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New Powerhouse Team Member

Taylor is excited to serve on the Powerhouse team! At her core, Taylor is a creative and a champion for small businesses, with a well-rounded background in human services and marketing. With more than six years in the hospitality industry as a highly awarded host, she believes in a white-glove, human-first approach to short-term rental management. She has a passion for creating exceptional guest experiences and a proven track record in property design and management. She is exuberantly dedicated to helping owners maximize the potential of their investments.

Taylor is an adventure seeker who loves traveling and exploring in her RV with her partner and her dog. She is a foodie with an insatiable curiosity for new experiences. When she’s not working, Taylor is traveling or practicing skills like woodworking, gardening, farming, scuba diving, and rock climbing.

By |January 10th, 2024|Powerhouse News|

New Powerhouse Team Member

Hannah is thrilled to join the Powerhouse Planning team as a guest services manager. With a five-year background in different marketing roles, mostly in cybersecurity and B2B networking, she is excited to pivot her skill set to be more customer oriented. Along with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and cognitive science, Hannah also holds a master’s degree in marketing and management from the University of Virginia.

Hannah is based out of the Charlottesville, Virginia area, although she has spent the last year traveling with her husband and cat in their self-converted school bus RV! After visiting 20 states and 25 national parks, she is excited to be back on the East Coast.

Coming from a military family herself, Hannah has always had a love of travel and hopes to continue to explore new places, both in her bus and via plane.

When she’s not hiking or checking out new landmarks, Hannah likes to read, pick up any and every craft, and try new foods and drinks.

By |December 20th, 2023|Powerhouse News|

New Powerhouse Team Member

Janice is very excited to join the Powerhouse team as a guest service manager. She has a bachelor’s degree in computer science as well as digital media and web technology. Additionally, she holds an associate degree in chemistry. Janice has many years of experience in customer service as well as data and property management. She feels she can contribute her great skills in assisting the team. Janice is a military spouse with three beautiful children. Over the past 12 years, she has lived with her family in four different countries around the world. During free time, she loves to travel and bake.

By |December 20th, 2023|Powerhouse News|

POWERHOUSE PLANNING RECEIVES AWARD FROM OPERATION: JOB READY VETERANS

Powerhouse Planning, LLC is honored to announce that it received the Outstanding Appreciation Award from Operation: Job Ready Veterans. This award recognizes the five years of dedicated services Powerhouse Planning has provided to Operation: Job Ready Veterans and its mission.

“We are proud to be the recipients of this award,” said Jessica Bertsch, Powerhouse Planning’s president and founder. “This award also signifies the careers that this partnership has provided to military spouses on our team over the last five years, and for that I am grateful.” OJRV’s mission to bridge the transitional gap for veterans, military members, and military families speaks to Powerhouse’s own passion for providing remote careers for military spouses and veterans. Powerhouse is honored to play a small part in the big work OJRV is doing.

Learn more about this partnership here.

 

By |October 23rd, 2023|Powerful Impact|

LEADERSHIP SPOTLIGHT

Celebrating 50 Years of FPSPI with Executive Director April Michele

By: Heatherlynn Akins

Future Problem Solving Program International (FPSPI) will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2024. Dr. E. Paul Torrance founded FPSPI in 1974 based on activities he and his wife Pansy introduced, and it has grown to an internationally beloved problem-solving program for students grades 4 through 12. We recently sat down with FPSPI Executive Director April Michele to discuss what makes FPSPI so successful and find out how they’re planning to celebrate 50 years of equipping problem-solving, ethical leaders.

Ms. Michele began her own career in education teaching elementary school and gifted education. While teaching, she was introduced to the benefits of Future Problem Solving and leading students to competition success. In 2012, she had the opportunity to serve FPSPI in an official capacity, and she hasn’t looked back. From developing curriculum and coordinating competition materials to serving in her current role as executive director, April has thoroughly enjoyed her time and experiences as part of a student-driven organization designed to promote students as leaders. “Our students inspire me and drive my work!” she says. This passion is clearly present in the challenging curriculum the FPSPI team has continued to develop during her time with the organization.

“I’ve taken my background in advanced curriculum studies, highly engaging learning techniques, and pedagogy and strategies for critical and creative thinking and applied them to the principles of FPSPI, along with [working with] an amazing, passionate team. I’m constantly amazed by the students in our program, and they’re the reason we’ve been around for 50 years,” Michele says. Which is why when it came time to think about how to commemorate 50 years of guiding and molding students to become creative, critical thinkers who can adapt and improvise well, FPSPI thought the best way to celebrate would be to create a program designed to reach even more students worldwide.

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By |October 1st, 2023|Leadership Highlight, PowerTips e-newsletter|
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