Ida-Meri de Blanc, VP Program Development

Overview of Professional/Career/Industry Experience

Ida’s 30 year career includes entrepreneurial and corporate roles in varied work environments. The fields of design and manufacturing, sales and customer service, program development and delivery represent the breadth of her experience. Before joining Distinctions, Ida was one of the original staff members at Mission Control Productivity, Inc.

Areas of Expertise

  • • Creative thinking and solutions
  • • Mentoring and counseling
  • • Productivity / system and process design
  • • Verbal and written self-expression

Education

  • University of the Arts, Philadelphia: BFA Landmark Education:
    • • Curriculum for Living
    • • Communication and Leadership Training
    • • Wisdom Curriculum

Accomplishments, Contributions and Achievements

  • • Landmark Education Conference for Global Transformation
  • • Advisory Board Steering Committee Member
  • • Chairperson, Keynote Committee
  • • Chairperson, Promotion and Registration Committee
  • • Advisor, Parents of Home Schooled Young People
  • • Certificate of Merit, Pennsylvania Crime Prevention Commission
  • • Philadelphia Police District Advisory Council
  • • USIA , Academic Year Programs of the Freedom Support Act