Ms. Davis-Westmoreland has a broad background in a leadership capacity spending thirty-five years with IBM Corporation in Information Technology and Human Resources. She has a Bachelor of Science in Business Education from North Carolina A&T State University where she graduated with Honors. She has been certified as an Executive Project Manager through the Project Management Institute (PMI) since 2002 and her certification is current through 2024. She is also a Certified Professional Coach (CPC), a Certified DiSC facilitator through “Take Flight Learning” and a certified Mental Health First Aider facilitator through the National Behavioral Health organization. She has received multiple exceptional leadership awards based on excellent people skills and the ability to think strategically. In 2014, Ms. Davis-Westmoreland became the Founder and CEO of Grace Under Pressure…Getting to Yes Corporation, a Leadership Development and consulting company specializing in Project Management Training/Certification and Management and Leadership Development for youth and adults. She has provided this training throughout the US (including Puerto Rico and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands). Ms. Davis-Westmoreland is a trained educator; certified as a secondary education teacher in the states of North Carolina and Georgia. After a term as a Business Education Teacher in the Montgomery Company School System, she joined the corporate world and spent 35 years working for IBM Corporation as a Senior Business Leader providing coaching/mentoring to Information Technology domestic and international employees. Her experience as a Delivery Project Executive afforded her an opportunity to manage $200M budgets resulting in exceptional results in achieving business goals and provided her the forum to develop exceptional leadership skills while providing direction to 250+ IT employees. She was named to the 2011 Global Directory of Who’s Who in recognition of challenging work, dedication, perseverance, and demonstrating leadership and achievement in her profession. Davis-Westmoreland received several recognitions for outstanding leadership including Project Management Certification, Exceptional People Management skills, and induction into IBM’s 100% Club (three consecutive years) for exceptional accomplishments in collaborating with external clients while leading the efforts of IT professionals (both domestic and international).
Past 7 years (2014 to present) President and CEO of Grace Under Pressure…”Getting To Yes”, LLC
Honor Graduate North Carolina A&T State University (Greensboro, NC)
She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta, Sorority Inc. where she has been a long-term active member both in North Carolina and Georgia. She has served on several boards that focus on youth development and transitional housing for homeless families. Recently, she collaborated with United Way of Hall County to provide Mental Health First Aid training to five hundred members of the Hall County community in 12 months. In partnership with the program manager for her company, they received their certification through the National Behavior Health organization and have conducted twenty-one sessions in the past 10 months and provided certificates to over three hundred participants.
In April 2004, Ms. Davis-Westmoreland received the Metro Atlanta Chapter of Bennett College Alumnae Association’s “Service Excellence without Excuse Award.” Later that year, Ms. Davis-Westmoreland was presented with the Servant Heart award from the Gwinnett County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Ms. Davis-Westmoreland is the co-founder of Davis Plus Company, a nonprofit company in North Carolina that works with the government to place low-income families in quality housing in the rural areas.
Ms. Davis-Westmoreland is the mother of two daughters, two grandsons, and a granddaughter. Service to others Sue’s my primary love language. She is an active volunteer for nonprofit organizations as a servant leader. She is an avid walker and traveler. She has visited 48 of 50 states in the United States, and will be checking the last two (Alaska & Hawaii) off her list by 2023! She also traveled to Kenya for a 14-day mission trip in 2014 to build mud huts in the villages for 7 families.
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Elevate BDG is a professional skills training, coaching, consulting, and workforce management company that makes your employees better. Our diverse roster of trainers, customized training topics, and remote training solutions ensure your staff, managers, and executives will reach their peak workforce potential.
