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The Empowered Parent
Improve your child's chances of college success in just few short weeks.
Whether you're preparing your first child for college or you've been through the process before, you want to do everything in your power to help them build a vision of their future and reach their dreams. To do this you need the knowledge, insights, supports, and strategies that will help you and your student navigate the college landscape with ease. The Empowered Parent master course makes this dream a reality.
The Empowered Student
Helping students navigate college and launch into academic, personal, and professional success.
When it comes to your child's education and future, they deserve to be fully prepared. The Empowered Student master course provides the tools, resources, skills, insights, strategies, and perspective to take on college like a pro. With the foundation provided in this course, they won’t just succeed, they’ll thrive!
Success Coaching
A tailored strategy for ongoing academic, personal, and professional success.
Success Coaching heightens self-awareness, refines skills and abilities, improves focus, clarifies purpose, identifies goals, develops strategies for success, and empowers students to take on challenges and strive toward success. Coaching helps reveal a new vision of yourself and empowers you to pivot toward your future!
Proprietary Assessments
Guiding Students Into Self-Awareness and Immediate Transformation
Developed for students, but ready to benefit anyone, our proprietary assessment tools provide you the personal insight you need to achieve your fullest potential. The realization of your dreams sets a course for a lifetime of learning, professional development, and personal fulfillment, and these assessments are the foundation. These assessment tools are completely FREE and provide you the opportunity to kickstart self-development! Try now and set a course for success!
Meet Our Leadership Team
Founder & Executive Director
Colin David Pears, PhD
Dr. Pears was formerly the University Director of Academic Support and Advising, and Co-Director of The Center for Academic and Career Success at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He is an expert on student success and retention and has teaching experience at the primary, secondary, and university levels of education. As a higher education administrator he has developed support frameworks and retention initiatives for high-risk, under-represented, and underserved students, served as a professional consultant, and trained faculty, advisors, and academic coaches in important aspects of student engagement and pedagogy. He holds an MA in Political Science and an MA in Philosophy from Boston College, and a PhD in Philosophy from The Catholic University of America.
Senior Learning Architect
Lisa Weaver, PhD
Dr. Weaver is Assistant Professor of Worship at Columbia Theological Seminary, and Executive Director of Women Working on…Well. Lisa has taught at the high school, undergraduate, and graduate levels, and has over 20 years of experience teaching, advising, coaching, and counseling traditional, adult, and second career learners. Additionally, she has over 20 years of ministry experience as an ordained clergy person. She holds an MA in English and Language Arts Education from Columbia University, an M Div. in New Testament and Christian Origins from Union Theological Seminary, and a PhD in Liturgical Studies from The Catholic University of America.
Senior Student Affairs Consultant
Omar Estrada Torres, EdD
Dr. Torres is Director of Strategic Partnerships and Client Relations at Grand River Solutions. He formerly served as the Dean of Student Services and Campus Life at Clark Atlanta University, one of the nation’s oldest HBCUs, and was AVP of Student Affairs at the State University of New York (SUNY), Old Westbury. He was a Public Policy Fellow for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) and he served as Liaison and Program Coordinator at the U.S. Department of Justice. He has expertise in residence life, student activities, leadership development, fraternity and sorority life, and student conduct, and has developed and instituted initiatives on drug and alcohol education, sexual education, supporting first-generation students, and student ethical development. He holds an MPA in Public Administration from SUNY Albany, and an Ed.D in higher education administration from Northeastern University.