Current Portfolio

Erika Oliver is an expert in Positive Communication, an author, and creator of the “Communication Miracles Model”,a non-linear, positive approach to effective communication. As a “recovering pessimist” her mission to help teams and organizations achieve results using a positive approach.

Consulting Experience
 

Erika Oliver specializes in building communication and leadership capacity in organizations of all shapes and sizes with expertise in marketing, interpersonal communication, facilitation, and project management. Erika’s approaches all projects from a positive perspective and with the intention of building organizational capacity.

Erika has helped organizations with mergers and culture change, leadership development and interpersonal communication, as well as marketing and public relations for organizational image and enhancing internal and external stakeholder communication.

Business/Organizational Leadership Experience

Erika has a background in nonprofit health care administration with Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Blue Care Network; small business project management, and served as the District Manager for the American Diabetes Association. For three years she acted as a lead consultant at the Northside Ministerial Alliance Faith & Community-based Training Institute under President George W. Bush’s Faith and Community-based Initiative.

Erika has been an adjunct faculty member in Business and Communications at Kalamazoo Valley Community College. She has taught NxLevel entrepreneur courses at Northside Economic Potential Group and spent four years as a medical business instructor and program coordinator at Grand Rapids Educational Centers (now Everest Institute).

Education and Training Resources

Erika earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Nazareth College and a Master of Public Administration degree from Western Michigan University with an emphasis in nonprofit administration and holistic health.

Publications and Appearances
 

Erika is a member of the National Speakers Association and the author of “Three Good Things: Happiness Every Day, No Matter What!” and a companion coloring book for adults. She has published articles in Nonprofit World and other periodicals.

The Most Important Stuff

Erika lives in Michigan with her husband, Mark, and their teenage sons, Erik and Evan. Together they practice a positive approach to living by sharing “Three Good Things” about the day, every day. Erika believes in personal truth and longs for inner peace punctuated by hysterical laughter. She spends every day possible at the beach, sometimes literally and sometimes figuratively.