SheHive

From a very young age, Jessica VanValkenburgh has felt a strong calling to champion for women of all sizes to know and love their bodies.

Jessica is a Certified Body Confidence and Beauty Coach and the founder of Brazenly Beautiful LLC.  A former professional dancer, she loves to incorporate movement therapy and dance into her classes, coaching and workshops.

In addition, Jessica holds her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance as well as a Michigan License in Cosmetology and a Pre and Post- Natal Yoga Instructors Certification.

Brazenly Beautiful aims to focus on helping women, in all chapters of life, to transform the way they feel about their bodies and themselves.

Jessica is thrilled to finally share what drives her best work: you. She is moved by your journey, inspired your vision, and motivated by your goals. Lady Bondo is more than just a consulting business to Jessica, it's a value-driven vehicle she's grown to positively impact her community whether working with small business owners, non-profits, community organizations, or individuals with big ideas. Jessica believes the right communication can transform any relationship into a powerhouse of potential. 

Alice Fabiszewski is passionate about the power of music — especially singing — to build community and enrich the lives of all people. She’s the Executive Director of The Detroit Women's Chorus and a practicing attorney who has been singing since she could talk.

In the past, Alice spent many years teaching piano and voice from a private studio, and has held several church music positions. More recently, she sang for seven seasons with the UMS Choral Union, under the direction of Jerry Blackstone and Scott Hanoian, and was a member of the Chamber Ensemble which performed Charles Ives’ 4th Symphony at Carnegie Hall with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in May 2013. She is currently singing with Zion Lutheran in Ferndale and Opera MODO. When she’s not singing, she enjoys attending concerts, cooking, eating, gardening, crochet, and spoiling her two adorable grandchildren.

Alice is a proud product of public schools - a graduate of Trenton High School in Trenton, MI. She studied piano, voice, and theater at Central Michigan University and earned a law degree from Western Michigan Thomas M. Cooley Law School. 

Julie Hardy is an inspired feminist who’s passionate about influencing lives in a powerful and meaningful way. Through a YouTube channel and social media brand launching in Spring 2019 (Happy!Rituals), Julie works to inspire others to abolish the “I’m too busy” mindset from their everyday lives. Helping others to curate an intentional life is one Julie’s strongest passions.

When she’s not plotting to take over the world with other women, Julie works as a director at a boutique healthcare finance consulting firm, serving clients of all sizes across the country, specializing in physician reimbursement.

In her free time, Julie enjoys traveling, watching football with her husband of nine years, reading books of all kinds and learning from others on YouTube.

Jamie Thomson, Psy.D. Is a brand designer and consultant with a vision to transform brand identities for companies and entrepreneurs using psychology informed design and brand development.

Formerly a practicing clinical psychologist, a journey of self discovery led Jamie to her true calling of visual and digital design.  Now she combines her knowledge of design and her knowledge of psychology into a deeper offering for her customers. It really is the best of both worlds!

Through her brand design company, Brilliant Blue Designs, Jamie has guided companies and entrepreneurs through the brand discovery process, refining and realizing their brand vision.  Having moved from Florida to Detroit three years ago, many of her customers are Florida-based, but overall, her customers are far flung across the United States (the wonders of the internet!).  

Jamie has recently become a Business in Residence at the SheHive business office to have a home base for her virtual travels and to focus on local development of Brilliant Blue Designs. As a bit of a nomad (she’s from Ohio...but has lived in Australia, Virginia, Missouri, Florida and now Detroit), having a home base feels pretty amazing!  She is developing an exciting new program focusing more intensely on brand archetypes and how they translate into design and is planning to launch this program in early 2020.

Jackie has been in the patient advocacy game for over a decade and has established herself as an authority on chronic illness, patient-centric healthcare and patient community building. She’s worked with clients that span from independent coffee shops to healthcare companies to global corporations, but all roads always seem to lead back to helping individuals. In 2018, she finally dove in and started working for herself at Queen of GSD (Getting Shit Done), where she hopes to continue to use her powers for good to work with great women, powerful organizations and inspiring patients.

Angela is passionate about helping women with financial guidance, especially during life transitions such as divorce, widowhood, career changes and managing sudden wealth. Through her own divorce, Angela learned how daunting life can feel during challenging transitions. The anxiety of confronting financial matters can be paralyzing. Angela helps her clients navigate difficult questions and challenges during these life-changing events, empowering them with confidence and knowledge.

