CEO
Selling Retail International & J. Franklin Publishers, Inc. 

please see www.sellingretailinc.com for more

Founder

Lawhon Advanced Educational Solutions

2010-present

• Develop and manage learning style/strengths assessments, individualized curriculum design and implementation, general standards based curriculum d

• homeschooling

• strengths-based learning applications

• teacher training

• middle school, high school, and college strengths applications

• individualized ACT preparation

Owner/President 
Guru-YOU! LLC
2005-ongoing

• Manage all day-to-day live appearances, Skype sessions, clients, and business

• Authored Book of this Title

• Radio Show, Design, Marketing, etc

President/Headmaster/Founder
Mira Academy of Higher Learning (501-C3)
2009-2018

• Founded school based on individualized curriculum and non-traditional needs.

• Administrate School Business, Teach all subjects 6-11, Design all brain-based individualized curriculum

Host Guru-YOU! Radio Show
Contact Talk Radio, Seattle, WA
2009-2013

• Wrote, designed, and hosted 1 hour weekly radio show

• Booked guests, Live show

Manager Bids & Proposals, Web Marketing/Strategy/Design 
ArmorWorks, Chandler, AZ
2007-2008

• Developed and wrote military proposals, interfaced with customers

• Managed Bids/Proposals Process between Homeland Security, Engineering, IT, Program Management, & Finance

• Teamed with 5 Program Managers across Aircraft, Marine, Body Armor, Transparent Armor, and Blast Attenuating Seat Systems

• Consultant on Web Marketing Strategy and Graphic Look for ArmorWorks and Subsidiaries

Tutor
Power SAT Mesa, AZ
2005
• Tutored to company curriculum, High School SAT prep (learned a lot)
• Re-hired later for elementary students to develop Creative Writing/Self-Esteem Building curriculum to raise English grades.  Ages 8-12. 
• ALL students in my classes raised grades by at least one level.  Most still communicate with me.  Many went on to win poetry and essay contests.

Analyst III/Agent III 
The Boeing Company, Mesa & William's Gateway Sites, AZ
2003-2007  

Employee Involvement/Lean co-lead and facilitator/Team-Based Business Leader/Training Education Dvpt Core Team for IDS (Integrated Defense Systems)

• Developed and Implemented training for all IDS SM&P Procedures
• Worked with Subject Matter Experts to write, create and develop web courses (e-learning) to train Boeing IDS (spec. NASA/Rotorcraft/Aerospace Support/Phantom Works)
• Website design for TED (Training Education Development)

• HTML coded and designed web courses on Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks
• Wrote, edited, and trained on procedures for Boeing-NASA & Apache Quality, Ground Flight Risk, and Ground Operating Procedures, Business Risk, Legal Requirements of Procurement, etc
• Member Quality Communications Team for IDS and Quality Employee Involvement team for IDS (create brochures, videos, plans for improvement of employees in Quality across Boeing internationally), Ergonomics Representative, also Diversity Council representative, and BEAGLES President. 
• Wrote, created, developed, edited, monitored contracts, presentations, proposals, RFI's, RFQ's, RFP's, Proprietary Information Agreements, subcontract management plans (legal/technical writer)
• Developed, wrote, and trained for Employee Involvement teams and managers
• Liaison between employees: mechanics, engineers, and management (yeah, that was hard)
• Co-developed Boeing Mesa Site Strategic Plan
• Lean Manufacturing Change Agent (CBO, MinMax, Accelerated Improvement Workshops, Six Sigma, 5-S, 3P Events, etc.) 
• Developed, wrote, and presented online and in person training for Employee Involvement teams and managers/leadership across the Mesa, Philadelphia, Kennedy Space Center, Houston, and WGA sites (Rotorcraft and NASA SM&P)
• Facilitated 25+ Self Directed and High Performance Work Teams per week
• Developed SM&P new hire training plan
• Training/Education chairperson for Boeing Mesa Diversity Council-Awarded Innovation in Diversity Award 2006.


Classroom Credentialed Teacher, Tutor
1999-2003
Westmark School Encino, CA
Top school on brain-based learning differences

• Research on all aspects of brain-based learning, language learning, speech, reading, & writing

• Taught Middle School Reading, Spanish, Drama, and High School Drama, Art History 

• Coached swimming

• Certified Lindamood-Bell Visualizing Verbalizing teaching methodology

• Tutor for Arizona, Oklahoma, and California BAR Exam, MCAT verbal reasoning, Education Exams, SAT, ACT, and all school subjects

Thoreau Demonstration Academy Tulsa, OK

• Wrote daily lesson plans, units, year long themes, agendas, directions

• Micro society facilitator

• Tribes leader

• Taught 8th grade Math-Science Integrated curriculum

• Developed semester math unit based on building a tree house, and we built the tree house!

