CuraHuman™

Friday Feels: UnderValued. Undervalued sometimes invokes a negative feeling of disappointment. The idea is that something is perceived as less valuable. Yet it can invoke an opportunity for tapping into the potential, and potential may yield even more value than originally imagined. We imagine CuraHuman serving the undervalued because we know their potential. To end a quarter and starting a new quarter, we are so thrilled to share that we got HUB certified in September 2024. HUB: Historically Underutilized Business Receiving this designation is an honor and a privilege. It serves as a testament to this business delivering quality and competency to our clients. It demands us bringing excellence to the client experience in a system that does not consistently support our growth. Like other identities, it’s one that challenges our presence and existence to become what we desire to be. We exist to guide other HUB organizations because our collective success is only achievable with supplier diversity. CuraHuman is one of the few minority owned HUBs for HR (Human Resources) firms locally. We are grateful to be recognized by NC Department of Admin as minority (gender and race) and disability (chronic disease and neurodivergent) owned. If you are seeking to expand your supplier diversity collaborate with us today. We are experts in embracing being human to cure our human, as people living in a world with systems that were not designed for our success. When others see us as undervalued, we typically positively rise above most of their expectations. Never underestimate the undervalued, as they usually have refined more qualities for success than you know. It’s our largest challenge and largest success to serve as a HUB in 2025! #MeaningfulWork #FeelingUndervalued #HUBCertified #SupplierDiversity #2025HUB #HistoricallyUnderutilizedBusiness #CareHuman #EmbraceBeingHuman #ThoughtLeadership #SelfLeadership #ExistFully #EBX #HumanExperience #LeadershipDevelopment #HRCoaching #LeadershipCoaching #LightkeeperLeadership #AuthenticLeadership #AuthenticCoach #WomenOwned #ChiefHuman #MinorityOwned #FractionalCHRO #LightkeeperLeadershipCuration #CelestialChoicenessCoach #ChoicenessCoach #HumanResourcesThoughtLeadership #ServeUndervalued #ServantLeadership #HRservices #HRInterventions #CureYourHuman #ExquisiteBeing #ReactivateChoiceness #CoachingHuman

The first day of 2025 is upon us. Reflection is not over just because we have transitioned to a new year. The choice to reflect and redirect in the present is always available to us. Creating new goals must align with the values of who you are and who you want to become. It’s an invitation to choose activities that serve your awareness and growth. In 2025, CuraHuman is being and doing our values (six integrated values of our mission and purpose): * We believe that each person has inherent value and is meant to exist fully~Embrace Belonging * We believe in sincerity and commitment to self, then others~Embody Wholeheartedness * We believe in mindful and principled love in all aspects~Express Agape Love * We believe that thoughtful and meaningful change is possible with the desire to learn~Emit Curiousity * We believe willingly and courageously taking risks together elevates all of us as a team~Exude Boldness * We believe that genuine heartfelt concern for others moves us to become our best human~Embed Care Our coaching clients partner with us as their coach because we demonstrate the LightKeepep Leadership Curation in our everyday. There is still time to register for this author experience book club (deadline is Friday). Embrace being human, cure your human is an invitation for deep independent work. Maybe joining the members book club at RMSHRM will spark new interest for inclusivity that you have yet to explore. We will be cohosting and participating in this book club because it keeps us aligned to self-leadership that creates transformational workplace cultures. We need more individuals caring for their whole human. Engaging in a book club with Human Resources peers will be one of our ways to care for our whole human! The Exquisite Being Experience (EBX) "when wisdom enters your heart and knowledge becomes pleasant to your soul" is available to any human at any moment. How you design that experience is entirely up to you! Let 2025 be the year of focusing attention and effort to be a better you! #EmbraceBeingHuman #WholePersonCare #SelfLeadership #NonprofitLeadership #BookClub #AwarenessinReading #Expandawarenessthroughbooks #NonprofitThoughtLeader #ExistFully #HumanExperience #IncludionMatters #LeadershipDevelopment #HRCoaching #LeadershipCoaching #AuthenticLeadership #DisabilityOwned #MinorityOwned #WomanOwned #LightkeeperLeadershipCuration #ChoicenessCelestialCoach #ChoicenessCoach #CureYourHuman #ExquisiteBeing #ReactivateChoiceness #CoachingHuman