Angela specializes in analyzing the financials for clients contemplating or going through divorce, so that they are better able to navigate their current situation and create a plan to support their future goals. Angela is a member of the Association for Divorce Financial Planners (ADFP). She volunteers her expertise educating women facing life-changing events. She was the founding Chapter Chair for the Divorce Alliance (recognized and provided by the Institute for the Divorce Financial Analysts). Angela earned her MBA from Walsh College and draws from more than a decade of experience in financial services. As an insurance industry professional, she educated financial advisors about how to develop plans that fit their clients’ specific needs.

Lisa Shackelford - Anderson is a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health & Wellness coach and health strategist for women. After overcoming a series of her own life and health challenges that are common to many women including clinical depression, postpartum depression, multiple surgeries, and fibroids, she decided to help others to take control of their life by focusing on and creating individualized strategies that help women be the best version of themselves through health and wellness. After learning how to create her own individual strategic plan and putting it into play, which resulted in healing her fibroids, depression, and even losing some weight. She decided to get her certification in Integrative Nutrition to become a health and wellness coach.

Lisa’s focus is to help women who are dealing with a lack of energy, low libido, and the aches and pains of aging due to perimenopause/menopause to live their healthiest and best life.

Lisa is a native Detroiter and currently lives in Detroit with her amazing husband, and two awesome sons David and Michael. She is also the caregiver of her lovely mother. She loves gardening, reading, discovering independent bookstores, has a love for coffee, hiking and traveling the world.

Carly Podzikowski earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Oakland University. With an open mind, she entered the workforce testing her caring passion for helping people of all ages and abilities. Her curious nature landed her working with children on the autism spectrum, youth day camps and after school activities, adult recreation wellness programming, and senior wellness coordination. Carly has spent over 10 years in the public sector with various municipalities in Oakland and Macomb Counties.

In recent years, Carly learned that she has Relapse Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS). Through self-education and advocation, connecting with people who have MS, storytelling through writing, and living authentically, she has learned to thrive with this chronic illness – thanks in large part to her participation in a wonderful clinical trial for now-FDA approved Ocrevus!

Carly loves connecting with people on deeper levels over LOTS of good coffee (or a craft brew) about the real stuff: Emotional Intelligence, Clifton StrengthFinder results, Myers Briggs (she’s an INFJ), all forms of art, books and podcasts. 

Carly believes vulnerability is contagious. Her favorite quote is, “Don’t be ashamed of your story, it will inspire others.” – Unknown.

Lori has spent 25+ years of her career helping companies and brands create connected, positive relationships with people (aka consumers). She’s worked with companies - large and small - to help them drive sales results through business development, digital marketing and customer service.

Now in pursuit of a long-time dream of a “laptop lifestyle,” Lori left corporate America in early 2018 and co-founded PopSpeed Digital Marketing with her husband, Ron Wingard.

Lori has co-authored  two books about connecting with customers so that they become loyal fans. The first, Who’s Your Gladys? How to Turn Even the Most Difficult Customer into Your Biggest Fan is currently in print in both English and Chinese. In May 2016, the second book, Taming Gladys! The Busy Leader’s Guide to Creating Fierce Customer Loyalty, was released and became an Amazon bestseller in the customer service category in Canada, Germany and the U.S.

Inspired by the quote, “she designed a life she loved,” Christina Chateauvert, Ph.D., has created her life as a design thinker, educator, and creativity whisperer. Her personal mission and passion is to educate others in using human-centered design to discover solutions for their business challenges and adopt design thinking mindsets in their leadership styles.

Christina also enjoys exploring how design thinking can be used in the areas of career and professional development. She participated in IDEO’s (a global design firm) six-month fellowship in 2017 to continue to strengthen her coaching skills in human-centered design. Past work experience spans multiple industries and focused on career development, instructional design, talent management, and user experience strategy.

In addition to currently working in the automotive industry, Christina instructs in Wayne State University’s Learning Design and Technology program. She also holds a doctoral degree from the same program, a masters in Training and Development from Oakland University, and a masters in Writing and Publishing from Emerson College. Her research interests include creativity, self-efficacy, reflective practices and qualitative research design.

When she’s not at the SheHive, Christina is busy laughing with friends and her mom, reading non-fiction books, and enjoying time with Emma, her Maltese Pomeranian dog.

A quote included the words: “inspirational, wise, and humorous”, all qualities to which I aspire.  To them, I will add: “acts with grace and dignity”.  By age I am officially a crone - a wise woman – and that is true, sometimes.

