Valda Ford
Ford helps people successfully communicate and balance their personal and professional lives; she also teaches strategies on diversity, and more.
High Point, North Carolina, United States • Valda@ValdaFord.com
Valda Ford is an expert of women’s sexual and reproductive health and health equity. She is from High Point, North Carolina. Her subject area expertise includes:
- Women’s health—sexual and reproductive
- Decreasing infant mortality and maternal mortality
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion—especially relating to health equity
- Perfecting speaking skills (coaching)
Ford delivers keynotes and workshops to groups focusing on women’s health and equity. Those include agencies like the American Heart Association, Healthy Start, and the United Way. She works with large audiences and with executives in small groups.
She has 25+ years of professional speaking experience, which has allowed her to work in over 60 countries on six continents. Her ability as a mediator and her expertise in cultural diversity helped her develop sustainable programs in refugee camps in Ghana, with tribal chiefs in Sierra Leone, recruiting Afghani teachers and more. Ford maintains her license as a registered nurse and is an entrepreneur, having opened four successful businesses in the United States and Caribbean. She has provided numerous programs on diversity and inclusion to organizations around the globe.
An Accredited Speaker since 2018, Ford has graduate degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Creighton University. She holds an undergraduate degree from Winston-Salem State University.
On top of being an Accredited Speaker, Ford is a Distinguished Toastmaster, the highest level of educational achievement in Toastmasters. Ford was recently honored by the Black National Speakers Association with the Thelma G. Wells Trailblazer Award. She served on the Board of Directors for the National Speakers Association, serves as the chair of the Education Committee for the Black National Speakers Association and is a past president of NSA Carolinas. The Triad Business Journal named her one of the outstanding women in business in 2016 and Unite for Sight honored her with the philanthropist of the year in 2006 and volunteer of the year in 2005. She has received numerous local, national and international awards for her work with vulnerable populations.
For more information, please visit her website.