Envision Lead Grow

Envision Lead Grow (ELG) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded by Dr. Angela D. Reddix, a passionate mentor and advisor to the next generation of young girls and women and a leading advocate for entrepreneurship as a way of creating positive transformation in the world. Dr. Reddix also serves as President & CEO of ARDX, an award-winning healthcare management and IT consulting firm dedicated to improving the lives of our nation’s most vulnerable populations. 

ELG’s vision is to transform communities of poverty into communities of prosperity through the promise of middle school girls. ELG’s signature program introduces entrepreneurship to girls through sleepaway camps, year-round mentoring, monthly webinars, and end of-the-year conferences. Through this repeated exposure and practice, girls develop entrepreneurial, STEM-infused skills that allow them to contribute to and stimulate local economies. Girls learn self-efficacy, self-control, conscientiousness, delayed gratification, and personal leadership. ELG’s curriculum is derived from Dr. Reddix’s “8 Seeds to Success in Business,” the blueprint she used to grow her firm into and award-winning organization in under a decade. 

Dr. Angela D. Reddix developed the ELG program premised on evidence-based models and theories, such as Baron and Henry (2010).  Baron and Henry's (2010) deliberate practice model proves that participation in deliberate practice increases domain expertise and enhances cognitive skills, which are vital to success of new business ventures. As such, ELG's deliberate practice model teaches young girls in need of intervention self-efficacy, self-control, conscientiousness, delayed gratification to then in turn utilize their cognitive resources to not only enhance their performance and success rate in their own lives but also community members via economic stimulation through businesses. ELG provides an intervention to inspire impressionable teenage girls to focus their attention on becoming successful entrepreneurs, which may decrease teen pregnancy, increase the number of high school graduates (thus decreasing number of drop outs), and increase the number of new ventures in a community, opposed to the traditional, gender normative of females acting as caregivers and stay-at-home mothers, while increasing employment rates and decreasing crime rates. All Programming is at no cost to girls or their families.

Our stats show that for girls who participated in our program 89% reported that ELG helped them feel more confident, 95% reported experiencing personal growth during the ELG program, 85% reported that ELG helped them feel more comfortable with public speaking, 100% reported planning to complete both high school and college.

 However, due to the COVID 19 pandemic, ELG’s signature program was disrupted. Due to worsening conditions, such as school and university delays/cancellations, mandatory quarantines, economic hardship, etc., ELG has developed ELG 2.0 Virtual Immersion, a contingency program to be delivered and completed virtually for deserving girls. Virtual learning days will feature motivational presentations from female business executives; success stories involving local Girl Bosses; self-discovery; lessons in creativity and entrepreneurship; applied learning in STEM; and business pitches.

Your support is vital.  Will you join us in this transformative work by making a donation today? 

Together we can make a meaningful difference in the lives of thousands of girls.