Alexia Vernon
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Entrepreneur
Alexia Vernon is an ICF Certified Coach and the Owner of Catalyst for Action, a coaching and training company that empowers leaders to align their values with their strengths to build and sustain successful and balanced careers and organizations. In addition to coaching individual established and emerging leaders, she designs a variety of interactive, participant-centered coaching and training programs for corporations, small businesses, nonprofits, and educational institutions in such areas as leadership (executive, female, and Gen-Y), teambuilding, strategic planning, negotiation, conflict resolution, workplace diversity, innovation, public speaking, facilitation, goal setting, time management, career transition, work-life balance, gender issues, theatre for social change, and youth and community development.
She teaches Speech, Theatre, Women's Studies, and Interdisciplinary Studies at CUNY/John Jay College and New Jersey City University. Alexia has contributed a variety of articles to magazines, journals, and blogs and is featured in Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism (FSG, 2005) for her work on global feminism, war, and theatre. Her chapter, "Troubling Performance," is published in We Don't Need Another Wave (Seal Press, 2006). Alexia holds an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies with an emphasis in Women's Studies, Theatre for Social Change, and Physical Theatre from New York University and a BA in Women's Studies with a minor in Theatre from the University of Nevada Las Vegas. When not empowering her individual and group clients to the next level of success, she performs with the critically acclaimed The Stolen Chair Theatre Company. Visit her online at www.alexiavernon.com.