Dethra U. Giles is an international consultant, best-selling author and highly sought after keynote speaker. She is also the founder of ExecuPrep – a global brand that provides coaching, leadership development and performance improvement in the workplace. She has worked with multiple industries with hundreds of clients and thousands of leaders worldwide.
For years, Dethra U. Giles has wholeheartedly committed herself to the study and application of leadership and personal development mastery. Giles derives joy from her work by partnering with clients to create outstanding results and be part of their success stories.
Dethra has also been a keynote speaker to clients from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Army Corp of Engineers and the Salvation Army which has also yielded impeccable results. She uses her formal business education and years of experience to motivate, empower and celebrate her clients as they achieve their desired outcomes.
Ms. Giles is the author of “Unstuck: Discovering Career Limiting Actions”, the soon to be released book “Breaking Good Habits™” and many other featured articles. Her books have greatly contributed to the success of many individuals and organizations in both problem-solving and goal setting, helping to maximize and maintain personal achievement and productivity. She has shared her knowledge as a contributing writer on human resources and professional development topics for Today’s Financial Woman, YBE, and iWorkWell publications. She has served as adjunct faculty at the Federal Executive Institute, Georgia State University, Mercer University and as a faculty member for Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Small Businesses and the Tory Burch Foundation.
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Ify Ifebi is a proud event junkie and social entrepreneur and the founder/CEO of vendorspace. She studied marketing at Howard University while simultaneously building her love for events. Her entrepreneurial journey straight out of college; she became notorious for hosting sold-out events on campus, which led to the opportunity to make her hobby, an actual profession: producing live events for the greater good. Having personally experienced the obstacles and challenges of organizing vendors at a variety of events large and small, nearby and out of state, Ify postulated a hypothesis that has become her passion: there must be a means to ease the stressful, frenetic facets of planning, organizing and orchestrating events, for planners and vendors alike. While fully aware of the stressful nature of events from her perspective as a coordinator, in talks with vendors, some common themes emerged between planners and vendors—and hence, vendorspace was born: a platform as simple and fun to use as Tinder, where harmonious, likeminded event-planners and vendors find one another quickly and easily. When she’s not working on vendorspace, you can find her at home working on her other “startup” – her 8-month-old son.
