Jeffrie Hunter
South Bend
Summary
Dynamic leader with a proven track record at Crossing School of Business & Entrepreneurship, excelling in strategic planning and team building. Achieved a 15% increase in student enrollment through innovative programming and effective communication. Skilled in career coaching and fostering partnerships, driving impactful educational outcomes and enhancing school culture.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Regional Coordinator/Site Director
Crossing School of Business & Entrepreneurship
Hammond
02.2025 - Current
- Directed and managed all campus affairs to align with the Crossing model, enhancing student and staff engagement.
- I manage and oversee all campus activities, the master schedule, and staff and student development, while developing innovative programming that is relevant.
- The team-building strategy included agilities, DISC assessments, and professional development opportunities. Our team is operational and performing in three months' time.
- Established and nurtured partnerships with schools and business leaders, expanding academic and career opportunities for students.
- Community organizations are in partnerships for our students to have paid on-the-job training, while becoming certified in skilled areas.
- Implemented PBIS and a campus council student leadership team that improved school culture.
- We implemented an enrollment strategy that resulted in half of our students being already enrolled for the next school year. That has never been done before in campus history.
- In only three months of operations, student enrollment increased by 15%.
- Our school partners accepted my proposal for a centralized withdrawal system. Once a week, all students would withdraw from their school, while I would be present to enroll them in our school.
Customer Success Manager
Horizon Educational Alliance
Goshen
07.2023 - Current
- Created and implemented student recruitment and onboarding strategy, including: assessing current and future student needs, while working to develop strategies for expanding the apprenticeship pool
- Provide wraparound support for apprentices based on individual needs
- Serve as the single point of contact for employer partners, schools, and apprentices to address questions and concerns
- Provide thoughtful and responsive customer service as needs arise to problemsolve unique challenges
- Meet with apprentices regularly to ensure they are on track and being supported in their apprenticeship (professional development, pulse checks, site visits, competency evaluations review, etc.)
- Plan, organize, and implement success strategies; coach and advise employer partner organizations improve program success
- Identify opportunities to increase youth apprenticeship programs within existing employer partners
- Develop a long-lasting trusted advisor relationship with all apprentice system stakeholders
- Onboard new students, including collecting needed information, planning and implementing orientation
- Train supervisors twice a year
- Created collaborative opportunities with business partners for aligning common goals and increase apprentice opportunities
- Presented strategic plan to leadership for expanding apprenticeship pool while building brand recognition and increased community partnerships
- Developed a 'Work-Program' as an introduction to becoming an apprentice
Adjunct Professor
Ivy Tech Community College
South Bend
06.2022 - Current
- College instruction: Introduction to Business, Principles of Management, Principles of Marketing
- Senior/Junior high instruction: Business Leadership, Career Exploration Classes
- Used adaptive teaching approaches based on Ivy Tech curriculum
- Demonstrate student engagement through active learning
- Exhibit good classroom management and supervision
- Provide classroom support to other professors and general support as needed
- Designed field trips as part of experiential learning
- Successfully recruited students to after school programs for High School
- Established & maintained interpersonal relationships to build on intrinsic/extrinsic motivations
- Students completed required task with good reflection and application
- Maintained high student retention rate
Founder & CEO
Ekklesia Training Center
Holland
06.2016 - Current
- Company Overview: www.ekklesiatc.com
- Provide visionary leadership for individual and city transformation, dean, operations, fiscal management
- Curriculum development: provides rigor with high academic standards
- Created and developed administrative policies, syllabi, lesson plans
- Instruct and facilitate in-person and online classes
- Monitor student progress: academic and tuition satisfaction for graduation requirements
- Use social media platforms for student recruitment
- Use data analytics for decision making
- Www.ekklesiatc.com
- 94 percent student retention rate
- Retention rate was sustained through COVID
- Successful launch of Entrepreneur's Round Table designed to mentor/coach community businesspeople in best practices and strategies for profit making: start-ups/design think, branding, strategic planning, leading/management, fiscal responsibility, ethics, soft skills
- Produced graduating classes with credentials: licensing, ordinations, certificates of completion
Founder, CEO
Ekklesia - AKC
Holland
01.2004 - Current
- Company Overview: www.ekklesia-akc.com
- As an executive officer and senior leader - responsibility for the overall management of successful day to day operations
- Program creation and development for adults, teens, and children
- Implemented community outreach strategies from an integrated approach
- Community workshops: Marriage, Financial Peace, Ethics & Morals (for police training)
- Use assessment tools (Myers Briggs/Clifton Strength) for talent assessment and placement
- Established administrative policies and procedures
- Strong strategic, planning, organizing, controlling, and leading
- Facilitator/Trainer: DISC Profile, Communication, Teamwork, Entrepreneurship, Leadership
- Leadership training for volunteer staff
- Www.ekklesia-akc.com
- 20 percent of our leaders were promoted on their fulltime jobs and received raises
- 20 percent increase in entrepreneurship
- Establish business model in creating and managing satellite sites (campuses) in four different cities (three campuses were established/managed concurrently)
- Transformed lives through instruction/training for successful living
- Demonstrated sustainability through the 2008 recession and 2020 COVID Pandemic
Pathways Grant Manager
Horizon Educational Alliance
Goshen
01.2023 - 06.2023
- Collaborate and communicate to provide general oversight to ensure curricular development alignment across the Advanced Manufacturing pathway
- Collectively support and monitor progress towards the 3E Grant Outputs and Outcomes
- Attend and support all Oversight Team meetings, Engage and Experience Team meetings
- Organize Grant resources, data and products in joint and assigned areas
- Support the gathering of resources for virtual resources Hub
- Coordinate and convene stakeholders/partners
- Maintain communication with all key stakeholder groups
- Foster sustainable relationships between districts and key advanced manufacturing partners in the community
- During implementation phase provide support for delivery, continuous improvement of structures and resources and foster sustainable data collection
- Support opportunities for earning industry-recognized credentials through WBL programs
- Created Business Lunch opportunity to gain partnerships for WBL/Apprenticeships opportunities
- Created marketing strategy for the graphics team for branding purposes
- Established recommended protocols for data transference from middle school to high school
- Established timelines as a pacing guide for GAP opportunities for middle and high school students
Director of Student Business & Entrepreneurship/Site Leader
Crossing School of Business & Entrepreneurship/ETC.
