About LaShay

Passionate about Family, Community and Relationships

LaShay Canady

I utilize relationship building skills through technical assistance calls, site visits and in-person meetings tremendously well. I implement my relater strength with local communities I works with, including key partners and stakeholders.  I strengthen relationships with internal and external partners, including with the evaluation team.

I am incredibly accountable and deliver high quality customer service utilizing my executing strength.  I display honesty and integrity and gets the job done in a way that improves the overall operation of a community-wide program and/or strategy. In addition, I have tremendous professional pride and passion for my work.

I aim to continuously increase my communication skills with key partners by being concise, consistent and focused in my communication style. I employ a health equity lens to my work and respectfully, value opinions and ideas from persons of different backgrounds and cultures and incorporates these ideas into my technical assistance and customer service.

I was a statewide Leadership Development Coordinator/ Community Support Liaison for 6 years and currently a Communities That Care Coach.

Strengths:

Creativity: I contribute new and unique ideas and solutions to the process for which I am responsible. I easily make connections among previously unrelated notions in service of achieving greater efficiencies or activity effectiveness.

Priority setting: I effectively spend my time on what is important to the accomplishment of strategic goals; I eliminate roadblocks and zero in on the most critical and effective work.

Problem solving: I am an effective problem solver. I use rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions. I bring solutions to the table when identifying and analyzing problems!

Strategic agility: I can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately. I am future-oriented and can articulate credible and strategic possibilities and likelihoods.

Negotiation: I am a skilled negotiator with internal and external stakeholders. I can be direct, yet diplomatic and am able to gain concessions without damaging relationships.

 

“LaShay provides technical assistance and consultation in collaborative relationship building, from an expertise family perspective, working with community-based, family-centered and diverse partners and stakeholders to build primary prevention systems within local communities.”

My Skills

    • I build the capacity of others to interact within civic society with purpose and positive outcomes for children
    • Show how well-coordinated community-based organizations and agencies are potential key vehicles for civic participation
    • Coach families and communities on building capacity for problem solving and on how to create opportunities for family engagement
    • Coach communities in family mobilization and coalition building to develop intentional leadership
    • Coach communities and family leaders to figure out how all the pieces and resources can be arranged for maximum productivity

 

  • Family Leadership Coaching
  • Civic Engagement
  • Cultivating Change
  • Relationship Building

Identifying key issues community, family and public health

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