Verna Cornelia Price, Ph.D., is the president of J. Cameron & Associates, an organization committed to empowering and motivating people to realize and positively use their personal power. Dr. Verna is an author, organizational consultant, motivational speaker, executive coach, and educator. Her professional experience includes teaching pre-school through 6th grade and working as a program director, senior marketing manager, assistant dean of women, director of leadership programs and college professor. In 2002, she created a Power of People Professional Development Process which equips businesses with tools and strategies to empower their employees to new levels of excellence through personal power and leadership. In 2005, Dr. Verna founded Girls in Action™, a leadership empowerment project for which she was honored in 2006 with an Ann Bancroft Leadership Award. In 2007, Dr. Verna and her husband co-founded The Power of People Leadership Institute™, a nonprofit organization committed to helping people overcome life’s obstacles while finding success in every area of life through personal power and leadership. In 2008, Dr. Verna was awarded the WOW Achievement Award in the category of individual champion of women for her innovation in creating programs and processes which increase organizational effectiveness and individual performance of women in the workplace. This past year, Dr. Verna was awarded the MN Black MBA Association’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award in addition to Women Venture’s Pioneer Award for being a trailblazer and a visionary in Minnesota on behalf of women’s economic success. She is the author of numerous research and educational articles and chapters, two best-selling books, The Power of People: Four Kinds of People Who Can Change Your Life (2003) and The Silent Cry; Dealing with Subtracters in Work and Life (2008); and her newest book, change your life in 30 days: a personal power change guide (2010). Dr. Verna is a Leadership Institute faculty member at St. Catherine University. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Administration from the University of Minnesota. She is married to Shane Martin Price and is blessed to be the mother of Justice Cameron, twins Cornelius Scott and Ktyal Liberty Amani, and Purpose Martinique.