Shawna D. Payne, MBA, CHC, is an award-winning, Time Management Expert, Entrepreneurship and Productivity Consultant, Women's Empowerment Speaker and Creator of BE The Game Changer Planner: God. Goals. Grind®.

 

Through her online coaching, consulting and mentorship company, The BE Academy, Shawna provides personal and professional success coaching, entrepreneurship development and mentorship services to support new and aspiring entrepreneurs, career professionals and students. Her mission is to help individuals [youth and adults], build their own opportunities to be self-sufficient. She helps her clients identify what they want to achieve, plan how they will achieve it and implement proven strategies to successfully transform their goals and visions into reality.

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Committed to the cultivation of women in entrepreneurship, Shawna equips corporate women with tools they need to leverage their corporate expertise via social media, so they can transform their visions into real-life businesses, while also balancing full-time work and family.

 

Shawna's full immersion into empowerment and entrepreneurship came in September 2018, after experiencing burnout and stress in her corporate management career of 13 years. Shawna decided to take her corporate leadership skills online and leveraged her expertise and education to fulfill her dream of cultivating women in positions of leadership and influence in workplaces around the world. Currently, Shawna's client and community portfolio expands from Washington, D.C. to Dubai; Abu Dhabi, South Africa and Nigeria to name a few.

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When Shawna is not coaching women and consulting for corporations, she is mentoring high- and middle-school-aged students on how to become leaders NOW, pursue their own entrepreneurial endeavors, build their self-confidence and make bold decisions, through her Building Opportunities for Student Success (B.O.S.S.) Leadership Program.

 

Shawna is a Certified Health and Master Business Coach. She obtained her Women's Entrepreneurship Certificate from Cornell University and holds a M.B.A, with a focus in Leadership Development, a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics and a Certificate in African American Studies from the University of Maryland. She is a Board member of the Queen Anne’s County Character Counts! Advisory Council and a Character Counts Coach for Queen Anne’s County Public Schools. Shawna currently resides in Queenstown, MD with her husband Keith Payne Jr. and their three children.

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