Hosts Karen McConnell-Jones and Dr. Sharon H. Porter welcome guest, Melissa C. Roberts.
Melissa C. Roberts is the Associate Director of Career Services at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia where she manages the university internship program. She is currently pursuing her certification as a Professional Life Coach through The John Maxwell Team. She has a Master’s degree in the Studies in Human Behaviors from Capella University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
She began her professional coaching career in higher education at Point University, as the Coordinator of Career Services in 2013. In January of 2015, she was promoted to Director and began managing an adult education program in McDonough, Georgia. There, she managed the site location and taught multiple courses in the area of critical thinking and counseling as an adjunct instructor.
While managing the adult educational program, teaching and coaching students, she worked as a Master’s Level Counselor for the Touch of Healing Counseling Center, where she facilitated Grief Share small groups and conducted one on one counseling sessions.
She continues to facilitate Grief Share and Coach College students but other individuals as well through Living Whole, where the focus is on whole life principals. The idea is to help individuals become their very best self and learn how to tap into their potential to meet their life goals and dreams. Melissa is the founder of God’s Whole Woman Magazine, a completely electronic magazine that encouraged positive life ideals specifically for women.
As a Life Coach Professional, Melissa is passionate about helping others move forward through individual coaching sessions, group coaching sessions, as well as presentations and workshops. She believes “everyone has a story and how we communicate that story, along with understanding how each area of life is connected, we can live out our goals and dreams while improving the world we live in!”
Melissa resides in Griffin, Georgia with her husband of 29 years, Stephen Roberts, III. Stephen and Melissa Co-own an organization called RunFast, Inc. in which they work to educate the community on good health practices in both competitive and non-competitive sport of Track and Field and performance. They have six adult children and two grandsons. She enjoys spending time with family, reading, mentoring, and coaching others.