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Alexia Vernon is attending Red Tent Women's Project's event

The Workshop Leader's Essential Toolkit: Learn to be an excellent workshop facilitator! at A convenient location in Manhattan

March 7, 2009 from 11am to 4pm

The Red Tent Women's Project is proud to present this fantastic opportunity for women who are interested in developing their workshop presentation skills, facilitated by the incredible Alexia VernonAre you a practicing or aspiring female trainer, educator, or artist looking for strategies and techniques to dynamize your leadership practice?In this 5 hour, hands-on workshop, we will cover such areas as:· Designing, implementing, facilitating, and evaluating a workshop· Leading with confidence,…See More

Feb 13, 2009

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What issues are most important to you?: Anything that falls under the umbrella social, political, economic, and environmental justice. Currently, very focused on leadership, business, women in the arts, education, and sustainability.

What kind of social activism do you engage in?: I partner with a lot of social entrepreneurs and nonprofit leaders, helping them lead organizations to success and social impact

What organizations do you love or work with?: I'm afraid picking would not be fair to my clients, colleagues, and collaborators

What books, music, films, etc. do you think educate and empower women?: I could continue this list for a lifetime. So I'm narrowing my list to ten, in no particular order.
1. Le Tigre
2. Grassroots by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards (look for me on pp. 159-160)
3. See Jane Lead by Lois Frankel
4. Push by Sapphire
5. Any performance by Lenelle Moise
6. Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti
7. Marjane Satrapi's books
8. Caryl Churchill's early work
9. 30 Rock
10. Nellie McKay

Career: what do you do or want to do?: Leadership and Millennial Coach, Trainer, and Speaker

What skills and interests to do you have to offer to others in the Red Tent Women's Project communty? This is your chance, so sell yourself!: I'll tell you how I can partner with you, and then you tell me when you are ready to have the life, career, and business of your design!

I launch emerging and evolving leaders across generations to align their strengths with their core values, vision, and mission to build and sustain successful and balanced careers and organizations. Through experiential, participant-centered coaching, training, and speaking programs adapted to meet the specific needs of each company, university, school, or association, I ensure that great people have opportunities to achieve great results. I enable clients to awaken to their vision for the future and collaborate with them on designing and implementing a plan that supports high achievement, personal growth, and increased professional and personal satisfaction.

A born entrepreneur, I launched my first business in sixth grade. I gave ballet lessons to my neighborhood friends in exchange for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. As a college sophomore, I won the Independent Means Business Plan Competition. Shortly after, I executed my plan for a nonprofit, young women’s leadership development after school program. I worked for nearly a decade in the nonprofit sector as a director, consultant, manager, educator, administrator, and artist, partnering with a variety of organizations to make an impact on the arts, education, women’s issues, and youth and community development.

When my partner proposed to me, I knew that while I could easily answer his question, I no longer knew if I could answer my own: What do I want to be doing with my life? I decided to enroll in Coach U, the premier international coach training school. I harnessed the chutzpah to stop whining and start redesigning my life from the inside out. I discovered that the question I needed to be asking was: Who do I want to be when I show up each day to my life? I re-awakened my dormant entrepreneurial spirit and built a coaching and training business to lead successfully, sustainably, and for the maximum possible social impact.

In addition to my work as a coach, trainer, and speaker, I have taught public speaking, sociodrama, improvisation, acting, intercultural relations, and women’s studies for several universities. I am published in We Don’t Need Another Wave (Seal Press, 2006) and featured in Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism (FSG, 2004). I write for the popular career blogs Damsels in Success and Brazen Careerist and perform with The Stolen Chair Theatre Company. I hold an MA in interdisciplinary studies from New York University and a BA in women’s studies from University of Nevada Las Vegas.

What would you like other members of this community to know? About yourself, about the world...anything (try not to be profane, though)!: You don't have to love Liz Gilbert or Eat, Pray, Love, but if you believe that the measure of a successful life is at all related to who you are each day you show up to it, please live this quote:

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings.
And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”

Happiness really is a journey, not a destination!

What was your "women really matter and I'm going to do something about it" moment?: I had just won the Miss Junior America pageant, planned to drop out of college, and decided to stay in college one last semester until I could save a bit more money to move to L.A. The only Gen. Ed. course I could get into was Intro to Race, Gender, and Class. Thank you Cheryl Radeloff for awakening my feminist consciousness and changing my life!