Elkhart
04.2022 - 11.2022
- Financial presentations for corporate meetings
- Fiscal planning & management of a million-dollar budget
- Participate in corporate meetings for sustainability and innovation
- Create high level strategic planning for rebranding and growth strategies
- Demonstrates strong leadership and organizational skills for best practices
- Provide professional development for staff
- Model best practices and benchmarking for network of schools (ten in Indiana) and being an industry leader
- Establish and nourish community partnerships and collaborations for brand recognition and impact
- Manage staff: lead meetings and campus direction along with administration
- Teach business competencies & employability skills to high school students
- Train students in business development: strategic planning, fiscal management, marketing, human resource management, operations
- Train students to operate as a corporation to manage other internal microbusinesses and campus affairs
- Provide dual credit education: Entrepreneurship/Business Administration through Ivy Tech Community College
- Prepared students for conducting meetings and presenting P&L statements (EOS)
- Developed onboarding for students for work base learning and academic process
- Received two promotions in two months of employment
- Changed school culture to a student led-driven culture
- Coached/mentored students to establish a student council
- Established pipeline to Ivy Tech Community College as a pathway
- Created after school program: Boyz 2 Men
- Developed community partnerships for curriculum development: Entrepreneurship (Ivy Tech), Marketing (Morph Media - Grand Rapids, MI), Personal Finance (LACASA - Elkhart, IN.)
- Developed master schedule with robust offerings for certifications and resume building
- Designed a renovation project for the student business center
Educator
Navarre Middle School
South Bend
10.2019 - 04.2022
- Taught grades 6-8: English Language Arts, College & Careers, Personal Finance, Entrepreneurship, Introduction to Technology
- Established strong classroom management strategies
- Used data collection for formative and summative assessments; data drove lesson plans and student progress
- Promoted parent engagement and partnership
- Develop strong relationships with students
- Created student leadership initiative designed to build leadership through behavior modification for academic success
- Coached student to become an author
- Coached student to become an entrepreneur
- Created strategic plan that was adopted by management
Behavioral Interventionist
Holland Public Schools
Holland
02.2016 - 06.2018
- Worked directly with students (K-7 grades) identified as most at-risk academically and/or behaviorally to provide evidence-based academic and behavioral interventions to increase student outcomes and prevent qualification for special education services.
- Used problem solving and goal setting skills to assist students in small groups or in one-on-one situations to alleviate academic, attendance and/or behavioral issues.
- Utilized research-based practices and taught strategies to students, empowering them to reduce the amount of time they missed core instruction
Operations Manager
Escape Ministries
Holland
01.2015 - 01.2016
- Operations, Human Resource Management, Financial Management, Program Manager, Board Chair
- Managed twelve staff members and recruited forty volunteers
- Created a comprehensive onboarding process
- Managed After School Programs: Volunteer (teacher, facilitator, food delivery, van driver) driven program reaching students from local public schools and the community
- Oversight of Alternative Suspension Accountability Program (school for students with suspensions/expulsions)
- Recruited and increased volunteers by 40 percent
- Established 'Millionaires Donors Club'
- Increased brand recognition and loyalty
- Employee retention increased
- Revised and created a functional working board
Education
Doctor of Law & Policy (DLP) -
Liberty University
Lynchburg, VAMaster of Arts - Management & Organizational Leadership
Spring Arbor University
Spring Arbor, MI11.2021
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
Spring Arbor University
Spring Arbor, MI05.2014
Skills
- Strategic planning
- Leadership and team building
- Problem solving
- Creative thinking
- Organizational leadership
- Effective communication
- Career coaching
- Emotional intelligence
- Interpersonal skills
Certification
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
- Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI)
- Socially & Emotionally Learning Awareness
- Culturally Responsive Training
- Non-Profit Board Certification ~ Dorothy Johnson Center for Philanthropy
- Entrepreneurship Curriculum Certification ~ RISE
Timeline
Regional Coordinator/Site Director
Crossing School of Business & Entrepreneurship
02.2025 - Current
Customer Success Manager
Horizon Educational Alliance
07.2023 - Current
Pathways Grant Manager
Horizon Educational Alliance
01.2023 - 06.2023
Adjunct Professor
Ivy Tech Community College
06.2022 - Current
Director of Student Business & Entrepreneurship/Site Leader
Crossing School of Business & Entrepreneurship/ETC.
04.2022 - 11.2022
Educator
Navarre Middle School
10.2019 - 04.2022
Founder & CEO
Ekklesia Training Center
06.2016 - Current
Behavioral Interventionist
Holland Public Schools
02.2016 - 06.2018
Operations Manager
Escape Ministries
01.2015 - 01.2016
Founder, CEO
Ekklesia - AKC
01.2004 - Current
Doctor of Law & Policy (DLP) -
Liberty University
Master of Arts - Management & Organizational Leadership
Spring Arbor University
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
Spring Arbor University
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