Kia Edwards is an HR + education practitioner (early learners through adult learning) who founded Champion Instructors – Education & Training Consulting in response to the need for virtual learning during the pandemic. After watching her son’s speech therapist and teachers struggle to onboard their special needs class into virtual learning and also experience the inability to train her new hires as an H.R. Staff Development Specialist during the pandemic – Kia knew she had a calling to develop an instructional design business!
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Kia loves taking training from information to retained knowledge, which improves workplace productivity, lessens workplace accidents, improves succession, and limits staff turnover. Taking her professional passions mixed with the year 2020’s high demand for businesses to provide remote training during a global pandemic – her virtual instructional design business was born. Champion Instructors Education and Training is a consulting LLC that solves diverse educational and training needs virtually or in person. With a recent national demand for remote learning (socially distanced), her staff of experienced online learning educators and seasoned human resources professionals are most valued for offering condensed yet effective training services that fit a range of learning needs and styles offered on diverse devices.
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About Kia Edwards
Q: Please tell us a little bit about your family.
My husband and I are both native San Diegans. While we joke as being a house divided because we favor our respective HBCUs – it is our story of black college support that brought us together during the summer at an HBCU networking event Kia planned in the summer of 1999 in San Diego.
Q: Please tell us about your current, past, or future career. What do you love most about what you do?
I have over five years of K-16 experience, which expanded into staff training and development, where I’ve managed healthcare instructional design for organizations like Scripps Health, UCSD, and Rady Children’s. I see my future career as a full-time CEO of my Champion Instructors Education & Training. I love the fact that I get to contribute to job satisfaction, customer satisfaction, succession planning, career development, and employers’ productivity.
Q: What advice would you give to people?
I think it’s always important to reach back as you climb!
Q: Where do you see yourself in 5 to 10 years?
Full-time CEO of Champion Instructors Education & Training
Kia Edwards & Our Community
Q: What are a few of your favorite restaurants in our community?
Louisiana Purchase, Felix BBQ, and Surf and Soul
Q: How long have you lived or worked in our community?
15yrs
Q: Who is the most interesting person you’ve met here in our community?
My husband
Q: What is your favorite thing or something unique about our community?
Our Black community is interconnected, so we’re small enough to know one another but large enough to spread the wealth.
Q: If you could choose anyone alive today and not a relative, with whom would you love to have lunch? Why? And where locally would you meet for this lunch?
Barack Obama – to understand how to maintain temperament while facing adversity.
For Fun
Q: What is one of your favorite movies? TV shows?
Anything about love.
Q: (Even for friends or family), what is something interesting that most people don’t know about you?
I officiated a wedding for a couple I introduced.
Q: What would you rate a 10 out of 10?
San Diego’s Mexican Food
Q: Who inspires you to be better?
My two sons.
Q: What community organizations and/or local nonprofits do you admire/support?
I support Delta Sigma Theta, Sorority Inc., and Jack and Jill of America.
Q: What is the best advice you’ve ever received?
To whom much is given, much will be required (Luke 12:48)
Q: What Neighborhood do you live in?
Rancho Bernardo
What I love about my Neighborhood:
The school district supports special education at an early age with immediate intervention.
Please describe your ideal San Diego weekend:
Family time at the beach!
Q: Finally, what three words or phrases come to mind when you think of the word HOME?
Love, laughter, and honesty.
