Linda Jiménez, Principal, is a specialist in focusing companies in start-up and existing operations via process mapping and program management. She is a detail-oriented taskmaster with good collaborative skills. Linda's industry experience has been focused in public health science, urban public healthcare, fitness, and non-profit businesses, but also includes automotive, logistics and supply chain. She is also a professor at Wayne State University, teaching fundraising and entrepreneurship.
Linda has founded three companies, so she understands and knows how to drive schedules to completion. She founded Detroit After-School All-Stars as the Detroit Chapter of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Youth Foundation. She also founded Get Active Detroit, a 501(c)(3) organization as the affiliate for the Governor's Council on Physical Fitness, Health and Sports and VIDA Enterprise, a public health science consulting company. Linda has also worked with StayWell Health Management Systems and Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems.
She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Science specializing in Sports Medicine and a Master of Education, Exercise Physiology, both from Wayne State University. She was appointed by the Governor of Michigan as a board member of the Governor's Council on Physical Fitness, Health and Sports, is Vice Chair of the Michigan Fitness Foundation, a Board Member of Alternative for Girls Detroit, and a Trustee of Henry Ford Health Systems. Linda is also fluent in Spanish.