Laila St. Matthew-Daniel is an internationally recognized Personal Growth & Transformational Expert, Author, Writer, TEDx Speaker, Key Note Speaker, Emotions Coach and Leadership Trainer with a passion to help connect people to their purpose. Over the years she has gradually carved a niche for herself in the areas of quality performance both at work and at home. She has earned a reputation for being a transformational change agent and a voice for the voiceless. She uses her background in administration, psychology, NLP and coaching, to empower individuals to transform their personal and professional lives. She also uses her deep spiritual understanding to enhance life-transforming solutions to enable inner healing and personal realignment. Her easy and fluid style of interactive teachings and coaching enables her to connect with people on a deeper level to enable self-actualization. Amidst working in her field of expertise, she finds the time to be a Social Affairs Commentator, and Social Activist in Gender issues. Her ‘no-nonsense’ in-depth hands-on experiential knowledge in SME/Entrepreneurship areas (she gives various webinars and workshops for free), and women and girl-child issues, makes her a desired guest on popular TV and radio programs. She has written books on: entrepreneurship, personal development and spiritual empowerment and writes for Business and Personal Development magazines. She seats on the board of various organizations some of which are Jacinta's Ltd, a Lifestyle Purveyor, and FK Management, where she brings her experience and expertise to bear in operational strategy. Her passion to give back to society led to her founding ACTS Generation – a Gender based NGO geared towards the Empowerment of Women and girls, and Advocacy in the area of domestic violence and abuse. Her mission, aside from fighting for the rights of women to be respected and given equal opportunities, is to raise women entrepreneurs who can add their quota to the growth and development of the society by being self-sufficient.