Verna Mayers-Fakunle/Live BIG Strategist

Verna Mayers-Fakunle is an author, educational consultant, business concierge, coach, and professional speaker. She spent the last twenty-three years serving in various roles within higher education including teaching and administration and has recently left the industry to devote herself full-time to serving as the Founder and CEO of Inspired Strategies, LLC, a business and educational consulting firm.

Inspired Strategies were birthed out of her passion for strategic planning and her gifts to outline practical steps and processes to realize visions and goals. The company's mission is to help individuals, businesses and educational institutions align their purpose and strategic plans with actionable steps to achieve the transformational change needed to produce long-lasting, sustainable, and life-changing results.

She is the author of a new book to be released soon, Living BIG: Bold, Inspired, and Gifted - Shattering the Looking Glass to Release the Greatness Within. The book was birthed out of a true passion to see those who doubt their gifts, skills, and abilities shift their mindset beyond their own marred presumptions of themselves to unleash the beast of potential that resides in every one of us.

She hopes that by sharing her own story, every reader would be encouraged to reposition and realign their vision of themselves to take the action they need to achieve all they ever dreamed!

Verna holds dual undergraduate degrees in Management Information Systems and Business Administration with a Management Concentration from Limestone College. She MBA from the University of Phoenix and is working toward completing her Ph.D. in Organization and Management at Capella University (ABD).

She is an avid reader who also loves to travel, cook, and work with youth. She is the proud "parent" to her twenty-six-year-old niece and twenty-two-year-old nephew who she raised. She is married to her husband of four years, Olawale Fakunle and they reside in Columbia, SC.