Having a history of anxiety-related challenges since childhood, being teased at school by her peers because of her stutter, and being severely dyslexic, Arnita relates life lessons learned from her own experiences in her coaching and training sessions. In powerful presentations, she... motivates, captivates, inspires, challenges, and empowers...her audience to enterprise themselves mind, body, and soul. She also uses the same techniques when working with individual clients.Arnita Jones-Gerlitz, Professional Stress Coach, has discovered that with challenges comes strength. Known as "The Stress Coach", Arnita offers performance coaching and practical techniques in the area of effective communication (stress management) that will improve productivity, and decrease illnesses. As a consultant in mental awareness, confidence enhancement, mental re-focusing, productive alertness, and neutralizing stress for better production, she has inspired many.
As a consultant in professional development strategies in life management for more than 20 years, Arnita has offered quality coaching and consulting services to women in all professional fields. She specializes in providing individual coaching for women employed in super stress positions such as police officers, fire fighters, 911 operators, teachers, and engineers. She also provide coaching and consulting services to female military spouses. Arnita is an expert in her feild and she is skilled in all areas of life skills management including: stress management, stress recognition, skill assessments, communications development, and goal setting.
Arnita is the author of two books, My Soul I'll Keep and Knocked Knees and All, which contain inspirational and thought-provoking poetry creatively written in vivid form to stimulate mental awareness, soothe, relax, and focus the mind, stimulate motivation, and promote growth with confidence. Recognizing the power of the spoken word, Arnita is also the author of Stress Breaks, a set of cards containing an easy to read poem and a corresponding stress break tip.
She has received numerous awards and commendations for her poetry, including being nominated as Poet of the Year for 2002 by the International Society of Poets, and placing 2nd in the 9th Annual Sister for Sister Conference Spoken Word Contest.
Arnita has incorporated humor and priceless information into her personal stories. She has been a Stress Management and Wellness Consultant for more than 20 years and she has devoted herself to this cause. She has been invited again and again to speak on Stress Management, Building Self-esteem, and Getting Motivated.
Arnita has provided motivational and stress management coaching, seminars and workshops for many individuals, companies, their employees, and organizations, including the nationally held Annual Sister for Sister Conference, The National Council of Negro Women, The Next Generation Network, The Executive Leadership Council, Virginia Minority Supplier Development Council, The State of Virginia, The City of Richmond, Verizon, Visions + Solutions Career Management Firm, The Women’s Awareness Center and New Visions New Ventures Women’s Business Center. She has interviewed as quest speaker on television talk shows “Something Different”, “Various Arts” and “The Author’s Review”. The Richmond Times Dispatch newspaper has also interviewed her. Arnita is a contributing author to several top anthologies including: “The International Library of Poetry”, “The International Society of Poets” and the award-winning “American Poets Society”. Her work has also been published in “Average Girl Magazine”.
