Tuesday, July 19
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Zoom Webinar

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Meet the Speakers

Jill May | Nonprofit and Small Business Consultant, Trisector Consulting, LLC

Jill is a lifelong nonprofit professional, dedicated to helping make her community a better place to live, work and play for all. Jill has served in leadership positions for a wide variety of nonprofit organizations throughout West and Northern Michigan. In 2019, Jill founded Trisector Consulting to apply her expertise in leveraging the strengths of the three sectors – business, public and nonprofit – to develop scalable and sustainable solutions for our communities’ largest and most persistent problems.

As Jill was advancing in her career, she experienced many challenges in navigating the business world as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. In 2012, she co-founded OutPro, along with David Abbott and Rick Baker. She later went on to oversee its merger with the Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce when it became the first mainstream chamber in the nation to offer an LGBTQ+ program. Jill is also a founding board member of the LGBTQ+ Alumni Chapter at Grand Valley State University (GVSU) and Our LGBTQ+ Fund at the Grand Rapids Community Foundation. She has spoken extensively on the topic of LGBTQ+ inclusivity, and is currently focused on bringing attention to the intersectionality between LGBTQ+ and race, disability, and other underrepresented communities, and the unique challenges people with these intersections experience.

Jill earned a master’s degree in public and nonprofit administration from GVSU and a bachelor’s degree in journalism and communications from Olivet College. Jill has been recognized as a Distinguished Alumnus by GVSU, and has been nominated for the Young Athena Award and Young Nonprofit Professional of the Year Award. Jill currently serves on the boards of Our LGBT+ Fund at the Grand Rapids Community Foundation and Up North Pride.

Elisa Pérez-Arellano | Founder, CEO and Psychotherapist, Inclusive Empowerment Services

Elisa Pérez-Arellano (pronouns she, her, ella) is the founder, owner, and CEO of Inclusive Empowerment Services (IES). IES is a private practice that offers mental health therapy, professional coaching, consulting, and training. Elisa offers a unique model of mental health therapy with professional coaching for entrepreneurs, business owners, corporate leaders and professionals who want to improve and strengthen their personal, professional, and work lives. As a businesswoman, Elisa understands the challenges that today’s leaders face such as high levels of stress and lack of self-care due to working long hours and high job demands. The purpose of the Elisa’s model of mental health therapy and professional coaching is to help leaders align their body, mind and soul through the exploration and identification of their behavioral and cognitive patterns and personal and family history to help them to determine if they are living a life of personal fulfillment and professional purpose.

Elisa is a clinical social worker with over 12 years of professional experience in areas such as behavioral/mental health therapy, life coaching, community outreach and advocacy, and program development.

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