Our October recap begins with an event we attended in 2023, 2024, and hopefully in 2025 too. Annually a local nonprofit, Foundation for Health Leadership & Innovation (FHLI) hosts the Bernstein Event. It honors an individual, Jim who challenged the current design of health (back in the 1980s) and actively became part of a solution to become better. It’s also a time to celebrate the latest Jim Bernstein Fellows in their journey. This annual gathering unites community health leaders, public officials, and grassroots advocates to build connections, celebrate successes, and strategize for the future. CuraHuman enjoys attending because it gives a more holistic approach to caring for humans in the workplace. Well-Being is now being intentionally integrated within the business model. Innovation takes discipline, intention, and consistency. Our owner always seeks mission alignment when engaging in community. As a woman, woman of color, and person with a disability she has personal lived experience of inequitable patient care. We support any organization that prioritizes social drivers of health to dismantle inequitable systems. It has been a joy to have worked with this organization over the past year to set up their Human Resources function. They have embraced a modern HR as a business partner. They also elevated their own leadership through coaching and growth. The staff at FHLI are creating systems level change that will ultimately improve the workplace for all, because a healthier workforce is a more authentic one! On the last day of 2024 we celebrate the success of prioritizing whole person care in our own business and in community. P.S. We love a comfortable romper and the Friday Center! #HealthEquity #WellnessStrategy #BersteinEvent2024 #HealthAccess #EmbraceBeingHuman #WholePersonCare #SelfLeadership #NonprofitLeadership #Innovation #NonprofitThoughtLeader #ExistFully #HumanExperience #LeadershipDevelopment #HRCoaching #LeadershipCoaching #AuthenticLeadership #DisabilityOwned #MinorityOwned #WomanOwned #LightkeeperLeadershipCuration #ChoicenessCelestialCoach #ChoicenessCoach #CureYourHuman #ExquisiteBeing #ReactivateChoiceness #CoachingHuman

Meaningful Movement Monday: New Executive, New Leadership, Imagine a Better C-Suite! Imagine the impact if every human could genuinely cultivate the force within themselves. Modern workplaces demand a new leadership model. We owe it our organizations, our fellow leaders, our emerging leaders, our staff, and our community to reimagine a better c-suite. Our moments are meaningful when we look to the future and move forward aligned. “The job description of this newer leader may create fear, anxiety, or concern, for who can embody a superhuman description stretching the human potential.” Did such a statement invoke your curiosity or trigger your apprehension, or a combination of the two? How can you tap into the new leadership model being shaped? How can you transform into self-leadership now? Curious about what job this is for, then check out our article. We will be highlighting the four fundamental shifts to make sure you as a leader, are ready for 2025. This article was created in 2023 following a SHRM release and shared in the summer of 2024. We have to be able to pause and see wisdom when it is gifted months in advance of what is coming to the lived experience. This week we continue integrating all of this into our being for 2025 and beyond. We are grateful for 2024 and recently celebrating 500 followers as a milestone. We are committed to continue serving as a thought leader to this community today, tomorrow, and in the future. Thank you for trusting our mission, our purpose, our values, our content, and our influence on your thinking! It is our pleasure to move in this life as your Choiceness Celestial Coach to create The Exquisite Being Experience! In 2025, we will commit to our coaching service as the only offering to clients in our business model. #EmbraceBeingHuman #SelfLeadership #BetterCSuite #NewLeadershipModel #SuperHumanJD #500Followers #ExistFully #MeaningfulMovement #HumanExperience #LeadershipDevelopment #HRCoaching #LeadershipCoaching #AuthenticLeadership #AuthenticCoach #WomenOwned #ChiefHuman #MinorityOwned #DisabilityOwned #FractionalCHRO #LightkeeperLeadershipCuration #ChoicenessCelestialCoach #ChoicenessCoach #HumanResourcesThoughtLeadership #ServeUndervalued #ServantLeadership #HRservices #HRInterventions #CureYourHuman #ExquisiteBeing #ReactivateChoiceness #CoachingHuman

