Pivotal Impact

While working as a Learning and Development Professional, Candace Washington realized she wasn’t fully living out her dreams and career aspirations. Instead, she was settling. She was simply talking about what she wanted to be instead of taking action to become who she wanted to be.

Growing up in an underserved community on the west side of Chicago where education is often subpar and opportunity is bleak, Candace was the beneficiary of many personal and professional young adult development programs and organizations that had a pivotal impact in her life and altered her trajectory. As a result, from the age of 19, Candace’s passion has been to be a guide post and catalyst for the personal and professional development of young adults, just as others were for her. Candace passionately wanted to pay it forward in life, leadership and legacy through service to others. She wanted to serve the audience she cared about and related to the most and she wanted to do it in a bigger way. She wanted to reach far beyond what her daily 9 to 5 job provided.

In January 2016, Candace received a consulting request to develop several leadership development workshops for a large university program that targeted young adults. After delivering the first session, she felt alive and on fire and it was clear that they did as well. It was a very different feeling from what she received in her full-time role as a training professional. She felt like she wanted to bask in that moment forever. Following the project, other consulting opportunities came along, until finally Candace made the definitive decision to fully commit to creating the life she wanted … and Pivotal Impact (PI) was born

Candace launched PI eleven months ago and now has a team of three Learning and Development Consultants. PI is a personal leadership, professional growth, and talent development consulting company that empowers emerging leaders and young professionals with knowledge and skills to accelerate success and build legacy in work, life, and leadership.

Candace is the infectious, positive, can-do spirit behind PI. She loves to laugh and always has a big smile on her face. An avid bowler, book worm and leadership geek who enjoys family, traveling and meeting new people, Candace is focused on building lasting relationships and legacy in leadership and communication for herself and the audiences she serves. Words that inspire her? “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?” ~Rabbi Hillel