Jillian is a self-proclaimed repurposed elementary educator from Clearwater, FL, and currently serves as a Professional Learning Guide for Forward Edge/Edge•U in Ohio. Her passion is to infuse joy to those in educational leadership by focusing efforts on listening, serving, and growing. She uses her voice to foster hope by celebrating equity and empathy. 

She is a children’s book author and illustrator of Liv’s Seashells, Liv's Messages, Road to Awesome: A Journey for Kids, Look at YOU, Piper Lou!, and Destiny’s Amazingly Different Dreams. She is the founder + Chief Optimistic Originator of Imparted Joy, LLC, which helps others spark their stories with confidence.

Each day is a FRESH opportunity to be slow to criticize and be quick to empathize. Keep dancing and dreaming with JOY.