Alexia Vernon is the founder of Catalyst for Action, a coaching and training company that empowers individuals and businesses to design aggressive and achievable short and long term goals and corresponding, measurable objectives to close the gap from where they are to where they want to be as efficiently and creatively as possible.
As a coach and trainer, Alexia works with a variety of individual and group clients, such as solopreneurs and small business owners, nonprofit and corporate executives, artists and educators, sales and human resources managers, as well as recent graduates and professionals seeking a career transition. She has recently developed and led interactive coaching, training, and professional development programs for such organizations as CUNY/Creative Arts Team, the Partnership for After School Education (PASE), the New York State Theatre Education Association, the New York City and St. Thomas Student Shakespeare Festivals, the Sexual Assault and Violence Prevention Program at Mt. Sinai Hospital, Camp Broadway, Boys and Girls Clubs of Nevada, and the Nevada Business Women’s Resource and Assistance Center. She teaches Speech and Theatre at CUNY’s John Jay College and Interdisciplinary Studies and Women’s Studies at New Jersey City University.
Alexia Vernon is an accomplished theatre artist. She has toured her performance piece The Joy of Lex to a variety of local, national, and international college campuses, performance festivals, and theatre venues and is also a member of New York’s The Stolen Chair Theatre Company, nytheatre.com’s People of the Year 2005. Alexia has performed throughout the world from the Santa Monica Playhouse (Los Angeles) and Initiation International (Singapore) to such New York City performance venues as HERE Arts Center, Theater for the New City, Galapagos, CB’s Gallery, and Mo Pitkin’s House of Satisfaction. In addition, she has devised, written, and directed a variety of theatre productions with young people, community groups, and working actors.
Alexia has been featured in such publications as Nevada Woman, Las Vegas Review Journal, Backstage, and Grassroots: A Field Guide for Social Activism for her work in coaching, social entrepreneurship, youth and leadership development and theatre education. She was a winner of the prestigious Independent Means National Business Plan Competition for young women, which enabled her to launch her first business, the nonprofit Girls’ Activity and Leadership (GAL) Institute, as a college sophomore.
Alexia holds a BA in Women’s Studies and a minor in Theatre Arts from the University of Nevada Las Vegas and an MA in Gender Studies, Experimental Theatre, and Theatre for Social Change from New York University. She graduated from Coach U, the premier international coach-training program, and is an active member of the International Coach Federation.