Motivational Speaker * Philanthropist * Entrepreneur
ALISHIA.
GOODRIDGE
ABOUT
ME!
Alishia Goodridge is an entrepreneur and community leader with a passion for helping others develop and discover their personal path to success. Ms. Goodridge has over 20 years of experience within both corporate and social service environments. She is a proud graduate of CUNY Medgar Evers College, holds a M. S. from Pratt Institute and an M.B.A. from University of Phoenix. Her professional career strengths include mastery in customer and client relationships, exemplary business acumen, management and supervision skills which has resulted in some of the financial industry’s leading IPOs and mergers & acquisitions.
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Alishia's entrepreneurial aspirations began as a teenager in a small family catering and event planning business. She took those tough lessons and blossomed into a global transformational leader partnering with multimillion dollar companies in the beauty, health & wellness, real estate & financial services industries. Her enthusiasm to assist others led her to begin her own business, Defined Focus Inc. – The Mindshaker Movement, a consulting, business development & empowerment hub.
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The Mindshaker Movement looks to shift the mindset of every individual through coaching, workshops and conferences that create a new outlook on life and the future. Currently through a partnership with Grameen International, Alishia along with community partners assist women fund their entrepreneurial ventures via micro financing opportunities, which are allow them to flourish in to market place game changers.
A proud Brooklynite with Caribbean & Southern roots, Alishia continues to invest in her community and empowers groups of all ages as a motivational speaker, business coach and event host. In her role with the successful nonprofit Determined to Educate, Inc., as Director of Operations, Ms. Goodridge mentors and motivates youngsters and is the president of the Brooklyn Clarendon Meadows Lions Club, a local club with a global span serving the community in all facets. Alishia believes that we all have a responsibility to "give back" to our community and serve others and continues to live in that space by recently joining the office of Assembly Woman Diana C. Richardson as Coordinator of Special Services and Constituent Affairs Manager in the 43rd District.
