Mini Bio
Dr. Anita Davis-Defoe Official Website
Dishing out expert advice in Essence Magazine (September 2008, April 2009, August 2009) and Black Enterprise Magazine (March 2009, August 2009), Dr. Anita Davis-DeFoe is a leadership and gender expert, a business thought coach, who is a much sought after speaker and trainer inspiring audiences across the United States, Africa, Europe and the Caribbean. As the President/CEO of The Afia Development Corp, she is an organization development, quality and performance management specialist who has elevated the performance of organizations in a wide range of sectors; she has developed several social entrepreneurial ventures to pursue her passion for uplifting women and transforming organizations.
Dr. DeFoe is the author of A Woman’s Guide to Soulful Living: Seven Keys to Life and Work Success, a novel Tropical Escapes, and Follow Her Lead: Leadership Lessons For Women As They Journey From the Backroom to the Boardroom. The Execution Factor: 99 Strategies That Can Ignite Organizational Productivity will be released in 2010. As a columnist for SHE Caribbean (St. Lucia) magazine and Businessuite Magazine (Jamaica), Anita particularly encourages women to aspire to their highest potential in every area of life. She is a dynamic speaker and is looking forward to developing her Circle of 99 Woman’s Network to mobilize entrepreneurs worldwide.
Extended Bio
Dr. Anita Davis-DeFoe, a member of the International Coaching Federation, possesses an earned doctorate in management, with a concentrated focus in human and organizational development. She has over 20 years of experience formulating, implementing, monitoring and evaluating business, governmental, human services, educational and economic development programs for a wide range of organizations in the United States, Africa and the Caribbean. She is a leadership strategist and organizational business thought coach.
Dr. DeFoe, a Senior Quality Management Examiner, has conducted organizational assessments; developed and implemented quality improvement programs, strategic plans to identify organizational priorities, programmatic process tracking systems, conducted myriad stakeholder and customer surveys, topical focus groups; and provided technical assistance to organizations in both individual and group settings. She has extensive experience providing technical assistance to organizations in the areas of team building; process and change management; training; fund development; as well as the diagnosis and resolution of operational, service delivery and programmatic challenges.
Modeling visionary leadership, Anita has designed and delivered management training programs for diverse audiences around the globe to include entrepreneurs, government officials; faith and community based organizational staff and leadership; public school staff; venture capitalists; corporate executives; educators; quality and process managers; media specialists; workforce, human and economic development professionals. She has taught leadership and organizational development courses on the university level, and possesses significant experience and demonstrated expertise in entrepreneurship and program development.
Dr. DeFoe has elevated the performance of organizations on the state, national and international levels through the design and delivery of insightful seminars on strategic planning and business start-up, performance and quality management, leadership development, effective human capital utilization and process improvement. She has taught Organization Development, Principles of Systems, Leadership, Performance Management and Strategic Planning courses on the university level in the United States and the Caribbean.
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JR told Maliik that you are in Harrisburg today?
Dear Dr. Anita Davis-Defoe:
On behalf of the Marketing Research Committee of the Faculty of Business & Management of the University of Technology Jamaica, I would like to extend an invitation; we would like you to be a speaker at the upcoming 30th Marketing Seminar.
The theme of this conference is “Marketing of the Future: Packaging Today’s Dreams, Delivering Tomorrow’s Possibilities”. The conference will be held at the oceanfront Jamaica Conference Center on April 6, 2011.
A formal letter will ensue along with the profile of the University of Technology and the Marketing Seminar, to enlighten you about the history of Marketing Seminar and its impact. The letter will also include the specific areas under an outlined topic on which we wish you to speak.
We would be pleased and honored to have you as our speaker at the 30th staging of Marketing Seminar.
I would like very much to make verbal contact with you by next week (you can put a date in) to discuss this. Kindly respond to acknowledge receipt of this email and a contact number.
Yours sincerely,
Mr. Ainsley Cowell
4th Year Student
Research, Chair
Marketing Seminar 2010-2011
Marketing (Mjr.) Human Resource Management (Mnr.)
University of Technology, Jamaica