We Are Ready.
Annie LaVerdure-Weller
President & Founder, MSW, ACC
(Chippewa-Pembina)
Annie LaVerdure-Weller is a purpose-driven coach, consultant, instructor, and motivational speaker. She has over 20 years of experience working with amazingly creative, passionate, and emerging thought leaders who are looking to create exceptional lives, careers, businesses, and communities. Annie values and celebrates her clients and students' ancestry, accepts them unconditionally, and values what they bring to the table. Growing up poor as an Urban Indian not connected to her Native American community nor any career network, Annie had to build and create her own networks and community. She created her first company at the age of 23. She understands the intense struggle to find herself and the career that helped define who she was, both professionally and personally.
Based on her experiences and knowledge, Annie loves to create and teach workshops and seminars with our Government, University, Charter Schools, and Business partners and to our participants based on career development, productivity, and life balance. Annie always looks for new ways to spread her knowledge and how-tos to everyone. She also enjoys collaborating with other coaches, business leaders, and entrepreneurs.
Currently, she is the founder and President of the Leadership Lab. In 2018 Annie was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer and also has a private practice working with individuals and couples to navigate relationship challenges due to trauma, chronic illness, and life transitions. She also hosts a weekly podcast, Find Your Tribe. And is a proud member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and holds an M.S. in Communications and currently completed her M.S.W. Annie is also Complex-PTSD, Informed-Trauma, EFT, and CBT certified.
Nada Khalil, B.S., ACC
Vice President
Nada is an accomplished motivational speaker with speeches given in TedX and Model United Nations. She is a vocal supporter of raising mental health awareness and educating people on professional growth on social media, reaching a 100K+ audience.
Her 7+ years of experience supporting and coaching a wide range of diverse clients in the States and Egypt through personal and professional growth, her outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, and her background education in Psychology give her confidence in her ability to benefit her clients significantly.
Nada worked with a wide range of different clients. Her experience grants her multicultural competency which increased her level of self-awareness and gave her a greater comprehension of the divergences in race, ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic backgrounds, and/or political beliefs.
Nada is an inspired, committed, and hard-working individual who does not rest until her client’s goals are achieved.
Nada graduated from Portland State University with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology.