Gloria is a co-founder of the Creative Youth Leadership Program where she coordinates the design and implementation of all our youth programs. In the early 1990’s, Gloria was on the original design team of the Healthy Lifestyles Camp on which the Creative Youth Leadership Program is based. She is widely experienced in the area of community organization, especially educational and social program design. While president of a board of education, Gloria co-designed its student assistance program, which has since been replicated in numerous school districts. In addition, Gloria designed and is presently coordinating an intervention program, the Freshman Success Program, at Riverside Institute of Technology high School in Buffalo.

Gloria has developed creativity, leadership and communication programs for numerous organizations around the world. She has developed and delivered, creativity and innovation programs for the Singapore Institute of Management in Singapore, to business leaders from many countries in the Far East and, for the Center for Entrepreneurship at Canisius College. She has also designed and delivered training to teachers and students in South Africa and presented at the International African Creativity Conference.

Gloria holds a Master of Science degree in Creativity and Innovation. She is a certified trainer of the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Questionnaire (KAI) and the KEYS, a survey for assessing the climate for creativity. She also has over 18 years of experience in the financial services business and holds the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation.

When not designing and delivering programming, Gloria can be found spending time designing jewelry and learning to play the "blues" harmonica.