Girl Smarts Instilling Confidence in Our Young Women with Army Veteran Dianna Flett

100: Girl Smarts.  Instilling confidence in our young women is one of the most dramatic ways we can make a positive impact on the next generation.  Army Veteran Dianna Flett created Girl Smarts after hearing from her sons about the challenges young teenage girls are facing in the middle school.

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Girl Smarts is a series of workshops designed to give our young girls motivation and skills to move forward with confidence and strength in the years ahead.

The Girl Smarts approach combines straight talk and fun activities to bring home the reality of being in control and staying in control as our youth face the challenges of today’s world.

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Our workshops focus on the types of issues our young ladies are facing RIGHT NOW in their lives. We look at topics like body image, bullying, relationships, self image, leadership goal setting and more; our seminar leaders work with your girls to help them understand things of importance they face today and will certainly face tomorrow. Please explore our pages and learn what our program is all about!

Dianna Flett is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel having served for 21 years in various positions of increasing responsibility as a military intelligence officer. The majority of her time in the Army was spent in the tactical arena. She has lived all over the world and travelled extensively in the Middle East. Dianna is a combat veteran of Desert Shield/Desert Storm receiving several awards during her service including the Bronze Star for her work with deployed units in the desert in the 90’s. After the birth of her fourth son, Dianna decided to leave active duty service after 21 years, and focus her energies on her family as her children’s PTO President. She then worked with the FBI as the team leader of a group of professionals teaching leadership and management strategies to supervisory intelligence analysts as part of a training team based in Quantico. In 2009 she and an elementary school counselor started a program to support the strengthening and motivation of 4th an 5th grade girls prior to the start of their middle school years. The program, Girl Smarts is designed to elevate, motivate and strengthen the girls sense of self. The program has grown from it’s original 24 girls in one public school and is now in several counties in Virginia reaching hundreds of girls each school year. Dianna’s goal is to get every school girl the skills Girl Smarts offers making them everyday leaders in today’s world.

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