"SHE STEPS FORWARD MINISTRIES" - Reaching Hampton Roads Virginia to Africa and Back! Meet Founder Elaine Lankford

Elaine Lankford is the founder of She Steps Forward Ministries, which was originally established as Transforming Love Ministries in 2016. SSF focuses on empowering everyday women to chase God-size dreams. By using her gifting of speaking, writing, and leadership coaching, Elaine hopes to raise up the next generation of women in ministry to be passionate mentors to women everywhere. 

As a certified John Maxwell Team member, Elaine offers her coaching services to female entrepreneurs who desire a faith-based approach to building their business, ministry, or nonprofit.Elaine is also the founder and executive director of She Steps Forward International, a nonprofit working to equip both American and African women to lead businesses, ministries, and nonprofits. SSFI is also giving back by doing humanitarian work in Nairobi, Kenya.Leadership development has been woven throughout Elaine’s personal and professional life. Prior to working directly in ministry as well as leadership/business coaching, Elaine has held many leadership roles both within the church and in her professional life.Within the local church environment, she has been a small group leader for over ten years, co-organized and co-lead the church’s Nicaragua missions team, and has been heavily involved within the prayer team.Prior to branching off into leadership coaching professionally, Elaine filled many leadership roles within her sixteen-year nursing career. Within nursing, Elaine was a top performer for seven years on the oncology unit of Obici Hospital. She then led a hospital wide quality assurance team in the area of pain management for over a year before becoming the Pain Management Coordinator for five years. Elaine has also worked as a nurse practitioner in the area of pain management before transitioning out of the clinical arena.Once she transitioned from clinical practice, she served in an advisory role in the area of medical record documentation, coding, and auditing as a nurse liaison for a multi-specialty clinic, educating providers on the importance of complete clinical documentation as well as correct billing practices. She was later hired as a quality assurance manager for one of the nation’s leading health information management companies, overseeing course development related to clinical documentation and coding education. Today, she continues to work as a part time consultant in the area of provider privileging.She self-published her first book, Love Echoed Back, in August 2014 and she has a second book planned. She has had several leadership articles published in the Suffolk News Herald as well as a couple of articles published in Inside Business.Elaine is a Hampton Roads native. She has been married to her husband, Darrell, for over 28 years. They have one son, Nicholas, and one fur baby, a beagle named Apollo. 

For more information on The SHE STEPS FORWARD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE coming MARCH 26, 2022.  Email Elaine at: [email protected]
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