Vanessa Dodds
Vanessa brings over a decade’s worth of knowledge, passion, and results for businesses, nonprofits, and educational institutions. She is an accomplished business professional, educator, and entrepreneur. Vanessa’s high energy, determination to make a difference, and “think-outside-the-box” ideas, strategies, and business models are what differentiates Connections 4 Success from our competitors. Vanessa is a change agent, entrepreneur, educator, and professional innovator.
Vanessa started her career as an educator and community partnership advocate. Although, due to multiple pivot opportunities across the business industries, her growing passion and savviness for strategy and management, as well as, the continuing desire to make a difference she found herself in a position for a significant career change.
She moved into business management and led multiple professional development initiatives, business model shifts, career pipeline strategies, and the oversight of multiple projects with a funding capital of over $4.5 million dollars. All of which resulted in an increased return on investment at a minimum of 50% up to over a 200%.
Vanessa’s vast experience in the education, nonprofit, government, workforce development, and business industries is what makes her methods, knowledge, and insights so valuable as a business owner, leader, and speaker.