Faye E. Coleman, PhD
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President and CEO of Westover Consultants, Inc.
In October of 2007, WCI was named one of Maryland's Top 100 Minority-Owned businesses.Dr. Coleman was similarly honored in May of 2006 by the Maryland Daily Record as one of Maryland's Top 100 Women. She was also named one of Enterprising Women magazine's 2005 Enterprising Women of the Year. Among her other awards are the 2004 "Crystal Monument Award for Entrepreneurship" from the D.C. Chamber of Commerce, the 2001 "Woman Of Distinction Award" from Soroptimist International, and two awards from the U.S. Small Business Administration, the "Distinguished Award of Excellence" and the SBA Administrator's Award of Excellence. For three consecutive years, WCI was rated by the Washington Business Journal as one of the top 50 woman-owned companies in the greater Washington Metropolitan area. Also in May of 2006, SAMHSA Administrator Charles Curie awarded WCI the "Spirit of Recovery Award" for its outstanding work in providing behavioral health services to the survivors of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
Dr. Coleman is an internationally recognized trainer and planner with more than 30 years of experience in managing large-scale training, research, and evaluation projects. She has worked throughout the United States, Africa, the Caribbean and Europe with Federal, State and community-based organizations and with managers of small to mid-size corporations, associations, nonprofit groups, government agencies, and fortune 500 companies, designing client-specific culturally relevant materials and training programs that meet the complex and diverse needs of a rapidly changing global market place.
Among WCI's largest contracts are a 5-year, $30 million contract with the U.S. Air Force to manage a worldwide project that provides subsidized quality child care for dependents of active-duty and Air National Guard and Reserve members on 71 bases around the world, and a $12.5 million contract to identify and deploy over 600 behavioral health specialists to the Gulf Coast states to offer life-saving mental health counseling services to the victims of Hurricane's Katrina and Rita. WCI also implemented another contract with the Air Force to create and implement a worldwide public education campaign to heighten awareness among service member families about the availability and benefits of Air Force Family Child Care.
Faye serves on numerous professional and community boards, commissions, and civic organizations, including Chair of the MassMutual Women's Advisory Board for the West Financial Group, the Advisory Council for the Washington District Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), past Chair of Leadership Washington, Inc. and of the Mayor's Advisory Council on Early Childhood Development. Additionally, she serves on the Board of Trustees, Southeastern University; Board of Directors, Quantum Leaps, Inc. The Advisory Councils of the Center for Women's Business Research and Enterprising Women Magazine; and the Corporation of her undergraduate alma mater, Simmons College. Listed in Who's Who of American Women for her contributions in the fields of education and human development, Dr. Coleman holds a B.S. degree in Sociology from Simmons College, a M.Ed. from the University of Massachusetts and a Ph.D. in Education/Human Development from the University of Maryland.
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