Whimsical Wednesday : Work Weeks can be challenging and rewarding. CuraHuman recognizes that our playfulness fosters creativity and innovation to do our meaningful work. Midweek will be our space to re-mind ourselves to be funny, inject some humor, and enjoy being human. It’s going to connect lyrics and written words to how we show up. What has been the best day of your life to date? What about it made it the best day? How could you infuse elements of that day into your present day? Could being more present help you embrace being human? How might being present cure your human? The best day of our life, is yet to be experienced. Live every day as the best day of your life. Creativity exists in us as humans. Our thinking ability makes us unique, to create our lived experience. Dreaming and acting towards those dreams sustains the Exquisite Being Experience (EBX). American Authors lyrics taps into this for us. As we end the year, it’s on us not to give up. I had a dream so big and loud I jumped so high I touched the clouds I stretched my hands out to the sky We danced with monsters through the night I'm never gonna look back Whoa, I'm never gonna give it up No, please don't wake me now (2, 3, 4) This is gonna be the best day of my life My life This is gonna be the best day of my life My life I howled at the moon with friends And then the sun came crashing in But all the possibilities No limits just epiphanies I'm never gonna look back Whoa, I'm never gonna give it up No, just don't wake me now This is gonna be the best day of my life My life This is gonna be the best day of my life My life I hear it calling outside my window I feel it in my soul (soul) The stars were burning so bright The sun was out 'til midnight I say we lose control (control) This is gonna be the best day of my life My life This is gonna be the best day of my life My life This is gonna be, this is gonna be, this is gotta be The best day of my life Everything is looking up, everybody up now This is gonna be the best day of my life My life Consider exploring the possibilities with our Choiceness Celestial Coach through leadership coaching in the Lightkeeper Leadership Curator (LLC) coaching model. The next time you feel it may not be the best day ever, connect with CuraHuman to dream in self-leadership!! CuraHuman is dedicated to helping individuals, teams, and organizations embrace being human to cure their human. #EmbraceBeingHuman #BestDayofmyLife #AmericanAuthors #WhimsicalWednesday #AuthenticLeadership #AuthenticCoach #Collaboration #ChiefHuman #FractionalCHRO #LightkeeperLeadershipCoaching #ChoicenessCoach #HumanResourcesThoughtLeadership #ServeUndervalued #ServantLeadership #HRservices #HRInterventions #CureYourHuman #ExquisiteBeing #ReactivateChoiceness #CoachingHuman #BeingHuman

Our mental faculties constantly assess for the danger or threat. Creating a neural pathway for a better experience starts with focusing energy on positive reinforcement. The Tuesday Terrific Leader series is a way to bridge the singularity of experience. It’s a way to acknowledge an emergence of patterns for creating solid leaders. Our Humanities teacher is a great leader. He would challenge us on what made us believe what we believed. In order to be a great leader, you have to cure your human. Indirectly he inspired transformational leaders. He had us become aware of our bias and create systems level change locally. Some moments to celebrate: -Grief Support: he comforted a group of us in middle school when we unexpectedly lost a friend in death -Cultural Competency: he shared how is grandmother would encourage him to kiss her hand as a sign of respect -Celebrate Language: sometimes he spoke to us in Arabic -Financial Literacy: the value of the dollar and economics when we participated in the Econ Bowl competition -Test Technique: taught us how to pass a standard test for the sake of testing, and actually helped us learn for the sake of learning -Circle of Influence: he would break up the cliques of likeness, creating new diverse groups for school work -Amplified Voices: respected the introverts and yet invited them to converse in their own way (advanced questions, written thoughts, etc) -Accountable: Created and sustained a classroom for pyscological safety, removing bigotry and bullying One of the most terrific lessons, lives in CuraHuman today. *No ad hominem attacks.* We never attack the person. We always focus on the problem itself not the people involved. A humanities teacher that cared about humans. Thank you to a teacher that was never so attached to his identity that he lost sight of his purpose. He poured into us for over four years. Embrace being human, cure your human. CuraHuman aims to transform people into their best selves. How can you celebrate a terrific leader? When was the last time you commended a leader for positive leadership? When was the last time YOU reflected on leaders that have influenced you? What opportunity do you have to become this for another human? #TerrificLeaders #EmbraceBeingHuman #SelfLeadership #ExistFully #EBX #HumanExperience #LeadershipDevelopment #HRCoaching #LeadershipCoaching #AuthenticLeadership #AuthenticCoach #WomenOwned #ChiefHuman #MinorityOwned #FractionalCHRO #LightkeeperLeadershipCoaching #CelestialChoicenessCoach #ChoicenessCoach #HumanResourcesThoughtLeadership #ServeUnderserved #ServantLeadership #HRservices #HRInterventions #CureYourHuman #ExquisiteBeing #ReactivateChoiceness #CoachingHuman

