About Us

Learn more about Our Experience, Our Approach, Why Us? and About Vanessa Womack.

Our Experience

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After more than 25 years in consulting and leadership for business, Services to Help Entrepreneurs Develop (SHED Group) is now Vanessa Womack Consulting LLC. We share our passion by helping others. We are still here to empower your team and outfit them with the tools they need to succeed. We have added governance training and strategic planning to put you on a solid track to success.

Our Approach

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Our services include listening first, then consulting to help identify gaps and opportunities, and finally developing training for staff or board of directors that meet your specific organizational needs. Diversity training is available. We offer a suite of quality customized topics that will help you get there quickly and smoothly. That’s how we ensure your success.

Why Us?

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Today's businesses require technical skills just to turn on a device. Yet soft skills will always be critical for internal and external communications. Do you require diversity training for your staff or board of directors? We are here to help. We want to give each of you the time and guidance you deserve. Whether you’re seeking a strategic alliance with the right partner or a special skills set or tool, email or call us today. Let's create and refine your plan for success.

About Vanessa Womack, MBA

In addition to being a business instructor at Bryant & Stratton College, Vanessa Womack is a facilitator in leadership, governance, DEIA, soft skills, and team dynamics. She developed the successful LinkedIn Learning course “Managing A Diverse Team” which launched in 2018 and has accumulated nearly 150,000 global learners. Vanessa publishes a monthly newsletter on LinkedIn entitled ‘Pass It On’, about diversity, leadership, and education. She wrote the audio course on Listenable, “Practicing DEI Can Improve Organizational Culture”, launched in 2020. She completed a certificate for training from the University of South Florida – MUMA School of Business for DEI in the Workplace.

She is the DEIA Consultant for the Alliance for Building Better Medicine under Activation Capital. Other experiences include being BoardSource Certified Governance Consultant; Lead Faculty-Area Chair in the School of Business at the University of Phoenix former local campus in Richmond, VA; coaching and facilitating career transitioning clients for future jobs and entrepreneurship; public speaker and radio show host, On Track with Vanessa Womack. 

Vanessa earned her undergraduate degree from Baruch College (CUNY) and MBA from Averett University, (Danville, VA). She is a member of Leadership Metro Richmond (LQ 2006) in Richmond, Virginia.

Vanessa Womack
Consultant and Facilitator

Vanessa Womack, Author

Vanessa has published two multicultural STEM children’s books, Bookie and Lil Ray: In the Game (2021) and Emerald Jones: The Fashion Designer Diva (2020). She is the author of the novel Paint the Sky Purple (2010) and co-author of The Female CEO: Pearls, Power & Passion (2014). 

Learn more about Vanessa’s published work at Paint the Sky Purple Publishing. If you would like to order a copy of any book, please email vanessawomack@gmail.com.