
Dr Thecla Fitz Lewis served as the Caribbean Regional Business Development Consultant for Laureate International Universities (LIU). She was instrumental in ensuring that LIU’s high quality undergraduate, graduate and specialized degree programs offered to the Caribbean region, included modular content that served the training needs of Public and Private sector organizations.
Thecla held several Executive roles regionally and internationally, and lectured in, among other subjects, Human Resource Management, Supervisory Skills, Corporate Strategies, Sales and Marketing, Leadership Development, Tourism and Hospitality. She assisted several organizations with business strategies in developing skill sets, cost-cutting measures, improved business performance and safety procedures in the use of cleaning solutions and cleaning protocols.
Thecla serves on several boards of governance in the Caribbean region and the USA, and uses her strong communication and interpersonal skills, decision-making, strategic thinking and leadership competencies to advocate for small business enterprises, young entrepreneurs and disenfranchised youth. She has developed and led several on-the-job training initiatives for secondary school drop-outs and skills development training for single mothers, unskilled and unemployed persons in rural communities, and business consultancy services to start-up businesses through CDB, OAS, CIDA and EU grant funded projects. She hosted a monthly television program in Dominica focusing on the direct benefits of online education to human capital development, for the learner, the organization and the community. She also holds professional membership with several International Women Organizations.
Thecla holds formal qualifications in Corporate Strategies, Strategic Human Resource Management, International Business, Tourism, Hotel and Restaurant Technology, Dressmaking and Fashion Designs. She is a Certified Hospitality Department Trainer, and an Industry Certified Expert in Cleaning Industry Management Standards. She completed an MBA in International Organization Behavior and International Marketing and a DBA in Leadership and Organizational Psychology. She is a member of the Society of Human Resource Management and Fellow Member of International Leadership Management.