About Us

Founded by a group of entre­pre­neurs, the School of Oppor­tu­nity brings a unique approach to edu­ca­tion. By com­bin­ing prac­ti­cal busi­ness and relat­ing skills through­out the cur­ricu­lum, stu­dents are devel­oped as “whole peo­ple” even bet­ter equipped to inter­act effec­tively in today’s chal­leng­ing world. All classes are designed to sup­port stu­dents in reach­ing their poten­tial, which we, the Part­ners, believe is unbounded in each individual.

TinaRae moved to Florida as a teen and has resided in South­west Florida since 2000. She holds a Mas­ters of Edu­ca­tion Degree from the Uni­ver­sity of Florida, Gainesville. She is a Florida Cer­ti­fied teacher and has taught all age groups, from 8 weeks to adult. She has worked at numer­ous col­leges, includ­ing Web­ster Col­lege (New Port Richey, FL), State Col­lege of Florida (for­merly Man­a­tee Com­mu­nity Col­lege), and South­west Florida Col­lege. TinaRae is one of the founders of Achieve­ments Learn­ing Cen­ter in North Port and has worked as the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor for the past 12 years. Com­mu­nity Involve­ment: Found­ing mem­ber of Imag­ine North Port and North Port Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion. Cur­rently serves as a board mem­ber of the North Port Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion and North Port Area Cham­ber of Com­merce and serves on a num­ber of com­mit­tees. She is a grad­u­ate of Gulf Coast Lead­er­ship Institute.

 

Rela­tion­ships are at the heart of Jacqueline’s work.  She col­lab­o­rates and part­ners with indi­vid­u­als, teams and orga­ni­za­tions focused on high per­for­mance, cre­ativ­ity and achiev­ing their poten­tial through pos­i­tive adap­ta­tion.
Jacque­line is a decid­edly ener­getic and engag­ing facil­i­ta­tor who part­ners in the devel­op­ment of strate­gies for change and the cul­ti­va­tion of lead­er­ship at all lev­els.  She is espe­cially adept at work­ing with lead­ers to imag­ine and cre­ate cul­tures of open­ness, stew­ard­ship and trust.  She has a broad back­ground in lead­er­ship devel­op­ment and coach­ing, assess­ments, diver­sity and inclu­sion, civil­ity, board devel­op­ment, and train­ing.
She has devel­oped, designed, planned imple­men­ta­tion for, and deliv­ered events for lead­ers at all lev­els in the pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tors.  These include not-for-profit and for-profit con­cerns, front line telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions sales and ser­vice units, and inter­na­tional plan­ning and strate­gic design groups.  She designs and leads coach­ing pro­grams that help peo­ple live joy­ful and healthy lives as mem­bers of our diverse human com­mu­nity.
As a result of being in the human poten­tial busi­ness for over 25 years, Jacque­line pos­sesses an exten­sive and con­stantly expand­ing toolkit.  She is a cer­ti­fied prac­ti­tioner in the areas of civil­ity and board devel­op­ment with the Gulf Coast Com­mu­nity Foun­da­tion and also holds cre­den­tials in sev­eral growth and learn­ing sys­tems includ­ing the Birk­man Method, Resilience Alliance, The Seven Habits of Highly Effec­tive Peo­ple and Voices 360™.  She con­tin­ues to lead the human poten­tial devel­op­ment com­pany she founded in 2002.

 

Heather is a pas­sion­ate life­long learner known for her exper­tise, expe­ri­ence and enthu­si­asm for con­nect­ing peo­ple and emerg­ing tech­nol­ogy in a vari­ety of con­texts.  She is pro­fi­cient or famil­iar with a vast array of pro­gram­ming lan­guages, con­cepts and plat­forms, and is excited about work­ing in the arena of  “cloud” tech­nol­ogy.  She is a cer­ti­fied Google Apps for Busi­ness reseller and has been work­ing closely with them to bring that knowl­edge base to the local area.

Over the past decade, Heather has suc­cess­fully served as IT Direc­tor, Web Devel­oper, Qual­ity Assur­ance Spe­cial­ist, Pro­gram­mer, and Human Sys­tems Inter­face Designer in var­i­ous regional com­pa­nies.  Prior to those roles and respon­si­bil­i­ties, Heather proudly served for six years in the United States Marine Corps as Inter­nal Pilot / Intel­li­gence Spe­cial­ist.  And she holds the dis­tinc­tion of being the first woman to become an unmanned aer­ial vehi­cle pilot in the Marine Corps.

In addi­tion to numer­ous incen­tives and awards Heather has received dur­ing her career, she was awarded the Navy Achieve­ment Medal , the Boe­ing “Spe­cial Incen­tive Award” in the UCAV phase II pro­posal win, and held high-level secu­rity clear­ances in the pub­lic and pri­vate sectors.

Heather is a native New Yorker but has lived in Florida since 1990 and North Port since 1999.  She rel­ishes time with her fam­ily and sup­port­ing causes she is pas­sion­ate about, such as equal­ity and equal rights issues.