MACE Award Winner for Leadership in Best Diversity Practice
(Micro)
Author:
1. 10 easy steps to...Growing Older Disgracefully! (January 2007), AnSer Publishing
2. 10 easy steps to...Finding Your Ideal Soulmate! (2006)
3. Money, Sex and Compromise: The Hidden Agenda in Modern Relationships (2004)
4. Managing the Diversity Maze (2002)
5. What's in a Name? (1996)
6. Signposts to Success (1991)
PLUS over 800 articles written on emotional self-enhancement, through work and relationship issues, learned from the University of Life!
Elaine Sihera's websites:
http://www.elainesden.org
http://www.helium.com/user/show/63465
http://www.mscyprah.newsvine.com
http://britbrat-cyprah.blogspot.com
Elaine is interested in contributing to/addressing or presenting on:
* The Joys of Ageing(especially for people over 45 years old)
* Motivating Women and Minorities
* Diversity and Equalities Management (for public and private sector)
* Education (Boosting Youth Esteem and Achievement)
* Enhancing Professional and Career Development
* Improving Cultural Interaction and Relationships
Known as "Miss Diversity", because of her expertise in promoting cultural harmony and interaction, as well as Ms CYPRAH(cyber-Oprah), Elaine is a public speaker, author, writer, personal development and relationship consultant, and the leading independent authority on diversity and race issues in the UK.
The most active British woman on the Internet, Elaine is a fearless Black pioneer who has a number of FIRSTS to her credit. She also has over 30,000 regular visitors to her MySpace weblog, as well as over 3000 'friends' who receive her weekly life coaching bulletins. Elaine's websites are read by over 25,000 unique visitors per month (over 70,000 page views).
DESCRIBED BY HER PEERS AS: Confident Pioneer, Dynamic, Inspirational, Motivational, Wise, with a 'winning smile', Elaine is anti-ageist and a tireless campaigner for fairness and justice who is long on humour, short on patience, and never short of an opinion!
Originally from KINGSTON, Jamaica (emigrated to UK in 1967. British citizen 1977).
EDUCATED at
1. Convent of Mercy Academy private school
2. The Open University (FIRST Black Graduate: BA Hons. Sociology & Education
3. Cambridge University (FIRST Black Education Post Graduate:
Post Graduate in Education (and MA status)
SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS so far...
1. One of the outstanding profile featured in book: Portraits of Black Achievement (by the Institute of Education, University of London)
2. The presenter of the FIRST ever Diversity Lecture in the House of Commons (2004)
3. Keynote Speaker at the Paris Global Women’s Leadership Conference (sponsored by UNESCO) which was attended by over 500 senior women achievers from around the world. (2004)
4. The FIRST Black woman in the UK to own a national magazine
5. The ONLY woman to be simultaneously awarded TWO National Training Awards by the DTi.
6. FOUNDER OF:
a. The British Diversity Awards
b. The Windrush Men and Women of the Year Awards
7. Chief Administrator/Judge of the Commission for Racial Equality's national Leadership Challenge initiative which exhorted senior executives
