Charlie Johanson Adams, AKPIRC External Evaluator

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Owner / Sole-Consultant of Leading EDGE Consulting a Chugiak, AK based private company specializing in leadership mentoring, systems development, strategic planning, program development-implementation, program evaluation and group facilitation. A thirty-four year veteran leader in the early childhood, leadership, disabilities, and family services field, Charlie has served on various statewide, regional, and national committees/boards and has written and published articles, curriculums and manuals promoting leadership within the field. Of the thirty-four years, fifteen were spent in the position of Executive Director of FOCUS, Inc. and Chugiak Children’s Services (CCS), serving the Eagle River, Chugiak, and Mat-Su Valley communities.
 
Charlie has a Masters in Early Childhood Special Education/Family Studies, was a 1995 Fellow at the Anderson School of Management-UCLA, is active in the field of Industrial and Organizational Psychology and is a private pilot.  Charlie divides her time between her home/office in Chugiak and her family’s guiding business in western Alaska where she is camp cook and co-organizing partner.