I am a happy mother and grandmother, rescue dog mom, gardener and lover of old British sports cars. In my work, I am an organization development consultant, with global experience in enterprise organization change.  I am the president and principal consultant with Hansen Jones Associates, LLC, a coaching and consulting organization serving clients in SE Michigan.

My consulting work has included complex culture change initiatives for clients in automotive IT, healthcare and financial services technology. Coaching leaders to embrace their role in defining and sustaining organization culture is an integral part of guiding successful organization change. My coaching practice is dedicated to helping clients deepen their self-awareness, build their strengths and practice strategies to grow as effective leaders.   

I have a MS in Organization Development from Pepperdine University and an MBA from the University of St Thomas in St Paul, Minnesota. I am a member of the Michigan Council of Women in Technology (MCWT), Women Officials Network Board, and a proud Keyholder member of the SheHive.  

I was elected the [first woman] president of the Franklin Village Council in 2016 and have a strong interest in supporting women to move into appointed and elected leadership positions to enable positive change in our communities.  

Dr. Corinne Rogers strives to help individuals who struggle with compulsive overeating challenges, spiritual questions and the anxiety and depression that often accompany life’s dilemmas. In her work as a licensed psychologist, Corinne helps people deal with the day-to-day planning and behavior changes needed to manage food addiction while simultaneously delving into and solving the unmet emotional needs which fuel overeating behaviors.

Corinne also helps women develop the ability to manage relationships, confront challenges, regulate emotional states, change unconscious habits, cultivate feelings of self-worth and lead a life wherein they feel more powerful and effective.

Connect with Corinne at www.corinnerogers.com

Robin Breckenridge is an educator, public speaker, certified relational advocate and professional coach.  Robin has a Bachelor's Degree in Education, a dual certification Master's Degree in Emotional Impairment and worked in Education for over 10 years.  While teaching incarcerated juveniles, Robin had a profound experience of witnessing how our attachments in childhood shape the way we show up in all areas of our lives. 

Robin's background and experience in behavioral education coupled with her own experiences with challenging relationships lead her to find her true calling- helping people repair and restore relationships to self and others.  Robin works in unison with PIVOT- a relational alignment group, where she has helped coach many people struggling with relational challenges shift into a healthy relational alignment.  She is so excited to bring her experience and knowledge to the SheHive.

When she is not at the SheHive, Robin is busy connecting with her family, friends, and her little dog Palmer. 

Nessa has defined her success as helping other people achieve their goals. She spent over 15 years working at a variety of companies in the Human Resources, Organizational Development, and Corporate Strategy functions. She has worked with technology start-ups, non-profits, and Fortune 100 companies to help both the companies and the employees flourish. Nessa finds it invigorating to collaborate with a variety of different people to produce the best results. She particularly enjoys working with college and graduate students to decipher what they “want to do with their life.”  

In the past few years, Nessa has decided to focus her time working with women to achieve personal and professional success. She is the co-founder of Detroit ReBoot Accel, a career accelerator for women. 

You may have heard Nessa speak at a conference, on a podcast or at a professional event. As a graduate of the University of Michigan (B.A. in Psychology) and the Wharton School of Business (MBA in Management), she has also spoken at her alma matters numerous times to share her insights. 

Dominique helps people show up for themselves AND show up in their business. 

Through Love U Too, she provides what she calls self-acceptance and color therapy coaching, by helping people create self-acceptance strategies and shifts and then pairing those strategies with color therapy to really make them stick!

Through Show & Tell Academy, she helps entrepreneurs confidently post content that's engaging and builds authority using their personal stories. Having a background as an advertising creative while also growing a brand using social media has given her unique insight into what it really takes to connect people to a brand.

Dominique loves colors, all things lavender, tulips, lists, red wine, duck fried rice, leopard print, and her cat (who doesn't know she's a house cat), Conda! She is also mental health first aid certified.

Sonya Mastick owns Rise Above the Din -  an expert Social Media Marketing company who makes their clients vision a reality. With years of professional experience, Sonya takes a no nonsense approach to marketing.

Heather is a respected coach and speaker, having delivered talks at TechTown, Automation Alley, Walsh College, Michigan State of Success Summit, Revenue North Business Summit, Kelly Services Corporate, Southeastern Michigan Career Development Facilitators Association, Oakland School District, the Michigan Council of Women in Technology and more on how businesses and individuals can utilize social media to better serve and interact with customers and communities.

For over 20 years she has worked in the non-profit industry, the last 12 of which have been focused as a presenter, teaching career seekers to achieve success in their new field. She also works closely with businesses on talent acquisition and business support.