• ITI Master (Integrated Thematic Instruction with Susan Kovalik, Seattle)

• Brought new students to above grade level for grades 6-8 Math

• Developed Multiple Intelligence Assessments and designed curriculum for all learning styles 

• Tutor for BAR Exam, all high school subjects, plus tests including SAT, MCAT, and ACT

Student Teaching
1999-2000

Webster Elementary, 5th Grade Malibu, CA

• Tessellations Math projects

• Yosemite week long camp field trip supervisor (that was really a long, but rewarding, week)

• Individually analyzed classes of 25-40 for learning styles/IQ/EQ

• Tutored individuals on the side in reading, writing, and math

Las Colinas, 8th Grade Oxnard, CA

• Developed unit on “Finding Your Passion” & Building Self-Esteem through creative writing.

• English/Language Arts student teacher

Round Meadow Elementary, 1st Grade Calabasas, CA

• All first grade subjects (I was not cut out to be an elementary teacher--those people are seriously demigods to me)

• Unit developed on Weather & Holidays

• Unit developed on Rainbows and Human Diversity

Broadcasting

Auction Network, Writer, Producer, On Air Host

2015-2016

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Writer/Producer/Production Crew NewsKJRH-2 News NBC/KOTV-6 CBS Tulsa, OK
1996-1998

• Wrote and Produced daily KJRH Noon News, then 6 in the Morning newscasts

• Teleprompter, then camera, then Floor Directed, then Evening Shift Supervisor of Production Crew, then producer

• Supervised live shots, set design, and Lighting

• Helped start and hosted TulsaPalooza, first local live music focused show and what's in and out around T-Town

Daycare Manager 1991-1996
The Adventure Club Malibu, CA
1991-1995

• Responsible for all outdoor activities of daily after school program

• Kindergarten-6th grade integrated

• Curriculum included sports, athletics, brain-based/body-based learning activities

• In charge of outdoor ed-2 locations

Sales Associate
The Good Guys (like Circuit City), Thousand Oaks, CA
1996-1997

• Sold personal electronics and computers

• Rose to second in sales in the entire company chain (selling only smallest margin items) in 3 months

• You know my dad was John F. Lawhon author of two best-selling books and world famous seminars on Retail Sales, right? So I kinda got a lot from growing up with him!

Dog Groomer/Animal Healer/Animal Rescue/Horse Communicator/Animal Everything
Sherman's Place, Malibu, CA

• Groomed and bathed everything from poodles to Briards for photo shoots

• Helped dogs, cats, rabbits, horses, and turtles find peace

• Was interviewed to be on a Fox TV Show about "The Unexplained" because someone told them about my healing dogs while I groomed them

• On the lead rescue command center team for horses, dogs, cats, and wildlife in the 1996 Malibu Wildfires

• Horse communicator and healer on call for all Pepperdine Stables and private clients in CA and OK

• Trained horses for endurance racing with Boyd Zontelli (famous Endurance Racer)

• 7 years Dressage with Cheryl Wyllie, Olympic Level Dressage Coach

Office Administrator
Galerie Michael, Beverly Hills, CA
1995-1996

• Ran daily business of Gallery

• Answered phones

• Worked with curator on exhibits

• Assisted Sales Associates

• Got everyone lunch and coffee

• Schlepped...a lot...did not do well with this

• Designed audio track to accompany Andres Nottebaum exhibit

• Researched original Barbizon School Masters' works and Post-Impressionist Lithographs and Drawings

• Got in trouble for wearing tennis shoes with my suit...a lot

• This was the most miserable job I've ever had. It takes a greater man than I to run the administrative aspects of a Rodeo Drive gallery. I definitely learned what my strengths were NOT in this deal.

Nanny 
1990-1991
Mayor Susan Savage & Grant Hall Tulsa, OK

• Daily after school care for 7, 10 year old daughters

• Homework help, school issues, personal issues, games & activities

• Extracurricular activity transportation and support/attendance

• Still in touch with family today after over 20 years--girls turned out BRILLIANTLY!

• These two may have been how I knew I had to somehow help kids in my life.