This is a super special episode, the first one of Season 3! Starting 2021 with a topic that's so close to my heart: we talk about professional development – the revolutionary kind!

My guest on this episode is Dennett Edwards, the Founder of the Corona Daze Professional Development (CDPD) Group. 

After twenty years of working in local and international community development and education, she decided to use her skills and abilities to respond to record unemployment rates stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. 

She is passionate about increasing professional access and representation of people of color, people from the LGBTQIA community, and other marginalized groups in all industries and employment spaces.

Her passion and journey are absolutely inspiring! We talk about how she founded a professional development group due to the pandemic, how she nurtured and nourished it, and we also talk about her way of creating a development revolution.

Tune in and check this out, it will definitely inspire you on so many levels! Some snippets of our conversation:

• How Dennett defines her superpower as a communicator


• How it took failure in certain areas for her to realize she doesn’t always need to be in control


• Why she believes everyone has a role to play – you have something to offer here; ‘you can remove me from the equation and we can still do well;’


• How she wants to create the Google of creative development organizations


• How she made sure she built trust – ‘no one can call you out if you don’t have trust’

Here's where you can connect with Dennett and her amazing group:

• Corona Daze Professional Development Group 


• Dennett Edwards on LinkedIn


• coronadazepd@gmail.com