Brenda Jennings

brenda@lifeenhancementstrategies.com

Brenda Jennings, MSE, is a certified Lymphatic Enhancement Technology (LET) practitioner, coach, co-founder, and owner of Life Enhancement Strategies, LLC. She has a master's degree in counseling and is licensed as a School Counselor, Student Services/Special Education Director, and Principal. She also has a bachelor's degree in psychology with a minor in communication. She is also trained in coaching, motivational interviewing, and restorative practices.

 

She has previously been a teacher, school counselor, project lead, consultant, grant coordinator, liaison, administrator, and coach. She spent nine years in a K-12 public school district, two years in a non-profit mental health agency, and 16 years in a state education agency. She led and supported work in mental health, suicide prevention, AODA prevention, skills-based health, bullying prevention, and other skills-based programs designed to help students succeed. 

 

She left her role in educational administration to further her dream of making a difference in people's lives. She believes everyone has gifts and strengths, and she enjoys helping people work toward their potential. When gifts and strengths are nurtured, people can do amazing things! Her ultimate goal is to help people thrive. It takes a community and caring people to help get through life’s challenges. No one has to do it alone.

 

Brenda is a devoted friend, daughter, partner, sister, and puppy mother. She wants to make things better wherever she is. She lives by what her father used to say, always try to "leave things better than you found them" (a quote from Baden-Powell).

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Gregg Curtis

gregg@lifeenhancementstrategies.com

Dr. Gregg Curtis has fulfilled multiple roles in his career and is currently co-founder and lead life coach for Life Enhancement Strategies, LLC. Prior to this he enjoyed his position as the Wisconsin Department of Health Services’ Co-coordinator of the US Department of Education’s Project AWARE grant. He worked with Wisconsin school districts to strategically identify students struggling with mental health issues and to initiate early intervention strategies to assist them.

 

In 2020, Gregg retired after 30+ years in public education. The final 15 of those years, Gregg had successful positions as the School Counseling Consultant for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (where he provided statewide leadership and professional development for the state’s K-12 school counselors) and as an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (where he worked to prepare graduate students for work as community mental health counselors, school counselors, and clinical counselors on the campuses of institutions of higher education).

 

Gregg graduated from the University of Iowa (UI) in 1988 with an elementary education degree. After ten years as a middle school teacher in rural Iowa, Gregg returned to the UI; receiving a master’s degree in school counseling that he used in his work with 7th and 8th graders. Following this work, Gregg returned to the UI again and received his doctorate in 2008 studying Counselor Education and the Social Foundations of Education.

 

Beginning his career journey as an apprentice and journeyman pipefitter, Gregg’s vocational trajectory gives him a unique perspective on the importance of resilience, communication, problem-solving, social and emotional development, and coping skills. He believes everyone has strengths, challenges, and value; and he’s dedicated his life to helping people young and old find their way over, around, or through barriers to success and happiness.