Career transition coaching, business productivity, innovation consulting, experiential learning consulting

Renee Poindexter is the founder of Living the Potential Network. She is an accomplished teacher, facilitator, coach and consultant. Renee has worked with several Fortune 500 companies, including: Owens Corning Fiberglas, Pitney Bowes, Nellcor Puritan Bennett, Homedco, Aegon, IBM, Credence, and Intel. Her experience in the industries of technology, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, business services, advertising and with non-profit organizations has given her a broad perspective in developing marketing strategies, negotiation, consensus building, sales development as well as in building leadership teams.

Renee has a BS in Education and many certifications from American Management Association, Neurolinguistic Communications, Zenger Miller and the Empowerment Technology Corporation. Her core competencies have been developed through: having owned and operated her own advertising business in Tucson AZ, being a part of a start-up high-tech company in Portland, OR, developing continuous improvement programs in healthcare in the beginning of the managed care movement in California, designing a Business Solutions Series for the County of San Bernardino, as well as over a decade of experience in the areas of sales and marketing management . Her desire to teach and facilitate continues as she works with businesses and education to custom design programs that meet their objectives. Combining her business experience with her knowledge of education, she has developed a learning model which engages the business and educational stake holders into the design of projects which inspire learners of all ages into real-world problem-solving.

Her vision of creating learning communities has been forged directly from her association with the Wondertree Foundation, and her work with founder Brent Cameron. Through her consulting work with Brent and his team, who are in alignment to bring the work of natural learning as the essential process for life development to the world, she has continued to practice the principles with groups of teachers, mediators, executive teams, and technology leaders. She has a view that business and education organizations are all experiencing a transformation and that the essential design elements (which they hold in common without awareness due to language challenges) must begin with a shift in managing the greatest potential-humans. Communities of practice, based on relationships, will unleash the solutions to some of our biggest problems. These communities will help re-invent the way we learn and will facilitate sustainable solutions that are waiting to be discovered.

Renee’s use of technology to improve learning and work flow has resulted in consulting in the software industry by assisting schools with the integration of technology as an interdisciplinary tool and with businesses who need to re-invent their management systems.

Learning how to be effective communicators in both the selling and negotiating realms is an area of Renee’s expertise. She provides an interactive environment where participants can re-discover and refine their abilities to be better listeners, collaborators and win/win negotiators. Leading and managing teams is integrated as a part of the long-term strategies Renee offers her clients.

Thinking outside of the box: Renee created a marketing company called MetaSource Network, which worked with the Wondertree Learners who developed a software solution called PowerSmart. This program’s sponsor was BC Hydro, and the company they hired to develop the program was LearningWare Inc, which was formed by the learners, age 10-12. They were paid $75,000 to develop it. It’s focus was to educate consumers about conservation. B C Hydro was astute to think of hiring the team that could get the job done. Creating a new paradigm, they had the young learners design a program for 7th-8 grade students, so they could learn how to save electricity and negotiate with their parents on how the dollars saved could be invested to pay their way to university.

This partnership between business and students relates to interdisciplinary learning and project based learning which dovetails with business and their drive towards project management and program development. Learners want to model what business needs. A project like this created a stakeholder mentality for everyone involved. Natural learning leads to this kind of outcome.