Zion EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM bios

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Zion Institute Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Shawn Pearson leads the organization's new business development in the nonprofit space with asset mapping, strategic planning, public speaking, and tenacious leadership.

Shawn encourages strategic development and operations for Zion Institute as a social enterprise leveraging new partners / new business development; organizational development and training for micro enterprise businesses; technical writing and proposal preparation; leader training; team organizing for strategic community initiatives. 

Shawn is an advocate for learning and personal growth and has attended the Entrepreneur Academy in San Diego, CA, attended the University of Phoenix, holds a leadership certification from the African American Leadership Institute, handhelds an MBA form the University of Roehampton for business, management, marketing, and support services. 

Meet Zion institute's COO. Mr. Williams has has blazed his own path and has been an accomplished entrepreneur since 1992. This fire for following your personal calling and being a self-made man is a powerful nod to Richard's leadership and vision.

Mr. Williams is an advocate for fitness, health, and wellness. Healthy longevity is a long-time passion and has long been a focus for Richard over his life. 

He started Will to Win Fitness, in 1992 was the owner and operator of Silver Stand Fitness 2000. 

He then formed Supercom, Inc, a wireless communication company in 2002. His work in the wireless industry was centered around acquiring wireless cell site leases and helped facilitate the mergers of Alltel and Verizon as well as T-Mobile and Nextel.

Later, he formed Will to Win LLC , a life coaching business focusing on mentoring and helping young men make better life choices

An accomplished experienced coach, educator, and athlete, Kelli Johnson has earned the respect of colleagues, clients, administrators, students, teammates, and parents over 37 years of teaching, facilitating, and coaching. She was a public-school educator in California and Arizona for 27 years. Ms. Johnson earned her Liberal Arts degree at Pepperdine University. A certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation and have certifications in Diversity Education & Inclusion in the Workplace, and Ethical Leadership.

As an Executive Coach, Virtual and in-person 1:1 and Team Personal Leadership Coaching for Administrators and Leadership Teams for the purpose of unlocking potential and achieving personal and organizational goals. Client-Coach partnerships that focuses on strengthening leadership capacity. 

In her role with Zion Kelli is the Education Leadership Coach, Kelli develops and manages the delivery of meaningful learning experiences for all audiences and consumers of the Zion Preschool Excellence Model and After the Bell Program Model for advancing the Zion’s mission of furthering educational excellence.

Jeannine (Dandridge) Hinds, MD is a physician, minister, and entrepreneur as well as a family medicine practitioner with HonorHealth™. 

Dr. Hinds’ entrepreneurial passions include the launching of her non-profits; Oasis Ministries® and TinyHouseDoc®, through which she offers faith-based community services and mobile healthcare to the homeless, veterans, and at-risk youth in Phoenix and the surrounding areas who have limited access to healthcare. 

A graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago as a Doctor of Medicine (MD), Jeannine also studied at Northwestern University with Bachelor’s degree in Psychology/Pre-Med, becoming a board-certified Family Medicine Physician in 2013. 

Jeannine lends her valuable expertise as a medical practitioner to Zion’s Board of Directors to help guide the needs and medical imperatives that help Zion’s community clinic thrive.

Boyd proudly  brings more than 30 years of construction and carpentry experience and expertise to members of Zion Institute's community. His deep skills and talent to see the possibilities of building spaces for community, Boyd maintains campus facilities, trains in workforce development, and offers mentorship to young men. 

Boyd is an esteemed graduate of Spirit of Excellence Business Training. 

Owner of His Perfect Will(H.P.W.) Holdings, LLC, which offers Zion's Gifted Hands carpentry apprenticeship program for young men to hep them learn valuable trade skills and understand how to properly work with their hands and helps others embrace the value of the professional and spiritual benefits of construction.

Dr. McChristian's  brings her combined experience in successful grassroots community mobilizing and a proven track record of evaluating and implementing sustained programming for multiple  agencies,  education institutions, and community development centers throughout multiple states. With more than 15 years of Social Work direct practice and leadership experience, Dr. McChristian lends her expertise to Zion's leadership to streamline operations, increase financial gains and expand high quality services.