enough to compete. I didn't get the crown but I WON! I looked at fear in the face and won!! There was nothing I felt like I couldn't do after that! My motto: "Do what you fear, watch that fear disappear!" I still live by that motto!
High School: Spring Valley High School in Columbia, SC
class of 1994
Activities & Accomplishments:
I was the Vice-President of the FBLA club, a member of SGA, part of the Drama Club, that got me a role in my high school's play, "Raisin in the Sun" and I played volleyball my Junior and Senior Year.
Best Memories:
I truly believe that my speech as the Vice-president of the FBLA started my love for speaking! I remember stepping up onto that podium, in front of all of my peers and delivering my speech as if I WAS a motivational speaker! I didn't know, at the time, that THAT moment, that, defining moment, would change my life and change my career path forever! Everyone talked about that speech for days! So many of my teachers and even my mom (who came to support me) told me how powerful my speech was. I don't remember what I said, but I just remember speaking from the heart - which is what I do now.
Experience
I currently work with Herzing University
as Career Development/Community Relations Coordinator
I have 15 years of experience working in the
Teaching / K-12 Education industry.
