Magical Child Foundation Board

From Left to right: Carol Powell, Dr. Sandra Williams, Nancy Titus-Piersma,
Dr. Karla Peterson, Beth Skye

From Left to Right: Carol Powell, Dr. Sandra Williams, Nancy Titus-Piersma,
Dr. Scout Cloud Lee, Dr. Karla Peterson, and Beth Skye

Board Bio's

Carol Powell

Ms. Powell brings a multi-discipline background to The Magical Child Foundation. She has a unique blend of Human Resources, Payroll and Information Technology management positions combined with over 10 years as a consultant.

Ms. Powell’s extensive experience includes all facets of project management and program management. Her experience spans a variety of industries; among them are utilities, telecom, leased employee, manufacturing and government. She has a proven ability to manage diverse, high-performing teams executing merger & acquisitions, corporate re-structuring, multi-product software implementation, new product development, new product roll-out and union negotiations.

Ms. Powell’s knowledge and experience spans all aspects of Product Management from product inception to retirement. Her specialty lies in IT products that support Human Resource and Payroll functions for both in-house and service bureau models. She has worked with several of the industry leading HR and Payroll management software products during her career.

Ms. Powell earned her B.S. degree in Business/Economics from Regis University.

Nancy Titus-Piersma

Nancy Titus-Piersma is adjunct instructor for Oklahoma State University, where she teaches Personal Finance, Principles of Corporate Finance and International Finance. She also serves as President of JDT and Associates, a consulting and fine arts company. Prior to starting this firm in 2004, Ms. Titus-Piersma served as Vice President, Global Trade and Treasury Services for Bank One (now J.P. Morgan Chase) for 14 years. In this capacity, she assisted multinational companies by expanding their import and export trading capabilities through a variety of banking services, including foreign currency loans, letters of credit, foreign exchange options and export working capital. Her clients ranged from a small import/export firm buying and selling to Africa, to a multinational raising money on the London stock exchange for Russian oil and gas ventures.

Prior to working with Bank One, Ms. Titus-Piersma obtained credit training with First Republic Bank in Dallas, Texas. As a credit analyst, she was responsible for a portfolio of loans including Mexican banks (Banespa, Banco Nacional and others). She also performed credit analysis on various Venezuelan state owned entities (PDVSA) and Korean multinationals (Goldstar).

Ms. Titus-Piersma graduated from Thunderbird -- The Garvin School of International Management in 1987, with a Master in International Management. She obtained her B.A. in Political Science, Magna cum Laude, from Hope College in 1982. She has studied French, is fluent in Spanish and has lived and traveled extensively abroad. She is married to Jack Titus, an Art Professor at Oklahoma State University and has two daughters.

Beth Skye

Beth Skye is a producer and promoter. She has been a longtime supporter of the mission of the Magical Child Foundation. In 1985 she joined MCF as President to help promote it's global initiative Project Sworn to F.U.N.
The purpose of Project Sworn to F.U.N. (Friends and Families Uniting Neighborhoods and Nations) is to bring people around the world together for a 24 hour event celebrating what we share in common.

During her tenure with MCF she produced a number of special events including KidStock, an annual international youth event, to promote greater cultural exchange and appreciation between young people and as mini proto-types of the larger global event concept.

She is the President of Living Well Presents and is a columnist writing articles on Living Well, both dedicated to opening doors for expanding consciousness, love and respect.

She has been active as an animal welfare advocate and has a private practice using bio-feedback for stress and pain relief for animals.

She is passionate about facilitating alliances between individuals and/or organizations for the greater good.

Dr. Karla Peterson

Dr. Karla Peterson, is currently Chair of Business Administration and Director of Entrepreneurship in the School of Business at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma. Dr. Peterson’s areas of expertise include culture development, human resource planning and motivating, strategic planning, and entrepreneurship. Dr. Peterson’s work experience includes over twenty-five years of teaching, banking, institutional research, and strategic planning. Her consulting experience is in the areas of leadership development, employee relations, strategic planning and corporate coaching. Dr. Peterson graduated from Moorhead State University with a BS in Accounting, Central Michigan University with an MS in Business Administration, and a Ph.D. from Capella University in Organization and Management with a specialization in Leadership.

Dr. Peterson achieved Summa Cum Laude status at both her master’s coursework and her doctoral coursework. Dr. Peterson’s dissertation explored the relational benefits provided by angel investors to their funded entrepreneurs. A paper based on her doctoral research was accepted and presented at the highly prestigious Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference in Madrid, Spain. Dr. Peterson is currently completing an additional graduate degree, a master’s in accounting. Dr. Peterson is a Fellow of Babson College; she has also attended University of Oklahoma, University of Wisconsin, and completed numerous courses and workshops throughout her professional career.

Dr. Peterson is fun, funny, focused, and future paced toward achieving high quality results. She has the unique ability to listen, observe, and then ask questions that are provocative, probing and penetrating. She avoids giving a billion answers, because answers change. Instead she harvests “forever questions” because questions are the diamonds we hold to the light. Dr. Peterson understands that a question steers us into our own answer. She also understands and practices “shared leadership” and is a model Team Player. Best of all, Dr. Peterson is creative, compassionate, and outrageously devoted to excellence, animals, the environment, and family.

Dr. Sandra Williams

Dr. Sandra (pronounced Sondra) Williams stands with one foot in art and the other in ag. A teacher, a national and international award-winning writer, and a theatre artist since the age of 5, she is now known on the Internet as the Mushroom Lady. Sandra and her husband Douglass started growing shiitakes at Lost Creek Mushroom Farm in 1986. They make and market grow-your-own shiitake mushroom log kits and Redbud Gourmet Shiitake Soup and Dip Mixes (www.shiitakemushroomlog.com). In 2007 Sandra and Doug volunteered as mushroom consultants for the Farmer-to-Farmer Program, serving in Ghana, West Africa. In 2008, Sandra started Mushrooms in Ghana Project, partnered by The Magical Child Foundation, to help introduce shiitake mushroom log production to Ghanaian mushroom farmers and protein-rich shiitakes to the protein-hungry Ghanaian diet (www.mushroomsinghana.org).