A MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDER
Inspire a better future to live and to work.
We are all actors in this world and how well we play our part is to first understand we are apart of the show. You can either choose to make it priority to discover within yourself ‘who you are’ to understand how you serve in this grand design or you can choose to put your time, energy and attention in props that will eventually lose its lustre and become an afterthought.
The lack of this realisation is why a vast majority of people live along the sidelines of their lives as spectators instead of leading with character.
You have to be the one to make a conscious decision to discover who you are underneath the textbooks, titles, structures, cars and fabric of what you have commonly associated yourself to be.
Understand that what you do for a living is not who you are, it is going to be because of ‘who you are’ on the inside; your fire, tenacity, gifts, eagerness to learn, solve, innovate, disrupt, inspire and be a part of what it will take to make this world function that will define who you truly are.
It will be the reason that you are never your circumstance but your solution.
Nerissa J. Persaud
Discover Who You Are
Help future minds ignite their inner spark!
SUPPORTING EDUCATION AND LITERACY WITH THE ROTARY CLUB OF MONTEGO BAY
Supporting Education and Literacy has to be a priority to ensure the future tells a better story.
Discover Who You Are Vocational Workshop with Mount Alvernia High School and Cornwall College Rotaractors. Montego Bay, Jamaica
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THE WORK AND LIFE OF NERISSA
Social Impact, Community and Dedication to Improving How We Live and Work
Nerissa J. Persaud is a Guyanese-Canadian Management Thinker, fellow Rotarian, Author and Motivational Speaker who has dedicated her professional life to improving how people live and work. Her life and work has spanned nations including Malaysia, Maldives, India, across Canada, the Turks and Caicos Islands and Mexico before making her home in Montego Bay, Jamaica with her husband and their two children.
Nerissa has worked with several luxury hotel brands including Marriott and the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts before launching into the hospitality recruitment business while living in India. She started her first company in 2009 later evolving into people development.
To date, she has authored several thought leadership pieces including interviews with business leaders and politicians around the world. Noteworthy are her work published on Thrive Global, M.O.C.A, Authority Magazine, Hospitality Net and Hotel Business Review.
In 2020, Nerissa founded the initiative Ignite the Human Spark, which offers a whole human approach to companies and organisations globally, seeking to improve and bridge the gaps in people, purpose and productivity strategies. A member of the Global Business Collaboration for Better Workplace Mental Health UK, Nerissa fuels conversations as a Mental Health Advocate to educate and grow awareness on the world mental health crisis and its impact on the lives of people and shifting needs to the global workforce and health of economies.
Her forthcoming book Rise Above Burnout is underway.