Heather serves on several boards and committees for her City, DDA and Chamber. Additionally, Heather owns and manages three community Facebook groups with over 20K members.

She is also a published author for The LeadChangeGroup. The book, Instigating A Leadership Revolution - One Person At A Time can be found at Barnes & Noble and on Amazon.

Heather is a local radio guest on 96.3 WDVD and Empower Radio in Detroit as well as a guest blogger, discussing topics centered around achieving career and business success.

Rachel Bellack is a teacher, an actor and award-winning director as well as a Credentialed Leadership Coach and Organizational Development Consultant. She uses Applied Improvisation and Positive Organization Development approaches to assist individuals, teams and organizations in areas such as innovation, communication, team building, leadership development, culture and change management.

After moving to the USA from Canada, she was invited to join the famed Second City as an instructor at the Detroit Training Center and has served as faculty and guest lecturer at a variety of universities. In addition to her role at The Improv Advantage, Rachel is the Director at Michigan Actors Studio and a Producer at ComedySportz Detroit. In 2018 she was invited to join the Forbes Coaches Council and contributes to their Leadership Channel.

Rachel’s articles on Improv for Business have appeared in Forbes and Training Magazine and she is a contributing author to the book “Words of Wisdom” along with Brian Tracy and Dr. John Gray (2014)

Currently, she is studying Positive Organizational Development and Change at Case Western Reserve University.

Lisa's personal mission is to join people on their journey to be the healthiest version of themselves physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

Lisa has a bachelor's degree in nursing and master's degrees in gerontological nursing and health education. She completed the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in 2013 and the Institute for the Psychology of Eating  in 2014.

When she is not at the SheHive, Lisa spends time with her husband and two teenagers and a fluffy black dog. She likes to read, work on intentional personal growth and development and is an aspiring art journalist.

Jane Pierce is a psychic reader, ordained minister and Reiki Master who has been teaching tarot, astrology, and energy work for over 30 years. She uses her decades of experience with tarot and astrology to show the deeper patterns that shape lives and empower people to create a more intentional future. Jane helps people better understand themselves and their life purpose because she believes knowing yourself is as important as knowing the future. Learn more about her at TarotJane.com

Throughout a decades-spanning career, crossing a myriad of job descriptions and industries, Kim Boudreau Smith has achieved success, because she pays attention to and develops Her Bold Voice. Kim provides support and encouragement, coupled with strategy and tools, to help other women develop their own bold voice. Kim holds space for high level achievers to tune in, employ self-care and set goals for how they want to show up in the world all through their voice.

Often referred to as a multi-media maven, Kim has experience on a multitude of platforms where she expresses Her Bold Voice. Performing as a dancer since she seven helps Kim feel comfortable on an international stage sharing her hard-won wisdom. Not only a former radio station owner and host of a weekly show to a global audience, Kim is a frequent guest on radio and podcasts all over the world. Kim has compiled and co-authored several books that have made their mark in the Amazon Best-seller arena. Through her fitness business she began recording video long before it was popular.  

Her training, coaching certification and corporate experience are the winning trifecta for having Kim mentor high achievers to a better media presence and asserting their own bold voice.

Kim is real, raw and undoubtedly honest about the challenges of stepping into your bold voice. Learn more on her website: Her Bold Voice. 

Ursula Adams, MSPOD, is a business leader, certified leadership coach and Organizational Development consultant on a mission to say “stuff” out loud first as a means to create comfort for - and give permission to - others craving to do the same.

A scientist and sage with an empath’s heart and intuition, Ursula’s unconventional approach marries the sciences of positive psychology and intentional change with empathy, intuition, a heavy dose of humor and - more often than not - a bit of glitter and glue.

As the Founder of the SheHive, Ursula helps women seeking social connection and self-empowerment discover “life on the other side of should” through classes, coaching and community.

Through The Red-Yellow Collective, her management consulting firm, Ursula helps Detroit-area organizations develop their top talent and engage their workforce through team building, individual and group coaching and in the design of change initiatives. Her clients range from small, Detroit-area nonprofits to large, Fortune 500 companies. 

Ursula holds a Masters of Science in Positive Organizational Development and Change, as well as certificates in Executive Coaching and Emotionally Intelligent Leadership from Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.

A former Detroiter (and always a Detroiter at heart), Ursula recently moved to Oakland county with with her husband, Bryan, and a gaggle of pets. She loves telling a good story, lunching with the ladies, road trips, pigeon pose, cherry cordial ice cream and an abundance mindset.