About Us
ELA is a non-profit 501(3)c organization that was founded in 2008 by Flo Brett.
The mission of ELA is to help young people develop their
most valuable asset – themselves
through an interactive, sequential personal leadership curriculum. ELA offers
an innovative program focusing on several critical elements
including: personal responsibility, self-empowerment, team building, healthy
behaviors, interpersonal and communication skills. Participants learn a
step-by-step process enabling them to identify their dreams, and set goals to
achieve them within six key areas of their lives: social, intellectual, family,
health, financial, values and beliefs. Through a variety of hands-on, engaging
activities, participants take a “journey of self-discovery” providing them with
essential tools for success as they move forward in life. These tools allow
young people to turn their potential into performance, help them become confident,
strong and successful leaders, and give them a competitive advantage in the 21
Century world in which they live.
About Our Team
Flo
Brett – Executive Director
Flo
Brett, a graduate of Derby University in England, specializes in helping
teams and individuals achieve improved personal and organizational results through
action-based team-building strategies, goal achievement, and positive attitude development. Clients
include nonprofit organizations, health care companies, schools and school agencies.
Flo found herself in a unique position being able to blend her two passions, working with children, which started in a pediatric nurse specialist role and the love of personal development of people. Her twenty-year career includes but not limited to accomplishments in direct management, merger
and acquisitions, managing complex cultural change and driving quality initiatives
across large organizations. She has developed and implemented leadership and
development programs from board to operational staff, university-level teaching
and teaching within
Pre K – Grade 12 establishments.
Flo has improved and affected leadership teams within various employee
groups in corporate organizations and school settings, motivated staff and students
to accomplish goals they did not think was achievable, and left a lasting
impression within many organizations. Flo strongly believes that your thoughts, values, and beliefs, create your reality... They form the attitudes that drive your behavior. If you
want better results, you have to change the behavior that drives them.
Flo’s enthusiastic approach toward developing essential self-leadership
skills within teens can help all students develop to their full
potential. She has three school
age children and enjoys walking, skiing, and contributing to community service
projects, contact Flo Brett.
Rosemary Weltman - Associate Director
As a
former teacher, principal and senior level school administrator, Rosemary has
demonstrated a firm conviction about the positive role that leadership plays in
a student’s life. Through her work with
the Shaker Heights and Beachwood City School Districts, Rosemary created a leadership program to assist
school leaders in acquiring new knowledge and sharpening their leadership
skills.
Rosemary
obtained her doctoral degree at the University of Akron in the field of
educational administration. Her dissertation was a study of effective principal
leadership within school organizations. After
joining the Effective Leadership Academy in 2009, Rosemary is enjoying the
opportunity to facilitate these leadership processes among young people.
Rosemary resides in the Cleveland area. She enjoys spending time with her husband and
her family, exercising regularly, and reading.
For more information, contact Rosemary Weltman.
Turning Potential Into Performance!
