Okema is Founder and CEO of Okema Simpson Consulting, LLC. She's a native of Oxford, NC where she grew up knowing that she would one day become an educator. With 23 years of education, Okema has been able to impact hundreds of scholars and was able to extend the reach of her impact by serving as an Multi Classroom Leader (MCL) at Ranson Middle school where she led teams of teachers to positively impact the academic growth and achievement of scholars each year. Okema credits much of her success to the investments that she made in herself to engage in her own professional development. She vows to be the educator and leader that students and teachers deserve, therefore she commits to doing the work to achieve this. Okema started her business to inspire, empower, and encourage aspiring and current educators and leaders to take charge of their own professional development so that they can show up being the type of educator that they want to be and the type of educator that their scholars deserve.