COMPASS – Inspire Empower Connect – Achieve Life Balance…

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Filipino Festival

About Me

Vera Cornish is a trainer, facilitator, speaker and life coach. Vera has garnered a reputation of meeting her audience where they are and leaving them energized and excited about the future. Motivational, inspirational and thought provoking, Vera Cornish is refreshing.

In 1999 Vera launched Cornish & Associates Inc. Since that time she has facilitated presentations, provided strategic consultations and coaching services to meet the needs of corporations, government entities and non-profit organizations. Her client base has included Mellon Bank, The Hershey Company, Highmark Blue Shield and the Milton Hershey School. Vera was selected to co-design three curriculums on behalf of Penn State and the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. While her work has taken her into larger entities, she is deeply committed to the empowerment of each individual.

Vera is known as a convener, creating solution based platforms that include Work, Life, Balance: Real People-Real Solutions, The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast, The Heritage Breakfast and The Legacy Breakfast. Recent topics have focused on “The Next Generation” and “The Tenacity of Leadership”. She is also the publisher of the Urban Connection Of The Capitol Region, a newspaper dedicated to the changing demographics of Central Pennsylvania. Her commitment to community is exemplified by past board memberships on the YWCA of Greater Harrisburg and the Harrisburg Regional Chamber. A graduate of Leadership Harrisburg, Vera is a frequent presenter and now serves on the 25 Year Anniversary Celebration Committee.

Vera’s past employment has included Penn State University and an appointment as the first Director of Institutional Diversity at Harrisburg Area Community College. She is a graduate of Penn State with a B.S. in Education of the Exceptional Child and College Misericordia with a M.S. in Education, specializing in Multi-Cultural Curriculum Development. She is now a certified Life Coach.

It is Vera’s belief that her keen understanding of cross cultural relationships was formed during her childhood. The richness of the culture of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania coupled with the mosaic experiences of the North Eastern part of the state formed the foundation of who she is today.

Contact:

COMPASS
vccornish@aol.com

(717) 545-0299

2012 Women of Heritage Breakfast on March 16th at the Harrisburg Hilton…

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Filipino Festival

Sharrie Williams

Proud to begin announcing the dynamic women to take platform of the 2012 Women of Heritage Breakfast on March 16th at the Harrisburg Hilton.

We welcome international blues recording artist Sharrie Williams!!!
Don’t miss this life changing message!!

Individual tickets are available by calling the Harrisburg Regional Chamber
at 717-232-4099 — with Alana Cornish and 36 others.

About Sharrie

MAKING DESTINY DECISIONS!! This is the year of a New Me in God! This year I release God completely! I will allow HIM to maximize me, No Boundaries, No Limits, have your way with me Lord!! Sharrie Decrease so God can Increase!! This is the year of open doors and miracles in my life and my family! I expect a miracle everyday!!Sharrie’s unique style of “Rockin’ Gospel Blues” is surrounded by strong and powerful vocals and arrangements, with songs that grab your soul, like “Hard Drivin’ Woman,” “Travellin’” and “Blues Lover”. Sharrie touches souls with her talent and passion for her music, combined with her smoky, sexy and imitable style she always leaves her audience calling for one more song. She emerges with grace as a humble and rock solid professional, a talented songstress that stands on her own. “Having lived the blues, I sing to inspire people, Not to let the blues get the best of you.
“Sharrie Williams performances at the 2003 Pocono Blues Festival was incredible. She was at the top of my highlight list for this 3 day-3 stage National Blues Festival. Sharrie and her solid band, The Wiseguy‘s, were so well received that most of the customers came back several hours later for her second standing room only set.” – Michael Cloeren. Director of Pocono Blues Festival (Pennsylvania, U.S.)Mrs. Sharrie Williams Is the Voice! A galactic vocal force to be reckoned with, a ragging flame of fire that has been sprayed with gasoline, she has a message burning within her soul. Sharrie has a powerful voice, with a range that can reach and rattle the castle tower one minute, while soothing the soul of a crying child the next, she possess an unaffected nature, which gives her grace and a sensibility that pays homage to the great female artist of rock and blues without ever being imitative, in short, Sharrie Williams is the real deal, a true original. She brings you in, by singing her insides out, hearing her is a pure delight, but seeing her perform will make you a believer. Williams has a warm and radiant stage presence, that takes hold of you and capture your imagination and captivate your senses, the sound of her voice is compelling, it promises redemption. With every note She makes you cry, laugh and dance, she can even wake up the dead, I guess one would call her the voice of an emotional cocktail.Raised in the projects but deeply rooted in gospel , Sharrie began singing at the age of twelve with the Greater Williams Temple church choir, recording and touring, under the direction of Hubert J. Williams, she performed with Dr. Mattie Moss Clark, Shirley Caesar, The Winans, and James Cleveland. Marion McKinnie challenged this young artist with extensive vocal training in jazz, gospel, concert music and drama, she was able to combined her singing with acting. Touring with Snap productions in a hit play, I Need A Man.Sharrie sings the blues because she lived the blues, mental, physical and drug abuse, poverty stricken, most would say what’s the use. Homeless, battered, and even beat death, as a Motherless child, the blues is what Sharrie knows best. By Gods grace she made it out alive and on the rise. Tina Turner, Etta James, KoKo Taylor and Billie Holiday help form her unique style, she has an awesome energetic band in tow, The Wiseguys, they hit you hard and they won’t let you go!