Jylla
Moore Foster
President
and CEO of Crystal Stairs, Inc.
 Author,
Leadership Coach, Trainer, Speaker and Consultant
Jylla Moore
Foster, Founder, President and CEO of Crystal Stairs, Inc., is a nationally
renowned business executive, whose corporate, entrepreneurial, and coaching
experiences, as well as her expertise in marketing, sales, channels, operations
and technology across multiple industries and various customer sizes,
have propelled her to the forefront of her field. Her passion is to strengthen
leadership assets™ that will cause conscious and intentional shifts
in individuals, teams, businesses, organizations and institutions resulting
in the development of legacy leaders.
The firm employs
the use of dynamic seminars, innovative Coaching techniques, a battery
of assessments, research and engaged speaking presentations to help people
acquire greater self-awareness, gain professional breakthroughs and reach
personal goals. Jylla’s book, “DUE NORTH! Strengthen Your
Leadership Assets™,” was recognized with two prestigious awards:
ForeWord Magazine’s Career Book of the Year Gold Award and Independent
Publisher Finalist for Business/Career Award.
A 22-year veteran
of the IBM Corporation, key assignments included VP of operations for
the $7B northeast sales and distribution territory; VP of sales for the
$1B Midwestern small and medium business team; VP of Global Channels;
and VP and Client Executive for a major retail account. During her tenure
at IBM, she was the recipient of the company’s highest sales award
on three occasions, as well as the recipient of its U.S. Leadership Award.
She also led a Corporate Task Force on Women Customers that resulted in
an international marketing and sales focus and testimony to the U. S.
House of Representatives Small Business Committee’s Congressional
Hearing on Women Business Owners.
As International
President of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, a 100,000-member community service
organization, she established partnerships with the American Lung Association,
the U. S. Space Camp, Black Enterprise Magazine, Center for Disease Control,
The National Caucus on Black Aged, the March of Dimes and a host of Fortune
500 corporations. During her presidency, she was awarded keys to more
than 25 cities and participated in the Fourth United Nation’s World
Conference on Women in Beijing, China, where she lectured on “The
Role of African-American Women Leaders.” Inducted into the National
Association of Business and Professional Women’s Corporate Hall
of Fame in 1997, she has been recognized as one of the nation’s
“Most Influential African-Americans” by Ebony Magazine, and
hailed by Black Enterprise Magazine as a “Woman to Watch.”
Jylla earned
her undergraduate degree in mathematics, magna cum laude, from Livingstone
College and an MBA in marketing from Indiana University where she was
a Consortium Fellow. In 1999, Livingstone presented her with an honorary
Doctor of Humane Letters in recognition of her professional achievements
and community service. She also attended the IBM Client Executive Certification
Program at Harvard Business School, the Wharton School for IBM Business
Partners and completed training at the Center for Creative Leadership.
A member of
the International Association of Coaches (ICA) and the American Society
for Training and Development (ASTD), she completed her professional training
with Corporate Coach University in February, 2002. She is certified in
the DiSC® behavior assessment and is a distributor for assessments
and training seminars offered by Target Training International (TTI) and
Inscape Publishing, where she is an award winning distributor. Her training
and speaking topics include:
Strengthen
Your Leadership Assets™: Personal Transformation…
Professional Breakthroughs
KEEP CLIMBING! Navigate the valley…Soar at the mountaintop
DiSC®: Understanding Yourself and Others
Engaging Youth in Understanding Behavior Styles
BeAttitudes: The Behavior Foundation for Legacy Leadership
Leading and Coaching High Performance Teams
Managing Transitions: Everything Must Change…NOW!
Work Expectations: You Get What You Expect
Dynamic and Effective Communication
The Work/Life Equation: Lunch Box or Life’s Work?
Diversifying Diversity
Building Networks for Valued Relationships
Sales Leadership
Engaging Youth in Understanding
Behavior Styles
Leading and Coaching High Performance Teams
Work Expectations: You Get What You Expect
Time Management, Customer Service, Coping and Stress
The firm’s
blue chip list of clients includes such corporate giants as IBM, GE, NBC,
Georgia-Pacific, EDS, Blockbuster, Shell, Bank of America and Value City
Department Stores; professional associations, such as the IT Senior Management
Forum, National Black MBA Association, Illinois Women’s Chamber
of Commerce, National Association of Women Business Owners, Women Business
Enterprise National Council and the National Association of African-Americans
in Human Resource Management; and several educational institutions, including
Jackson State University, Northwestern University, Livingstone College
and Savannah State University.
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