Sha-shonda Porter, Ph.D.,

Sha-shonda Porter is a writer, a public speaker, a powerful coach, and a compelling teacher! She has proven time and time again that setting goals, focusing one’s energy, and persevering produces desired results.  One of her favorite poetic lines, “Life aint been no crystal stair,” is indicative of the many struggles she has overcome. However, her willingness to share her own personal truths along with her strategies for overcoming, transforms the negative into positive.  Her message is one of hope, compassion, revival, and transformation. Her primary objective is to help others to discover their life purpose and empower them to fulfill it..

Sha-shonda is the owner of F.I.R.E. and is committed to providing services that provoke spiritual, emotional, and intellectual increase in the lives of individuals, business entities, organizations, and their affected communities.  F.I.R.E. provides education and enrichment, training and development, and consulting services to clients in a variety of settings including workshops and courses, conferences, and one-on-one.  F.I.R.E.’s mission is to empower and inspire through knowledge sharing.  With over 30 years of combined higher education, corporate, and ministerial experience, Dr. Porter specializes in three primary areas of development:

· Personal / Spiritual,

· Education (teaching and learning), and

· Leadership.

Sha-shonda has a BA in Writing and Literature, an MFA in Creative Writing, and a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in Humanities and Culture.  Her research produced a groundbreaking, analytical method and tool, Racial Identity Development Criticism (RIDC).  A practical, interventionist, pedagogical approach to reading and discussing race, RIDC responds to the need for practical tools in multicultural education and discourse

Sha-shonda, who is the author of a fiction novel, The Devil Stopped By, and the Purpose, Power, and Permission blog, is a dynamic speaker, gifted with the ability to speak into the lives and hearts of people in a way that empowers and transforms.