Galveston College Technical and Professional Education will kick off its spring Student
Success Seminars series on Thursday, March 4, at 9 a.m. with a presentation titled
“Progressing During Difficulty” featuring Mae Francis of Lookin’ Up Consulting.
The seminar is free and open to all students, faculty, staff and the general public.
The Zoom link to the seminar is as follows:
The seminar will focus on three ideas to help students and other participants progress
in troubled times:
1) Mindset about difficulty,
2) Making room for resilience and
3) Building a personal mission statement.
Francis, known best for inspiring and transferring positivity to whomever she comes
in contact with, is currently the president and owner of Lookin’ Up Consulting, a
training and development company that builds interactive programs, speeches and mentorships
that educate and inspire professionals, as well as programs that support the emotional
and social development of youth.
With more than 25 years in the field of teaching and training, Francis believes that
her purpose on earth is to enhance the lives of others. She spent 19 years in the
chemical industry, including five years selling plasticizers for Sterling Chemicals
and 14 years as the training and development leader for Ashland Chemicals.
Francis has been certified as a trainer and coach by the Association of Training and
Development and is a United States Army veteran. She studied Bible and Theology, as
well as Business Administration, at St. Leo University and College of the Mainland.
Francis is an active member of the Texas City/La Marque, League City and Galveston
chambers of commerce, the Association for Talent Development, and the advisory board
for the College of the Mainland Petrochemical Process Technology program. She also
is an active big sister for Gulf Coast Big Brothers Big Sisters. She is the mother
of one, Whitnie, and is married to Merlin.
For more information about the Student Success Seminars series, please contact Martin
Crichlow, student success advisor, at the Galveston College Charlie Thomas Family
Applied Technology Center, at [email protected].