Washington, DC – Group Interactive, Inc. today unveiled a new membership based division of their company, ‘Global Partners for Innovative Teen Entrepreneurs’. The purpose of the organization is to bring independent youth centric organizations from around the globe together to collaborate and build better programs to support teens who are social, technological, environmental and entrepreneurial innovators.
The Global Partners for Innovative Teen Entrepreneurs will fill a huge void in the marketplace: lack of experiential, innovative AND entrepreneurial programs that exist for today’s technologically savvy and visionary teenagers.It will provide an infrastructure and network for organizations to connect and collaborate so that they can achieve both their individual and collective missions. Additionally, it will serve as a resource for corporations and schools that may need help coming up with “creative and progressive” programs especially for STEM (Science Technology Engineering & Math) Initiatives. Entrepreneurial teens will be strategically partnered with them to design the programs that speak to their peers.
“Across socioeconomic boundaries, my teens are designing and engineering pit motocross bikes, creating and testing natural alternatives for ADD/ADHD and Autism, trying to bring commercial high tech applications into the consumer space and creating anti-piracy awareness campaigns. It’s just a typical day,” says Shonika Proctor, Founder of the Global Partners for Innovative Teen Entrepreneurs. “The challenge in finding ongoing support for them is they often have ‘hybrid’ needs coupled with being a teenager. I have found that a lot of traditional youth organizations are intimidated and overwhelmed by today’s teens. We desperately need a collective initiative bringing together best of breed practitioners that include entrepreneurs, engineers and compassionate community leaders along with a 21st century vision.”
About Group Interactive: Washington, DC based Group Interactive is an experiential training design company with a primary focus on teen workforce development and entrepreneurship programs. To date, their books, programs, speeches and coaching services have impacted over 12,300 youth in the U.S. and in countries such as England, Canada, Singapore, Bosnia, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Teens enrolled in the Renegade CEO’s Coaching Program have established innovative niche businesses, written and published books, built companies from scratch to 4 figures per month, launched onto the speaking circuit and been the subject of a 1 hour TV documentary. They have won leadership and entrepreneurship awards at the national and international level and have been featured in major media outlets such as CNN, Black Enterprise Magazine, Business Week and Fox Morning Business News.http://bit.ly/globalpartners
Comments (2) Posted by Shonika Proctor on Friday, July 31st, 2009
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We are proud to announce that one of our Renegade CEO’s (and currently the only grrrl Renegade) Ms. Danielle Herb, ‘The Horse Listener’ and ADHD Conqueror is going to be the subject of a 1 hour TV documentary exclusively about her and her company. As if she couldn’t get any more famous huh? Over recent weeks a google search on her name has soared from 69,000 search results to 658,000!!! Renegades CEO Founder Shonika Proctor is so honored to be managing her brand development, strategic partnerships in the U.S. and abroad and her 2010 International Drop Your Reins Tour, whooop!
This past week has been over the top and filled with media highlights (inc 2 TV features), double digit partnership requests from around the globe and exciting news (including accepting a partnership with a Beverly Hills TV Production co. that represents 5 Major TV networks who want to build some TV shows around our teens…more to follow). Double Whooop! But the big news of the day centers around Danielle Herb who is the 2009 Yanik Silver Underground 5 Scholarship Award Recipient and 2008 Award Recipient of the Start Something Grant (Co-sponsored by Target and Tiger Woods). Having just landed her first major sponsor earlier this week, and landing on the front page of the Fernandina Beach, FL newspaper it seems that everything just keeps getting better for this small town girl with big, big dreams!
Danielle Herb, 15, is an inspirational speaker, author, pioneer and the the founder of the internationally recognized Drop Your Reins and the ‘Drop Your Reins Experience’, a Youth to Youth Program that uses natural horsemanship to give kids tools that will assist them in ways to overcome fears and challenges, develop healthy loving relationships, build trust, grow their inner confidence and self esteem. Clinics are hosted at the beautiful Cheers Ranch in Yulee, FL.
The documentary will be filmed live on Saturday, July 11, 2009 at one of Danielle’s Drop Your Reins Clinics. SearchAmelia.TV a North Florida based media organization that highlights news and happenings in Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach and Yulee, FL will be doing the filming. The central theme of the documentary will be about Danielle and some of the experiential teaching techniques she uses with ADD/ADHD and Autistic youth using equine assisted activities. If you are in the North Florida (Jacksonville, FL) area you can attend as a spectactor or participant. http://bit.ly/IuGlz
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You’ve always had the power…turn it on!
Comments (1) Posted by Shonika Proctor on Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Today is Canada Day…So Happy Birthday Canada! And in 3 days in the U.S. we will celebrate Independence Day. I thought it was timely to write about this today because earlier today Patricio and I spoke to an entrepreneurship class filled with enthusiastic 14-16 year olds at the William E. Doar Jr. Public Charter School in NE Washington, DC.
We were inspired by the youth who attended the school. It is a performing arts school and even though we didn’t get to see them doing their ‘individual talents’, it’s just the whole energy and culture that surrounds creative young people who are confident, comfortable and glad to be ’different’ or ’individualistic’. The class was attentive and they asked lots of introspective questions. To give you some idea of how much they were into it, we were scheduled to be there for 30-45 min and we ended up staying there for over 2 hours!!! We even got a chance to do some laser coaching sessions and without any prior preparation or knowing that we would be doing that, everyone came up with some really great ideas. We definitely hope some if not all of them we worked with today will actually pursue some of the ideas that they shared (and in the very near future).
This is how the life of an entrepreneur jump starts….fearlessly being YOU everyday in every way. Realize you have something special and of value to offer the world today that is truly unique to you. So don’t be afraid to OWN it!
Big thanks to Jamila White, The Ecommerce Diva (@ecommercediva on Twitter) for sharing the speaking opportunity with us. And also to Monique Riviere, the entrepreneurship teacher who hosted us today. Last but not least many thanks to all the young people who asked questions, sat in the ‘hot seat’ and openly participated in the presentation today. We appreciate your enthusiasm and are grateful to have had the chance to meet you all and share with you today!
Until next time…
remember that a true renegade ceo challenges not the limits of society….but the limits of oneself.
Comments (5) Posted by Shonika Proctor on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Over recent weeks a google search on her name has soared from 69,000 search results to 658,000!!! Renegades CEO Founder Shonika Proctor is so honored to be managing her brand development, strategic partnerships in the U.S. and abroad and her 2010 International Drop Your Reins Tour, whooop!
