What was that moment that gave you a new level of confidence or when the puzzle pieces started to fit together? For me it was my introduction to the Prudential Youth Leadership Institute (PYLI) training in Denver Colorado in the 1997. After years of working with young people in different settings, becoming a Certified Master Trainer provided me a great tool to assist the personal development of students. This comprehensive curriculum integrated leadership training, service learning, and community building in a way that I had not seen. For the next few years, I provided training throughout the country for hundreds of adult trainers and students, before founding Aspire in November 2003.

My vision was simple – build a dynamic training organization focused on developing the leadership skills of youth and young adults through engaging programs that would instruct, motivate, and advance their image of themselves to be as Marianne Williamson said, “powerful beyond measure”!