Meaningful Movement Monday: A year ago today we were finishing up one of our first contracts with a local nonprofit as a business. Over six months into entrepreneurship, there was a lot to absorb and learn. Over the past year though, we have had the opportunity to work on amazing impactful assignments. As we end another calendar year, this week’s meaningful movement is to start slowing down. It’s too easy to succumb to ending the year strong or trying to achieve one more goal…instead choosing to be paced takes courage. Choosing to start a business takes courage. Our owner keeps to her core values to stay courageous. Her identity as a Choiceness Celestial Coach aligns with letting the light shine out of the darkness. In 2022, she was in a period of darkness. This image was captured in April 2022. It reminds us that light can exist in any darkness. Today we share to express our commitment to slowing down and committing to inner work. Celestial is in our name because CEL means we will continue to curate, engage, and LightKeep. The painting of the lighthouse is a beautiful reminder in our home. You can always choose light. Be light: embrace being human, cure your human. Our Lightkeeper Leadership Curation (LLC) was designed from our existence as humans. Each and every one of us desire The Exquisite Being Experience (EBX) of becoming our full whole selves. Sometimes meaningful movement is slower movements not faster ones. CuraHuman is with you on your journey to reactivate choiceness and cultivate that light from a red flame to a blue flame (our brand colors!). How will you choose to end today, your week, and this year? How can you embrace your values directionally? What values will serve you best in 2025? Where is your darkness? What is generating your light? Do you see yourself as a Lightkeeper? ~Your Choiceness Celestial Coach #EmbraceBeingHuman #SelfLeadership #ExistFully #MeaningfulMovement #HumanExperience #LeadershipDevelopment #HRCoaching #LeadershipCoaching #AuthenticLeadership #AuthenticCoach #WomenOwned #ChiefHuman #MinorityOwned #DisabilityOwned #FractionalCHRO #LightkeeperLeadershipCuration #ChoicenessCelestialCoach #ChoicenessCoach #HumanResourcesThoughtLeadership #ServeUndervalued #ServantLeadership #HRservices #HRInterventions #CureYourHuman #ExquisiteBeing #ReactivateChoiceness #CoachingHuman

Meaningful Movement Monday: This Monday felt long yet we are so prepared for being ourselves. Tomorrow we will be attending the Raleigh Metro Society for Human Resource Management (RMSHRM) as a guest panelist. It’s their last event of the year and it is an honor to be present for it. Our meaningful movement has us easing out the year among friends for this topic. Ellysa S. will be spilling the tea on her experience with mentoring. You will want to participate to see her embrace being human to cure your human. Coaching clients demands that Ellysa continues to cultivate her best self. The same can be said for mentoring, and we are privileged to have colleagues paving our expansion in our moderator Cheryl D. Gould, SHRM-SCP and our fellow panelist Latisha Newby, Esq. We have served together in community for the past few years in our local DEI committee together, so this more than just a panel presentation for us. This meeting is a celebration of us individually, as a team, and as an organization for our larger RMSHRM success as a Board of Directors for 2024. At Curahuman we believe every exquisite being in the world contributes to the success of a community goal with their whole selves and we reactivate choiceness to care for your human. We are evidence based decision makers at CuraHuman. Dare we say that the evidence proves we are living that mission! #EmbraceBeingHuman #SelfLeadership #RepresentationMatters #SpeakingEngagements #MeaningfulMentorshipMatters #GuestSpeaker #ExistFully #MeaningfulMovement #HumanExperience #LeadershipDevelopment #HRCoaching #LeadershipCoaching #AuthenticLeadership #AuthenticCoach #WomenOwned #ChiefHuman #MinorityOwned #DisabilityOwned #FractionalCHRO #LightkeeperLeadershipCuration #ChoicenessCelestialCoach #ChoicenessCoach #HumanResourcesThoughtLeadership #ServeUndervalued #ServantLeadership #HRservices #HRInterventions #CureYourHuman #ExquisiteBeing #ReactivateChoiceness #CoachingHuman

Our September recap ends with gratitude to the Athena of the triangle. We returned promptly from Chicago to be present for the ceremony. The Leadership Awards Luncheon was an opportunity to see those we connected with at the VIP reception weeks prior. The venue was local to us (we enjoy supporting local economic development) The Pavilion at Carriage Farm and extending hospitality with a beautifully inviting color scheme for ATHENA. The nonprofit is celebrating a decade just like our Chief Human of serving in the industry. One of our most salient moments for our Choiceness Coach was engaging with the local STEM high schoolers from the Wake Young Women's Leadership Academy. They were honored to have conversations about our business CuraHuman and to hear that Ellysa S. was a STEM college graduate. Overall many of these ones expressed delight to have seen this human cure her human. The theme for the ceremony was Igniting Action. Our interaction and recognition as a thought leader will allow CuraHuman to continue its incredible impact. Thank you to KPMG US for their sponsorship and personal acknowledgement of their mentor who supported Ellysa years ago in the Disability:IN program to empower undervalued leaders including women, women of color, and people with disabilities. The ATHENA principles are so easy to hone as CuraSkills (aka people skills) because they are authentic to our existence at CuraHuman: Live Authentically, Foster Collaboration, Learn Constantly, Build Relationships, Advocate, Fiercely, Give Back, Act Courageously, and Celebrate! It is empowering to receive a meaningful endorsement from ATHENA of the Triangle Board of Directors with our finalist nomination. Congrats to the recipient Ming Gao, PhD and fellow finalist Aynsley Szczesniak We are now a part of another community that celebrates the undervalued to reach their full human potential! This is why we are in the business of being, being human at work. Nonprofits as demonstrated by this recap post have a crucial role for system levels change and equitable treatment of individuals in the workplace and beyond. This is what diversity, equity, and inclusion looks like and it benefits all of us! #EmbraceBeingHuman #SelfLeadership #NonprofitLeadership #2024YoungProfessionalFinalist #NonprofitThoughtLeader #ExistFully #ATHENAValuesExpressed #2024Finalist #IgnitingAction #ATHENAofthetriangle #HumanExperience #LeadershipDevelopment #HRCoaching #LeadershipCoaching #AuthenticLeadership #LightkeeperLeadershipCuration #ChoicenessCelestialCoach #ChoicenessCoach #CureYourHuman #ExquisiteBeing #ReactivateChoiceness #CoachingHuman

Our September recap continues with our first trip to Chicago. As an original NYC native we enjoy exploring another city. In September 23-25 CuraHuman attended one of our favorite conferences. Our Chief Human was invited to join the CTE Leadership Collaborative Convening as an alumni. Our Choiceness Coach was a part of the inaugural fellowship for HR professionals in 2021 and has stayed involved in the community ever since. SHRM (Society of Human Resources Management) helped sponsor the first Talent of Tomorrow Fellowship in joint partnership with JFF and the ECMC Foundation. As an employer with an employee in the ToT fellowship or as an HR professional who participates in the program, our leader was able to develop lasting strategies for talent development and recruitment. The program also enables students from community colleges and CTE programs to gain access to meaningful opportunities with employers who previously focused their recruiting efforts on people with four-year degrees. That makes the Talent of Tomorrow Fellowship a win-win proposition for tapping into undervalued populations. This Fellowship expanded strategic partnerships needed for equitable and inclusive talent pipelines. It also encouraged more systems level change through economic development initiatives to support workforce development intentionally and with locality. On a personal level it empowered Ellysa to create CuraHuman to empower more people to transform their leader to support all undervalued populations. It has served our owner well to participate and graduate from a program that is shifting to a more modern approach to our human capital challenges. She now has the resources and expertise to navigate small business owners as well as nonprofits to further their impact. Many may not know that Ellysa S. was a general science major so to be at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry with special access was a treat! We stood in the tornado simulator which was incredibly cool. #EmbraceBeingHuman #SelfLeadership #CTE #ECMC #NonprofitImpact #HRCohort #ScienceMajor #TalentofTomorrow #JFF #2024CTELeadershipCollaborativeConvening #ToTFellow #NonprofitLeadership #ExistFully #HumanExperience #LeadershipDevelopment #HRCoaching #LeadershipCoaching #AuthenticLeadership #LightkeeperLeadershipCuration #ChoicenessCelestialCoach #ChoicenessCoach #CureYourHuman #ExquisiteBeing #ReactivateChoiceness #CoachingHuman