Joy is a speaker, coach, trainer, facilitator, and motivator, who focuses on engaging, encouraging, & empowering others to embrace their journey to JOY. She holds a Masters Degree in Human Resources, Bachelors in Organizational Leadership, a Diploma in Life Coaching, and is a Certified Mental Health Coach. Joy is also a Mental Health First Aid Responder and Trainer who is Certified in Advance Mediation. She has successfully navigated over 28 years in Human Resources in Corporate America and has combined those people/employee relations skills with her life passion to help others, help themselves. Joy has made a commitment to come alongside individuals, teams, groups of all sizes, as well as communities, churches and companies for intentional improvement and positive progress. Her positive and powerful personality allows her to stand before any audience with real life, relatable, tangible, honest, supportive, and motivational messages. She is known for bringing about change and accountability through her empowering engagement and emphasis on reflection and intentional progress. Since we are all uniquely designed and not everyone has the same journey, Joy emphasizes the concept of Just Own Yours! Understanding what we can control makes the difference, in making a difference and the ability to Just Own Yours...... "Just Own Your " (fill in the blank). Your potential, pain, problems, promise, positivity, purpose, etc. She also believes if you Just Own Your faith, favor, and forgiveness of self and others you will discover your JOY and grow in abundance! The ability to Just Own Yours is powerful. While life is not all about you, it does start with you and how you show up in life, one day at a time (heck, moment to moment sometimes).