Established and facilitated Leadership Development Programs for aspiring community leaders
Coached individuals to improve their organizational, leadership and supervision skills
Adjunct instructor for University of San Francisco and Alliant University (formerly California School for Professional Psychology) in both bachelors and masters level organizational behavior and leadership development programs during the 1990s
Provided struggling nonprofit organizations and their boards of directors with strategic plans that have been implemented with successful results
Facilitated and developed Continuous Quality Improvement Systems for health care organizations
Managed a Dixieland jazz band www.riverboatjazz.com
MASTERS DEGREE in Human Resources and Organization Development, University of San Francisco
BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE, University of Washington
CERTIFICATION from National Center of Nonprofit Boards
CERTIFICATION from Inscape Publishing to administer DISC Personal Profile products
Woman of the Year 2005 for the City of Visalia, California awarded by the Visalia Chamber of Commerce www.visaliachamber.org
Rotary International Group Study Exchange Leader to Germany in 1997
Woman of Achievement Award, Business and Professional Women, 1997
Community Service Award, Proteus, 1994
Women of Distinction and Women Helping Women Award from Soroptomists International
Vicki's Family: Sons, Daughters-in-Law, Granddaughter, Life Partner and Louie Cocker
If you want the full support of people, you must get them into the act, the sooner the better. Everyone must help paddle the canoe.