Humility is One of Our Values... But Not Today! Roving Coach 'Top Dog' Wins Two Awards in One Week

Nov. 22, 2011 - PRLog -- CJ Scarlet of Roving Coach International (RCI) managed to rack up two major awards in less than a week. On November 9th   in Raleigh, NC, she was one of ten women inducted into the 2011 Class of the Academy of Women sponsored by the YWCA of the Greater Triangle. The Academy is the region’s most prestigious honor for women who are the best at what they do while upholding the mission of the YWCA – to eliminate racism and empower women. CJ, an award-winning author, motivational speaker, and life transitions coach, received the Entrepreneurship Award as Chief Rover and CEO of RCI, the preeminent North Carolina-based employee engagement company founded to make career development coaching available to employees at all levels (not just the “big dogs!).

Three days later, CJ traveled to Atlanta to attend the 2011 LACE (Ladies Achieving Continuous Excellence) Awards hosted by the Greater Women’s Business Council (GWBC), an organization for certified women business enterprises in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Doggone-it if she didn’t win again! She graciously accepted the Trailblazer Award for exhibiting community and business leadership, being innovative, and taking risks.  

Put the emphasis on “taking risks,” because that’s exactly what CJ did in 2009 when she and two business partners put everything on the line to create a world-changing international company. Today, Roving Coach is well on its way to that goal with CJ using her exceptional entrepreneurial skills to propel RCI to national acclaim and expansion into the UK.

“I’m still processing the fact that, in one week, two distinguished organizations like the YWCA and the GWBC recognized our vision and hard work,” CJ exclaimed as she showed off her trophies.  “It’s certainly humbling and exhilarating to be recognized by two groups whose goals are so perfectly aligned with what we do at Roving Coach. We’re creating world peace in the workplace by helping companies develop and empower their employees.”

A compelling part of CJ’s story began in 2002 when she was diagnosed with two autoimmune conditions that nearly took her life. An encounter with a Tibetan Buddhist lama taught her that she was in control of her own happiness, and as she began to find joy and inner peace through helping others, her conditions began to reverse themselves until, by 2007, they went into remission.  In 2008, she founded The Healing Tree Foundation to aid victims of abuse and launched the Kindness Cure Campaign to encourage people to perform one million acts of kindness. A lupus thriver, she is a member of the Board of Directors for the NC Lupus Foundation and volunteers with Hospice of Wake County, UNC Hospitals, the NC Alliance for the Mentally Ill, and the Greater Women’s Business Council’s Voice Committee. A former U.S. Marine and forest firefighter, CJ was named one of the “Happy 100” people on the planet and is the author of Neptune’s Gift: Discovering Your Inner Ocean. You can read more about CJ and her many exploits at www.rovingcoach.com.

About Roving Coach International
Roving Coach International (RCI), an NC-based employee engagement company, isn’t your typical coaching organization. RCI provides coaching in crisp, confidential 30-minute sessions—focusing on what matters to employees at all levels (not just the “big dogs!”). Why? Because what matters to employees matters to the bottom line. If you are part of an organization that is, or aspires to be, a great place to work, contact RCI immediately by calling Nicoa Dunne at 800.611.3161x 3 or visiting www.rovingcoach.com.