CAREER OVERVIEW
Eboni Camille Chillis, PhD a native of Buffalo, New York entered into her teaching career as an Audio/Video and Film instructor after working over fifteen years in television production and news. From the 1996 Olympics, Super Bowl XXXIV, Award and Comedy Shows, Music Videos, Artist Ne-Yo: Compound Organization, Bronner Brothers, Home Depot TV, Taking Authority Network, CBS to Tyler Perry Productions, her experiences in Mass Media have been vast. She has been recognized for her work in television winning an Emmy in 2003 from CBS-46 News and in education at the State and National level for truly contributing to Career and Technical Education (CTE). Eboni Camille was the Region II Representative for the Association for Career & Technical Education (ACTE) Administrative Division: Policy Committee and is an active Educators in Action blogger for the ACTE online publication. Her articles have been featured in STEM Brief and The National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER). She is a Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher who traveled throughout Japan to study the educational system, culture, economics, and sustainability. She formerly served on the Executive Board for the Georgia Association of Career and Technical Education (GACTE) as Treasurer for three years. Colleagues across Georgia elected her as the Administrator of the Year from the Georgia Council for Career & Technical Administrators and President for the Council of Career and Technical Administrators for the state of Georgia (GCCTA).
Dr. Chillis has presented at national and state conferences with an emphasis on CTE and workforce development through an interactive presentation entitled “Fishing for Strong Partnerships in the Sea of Unlimited Opportunities: Today, Tomorrow & Beyond...”. She served on Governor's Advisory Committees, The Atlanta Regional Workforce (ARC), a Charter School Board, Aerotropolis Atlanta’s Educational Collective Group, North Carolina's Guilford Jobs 2030 Committee, Community of Practice Partner through Fannie Mae's Sustainable Communities Challenge, and has contributed to the Center for Global Education - Asia Society, CTE Professional Development. Her company, The Chillis Group, LLC focuses on Simple.Creative.Solutions to school improvement and innovative challenge projects for business and industry. She is most noted for an Augmented Reality School Bus Inspection APP challenge project in collaboration with business/industry and high school students in Clayton County, Georgia, Safer Together Green Housing Initiative in Guilford County, North Carolina, and the disruption of school design and renovation of four Signature Career Academies in Guilford County. Her current work in progress is an examination of future school designs with neuroarchitecture in mind. Dr. Chillis currently serves as the Chief Innovation Officer for Guilford County Schools, and is an active community volunteer and advocate for civic and social causes.
Dr. Chillis has studied at Morris Brown College, Cambridge College, Georgia State University, University of West Georgia, Capella University, and particpated in leadership training at Harvard University.
You don't build a business; you build relationships. Unless you are a one-person shop, you will be working with others. Those relationships form the core of your enterprise, and for them to be successful you need to be prepared to coach, guide, encourage, and reward those who are working with you--not just in their work but in their own growth and development.
Explore the unknown...you can do it alone but "why" when you have supporters that have gone before you and those that will come after you. Embrace the journey.
If you are your authentic self, you have no competition. If you are to be truly successful, your leadership must be grounded in self-awareness and authenticity. That means knowing and working with your strengths and your limits. When you lead from authenticity, you free yourself from the need for external approval--you can be who you are, not what others want to see.
Greatness is not where you stand, but in what direction you are moving. Strategic planning--the process of translating vision into realistic strategies--provides you with a structure to balance long-term goals with immediate needs, update plans to reflect changing circumstances, and develop contingency plans for the wider range of possibilities. Your strategic plan is worthless unless you have a strategic vision. The two go hand in hand: Each is useless without the other.
If you focus on results, you will never change; if you focus on change, you will get results. From the very beginning, organizations need the capacity to grow and adapt. A positive view of change and the flexibility to adapt gives you the ability to weather what comes--and maybe even to influence it. As we know, change is inevitable, but turning it into progress requires preparation.
Commitment is what transforms words into reality. Your commitment to the purpose of your enterprise, as you express it and transmit it to those around you, is what leads to the creation of something new, something of value, in the world. It's not an easy goal, but it's definitely one worth working toward.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. | Capella University, 2015 | Instructional Design for Online Learners
- Certificate | Harvard Urban Leader Institute, 2015 | Educational Leadership
- Ed.S | University of West Georgia 2013 | Educational Leadership
- M.Ed. | Cambridge College, 2006 | Education K-12
- B.A. | Morris Brown College, 1997 | Mass Communications
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- Former President – Georgia Council of Career & Technical Administrators (GCCTA)
- CompTIA - CTE Advocacy Committee Chairwoman
- American Association of School Administrators (AASA)
- Cognia STEM Accreditation Reviewer
- AASA Urban Superintendent Academy (Cohort IV)
- Association of Career and Technical Education Research (ACTER)
- National Professional Women’s Association (NAPW)
- Georgia Association for Career & Technical Education (GACTE)
- Association for Career & Technical Education (ACTE)
- National Association of Broadcast Journalist
- CTAE Leadership Academy, Georgia Department of Education
Chillis Truth: Critical thinking is my truth, it’s developed and practiced daily to be wise in well doing.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Hands-On-Atlanta, Volunteer | Atlanta Day Shelter, Volunteer | Safe America, Board Member | Habitat for Humanity, Volunteer | Ronald McDonald House, Volunteer | United Way Clayton, Former Board Member | Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Member | Midtown Neighbors Association, Former Board Member & Community Engagement Chair | The Neighbor Next Door Foundation, Inc., Chief Executive Officer | SLAM Academy of Atlanta, Former Vice-Chair
Chillis Truths: Honest, organic, and purposeful partnerships have been my leveraging wand for growth and productivity.
Leadership is a privilege not a right and I must earn it in the arena of action.
Published Article: Making STEM appeal to Girls
Destiny will favor me if I am prepared in mind, body, and spirit.
STEM simply proposes for every core interaction should be connected to a real-world possibility, with real solutions and real-world situations for students to critically think, collaborate, communicate and be creative. These are life skills and vital for students to be college, career, workforce and life ready!
Integrity is the bedrock of effective leadership. Only you can lose your integrity.
Chillis Truth: Let your truth be your power.
Leveraging partnerships has been my wand for growth and authentic relationships from Spinteractive, Delta, COI Ladder Institute, EDSpaces, Microsoft, TCJ AeroTech, Gulfstream, Own the Room, Center for Innovation, Verizon, SmallLabs, and Georgia Power to Georgia Tech...we have all uniquely contributed to projects bigger than ourselves.