Be Inspired By Your Thoughts, Your Dreams, Your Actions ~Natasha Charles

I am passionate about:

• Consciously cultivating and maintaining the positive mindset
• Encouragement & Empowerment
• Resilience
•  The Creative Process / Creating A Life You Love
• Women's Issue's
• Work-Life Integration & Quality-of-Life

I have studied:

• Psychology (BA, Social Psychology focus, University of Pennsylvania)
• Higher Education & Medical Education (MSEd, diversity pipeline identification and middle class educational finance foci, University of Pennsylvania GSE)
• Business Essentials & Accounting and Finance (Certificates, The Wharton School)
• TESOL (Certificate, University of Pennsylvania GSE)
•  Non-Profit Fundraising (Certificate, University of Pennsylvania), and most recently
• Software Engineering (Certificate, Coding Dojo)
• Certified Professional Life Coach (Transformation Services)
• Executive Coaching (TJ Walker, Bob Berkowitz)

I have worked:

• 3 years at a nonprofit that taught individuals to start and grow small businesses, where I learned about entrepreneurship
• 15+ years in senior administration where I worked as a high-impact, dynamic leader and change agent in nonprofit administration, medical education, and higher education where I learned strong project / program management skills, and amassed a wealth of interdisciplinary knowledge. I developed administrative systems and processes, and worked as a part of a team on multi-year, multi-site, multi-million dollar projects.

In addition, I am:

• highly gifted
• highly sensitive
• an avid meditator
• a fitness enthusiast (the muscles are forming!)
• a New Thought philomath
• parent to one amazing, vivacious child, who is consciously cultivated - both left and right brain, to have a voice and know it has power, to make independent choices, to respect and be respected, to relate; relentlessly loved, supported, encouraged, believed in from the highest Self.
• an alumna of BLK Capital Management Corp, Inc. a student-led organization whose mission is to introduce undergraduate students of color worldwide to opportunities in the finance industry, as well as assisting entrepreneurs of color through their newly formed foundation, established with a generous donation from KKR, and passionate about the organization's mission and members.
• a Scholars of Finance mentor
• Co-host of the Wharton Alumni Association of Philadelphia networking breakfast
• One of 20 baton activators for Tererai Trent International. Raising $15,000 to support 22 students' (70% women) college education and one primary school in rural Zimbabwe
• Values of peace, power, beauty, love, light, life, joy