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Ask JBH #28: Shay Gillespie
As the Founder and CEO of Color Coded Kids (CCK), a computer programming firm geared towards kids, Shay is responsible for overall strategy and expansion of CCK’s current national footprint. In addition, Shay also founded Color Coded Kids Foundation (CCK Foundation), a 501c3 aimed to provide financial assistance for CCK’s courses. In the past 3 years, CCK Foundation has awarded more than $40,000 in scholarships and workshops to students in underserved communities.
And finally, Shay also founded Color Coded Kids Money, a financial literacy organization, with a mission to teach junior high and high school students money management and wealth-building. If that’s not enough, Shay works full-time as central division business development manager for World Wide Technology, covering Fortune 500 corporations in 19 states. Shay is responsible for supporting more than 70 sales reps with their diversity strategy within their client organizations.
Shay sits on several boards, Mid-States Minority Supplier Development Council and Color Coded Kids Foundation (board chair). She recently stepped down as a board member of the Down Syndrome Association of Greater St. Louis, aimed to provide programs and funding for families with Down syndrome family members, including advocating for her own son, Diggy, who was born with Down syndrome in 2008. Shay has been featured on the cover of Delux Magazine as one of 50 most intriguing women in the St. Louis area and The Spot magazine, a magazine focused on sharing inspiring stories of women.
Other awards include, Black Tie Community Award, Phenomenal Woman Award, St. Louis American’s Salute to Young Leaders Award, Delux Magazine’s Power 100. She is also an active member of her sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated and served as a chair for more than six years. Shay is also a graduate of several leadership programs including, St. Louis Business Diversity Initiative Fellows program and Focus St. Louis CORO Women in Leadership, Focus St. Louis Diversity Leadership Program and a member of Professional Organization of Women, Regional Business Council and United Way’s Young Leadership Society.
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As the Founder and CEO of Color Coded Kids (CCK), a computer programming firm geared towards kids, Shay is responsible for overall strategy and expansion of CCK’s current national footprint. In addition, Shay also founded Color Coded Kids Foundation (CCK Foundation), a 501c3 aimed to provide financial assistance for CCK’s courses. In the past 3 years, CCK Foundation has awarded more than $40,000 in scholarships and workshops to students in underserved communities.
And finally, Shay also founded Color Coded Kids Money, a financial literacy organization, with a mission to teach junior high and high school students money management and wealth-building. If that’s not enough, Shay works full-time as central division business development manager for World Wide Technology, covering Fortune 500 corporations in 19 states. Shay is responsible for supporting more than 70 sales reps with their diversity strategy within their client organizations.
Shay sits on several boards, Mid-States Minority Supplier Development Council and Color Coded Kids Foundation (board chair). She recently stepped down as a board member of the Down Syndrome Association of Greater St. Louis, aimed to provide programs and funding for families with Down syndrome family members, including advocating for her own son, Diggy, who was born with Down syndrome in 2008. Shay has been featured on the cover of Delux Magazine as one of 50 most intriguing women in the St. Louis area and The Spot magazine, a magazine focused on sharing inspiring stories of women.
Other awards include, Black Tie Community Award, Phenomenal Woman Award, St. Louis American’s Salute to Young Leaders Award, Delux Magazine’s Power 100. She is also an active member of her sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated and served as a chair for more than six years. Shay is also a graduate of several leadership programs including, St. Louis Business Diversity Initiative Fellows program and Focus St. Louis CORO Women in Leadership, Focus St. Louis Diversity Leadership Program and a member of Professional Organization of Women, Regional Business Council and United Way’s Young Leadership Society.