The Global Achievers Issue 1/2021 | Page 11

Randi D. Ward occupies chapter 5 of the coffee table book of The Global Achievers - Influential Entrepreneurs and their Journey.

Randi D. Ward is a retired American Language Arts teacher, an international best-seller author, a professional master editor, a certified Harmony Life Coach, Holistic Emotional Intelligence Coach, NLP Practitioner, and Communication Mastery Certified Coach. In June she will receive an Honorary Doctorate in Humanitarianism. In 2011--2012, she taught ESOL in Cairo, Egypt. She is the former owner of the language schools Rise Up and 6 October English Nursery in Egypt. As a serious African animal advocate, environmentalist, and educator, she is an honorary president of World Peace Forest (Africa), USA Regional Director for Africa Nomads Conservation, writer/Chief Editor for magazine Morocco Pens and e-magazine ChemoBuddies4Life, and a book consultant coach/editor. She is planning a show to host and interview talented international people. Ms Ward is a world traveller of 60 countries in four continents.

Ms Ward has received many

awards/honors: Besides her 2012 memoir Because I Believed in Me (My Egyptian Fantasy Came True), her short story “Isabella’s Undying Love” is in “A Cup of Love”. She won a 2018 Second Place for her poem “Chatting with Mr. Raindrop” and Honorable Mention for her story “Speedy the Truck”. “Keeping My Promise to Dream Bigger” is in the anthology “Quarentena and Beyond” published in December 2020. She writes poetry, children and adult stories, and novels. She has created 48 YouTube videos and over 140 blogs on her book website: www.randidward.com which includes three of her twenty-five national/international radio/video interviews plus her two Egyptian newspaper and two magazine articles.

She was married to her recently deceased husband Bill for 47 years and has one son Mark, the art director of Germany’s Readers Digest. She now shares her life with her Saint Bernard dog Savannah.