Jewel Daniels Radford is president of Daniels Communications, a global leadership development firm with offices in Montego Bay, Jamaica and Atlanta, GA. The Brooklyn-born tenacious entrepreneur credits her Jamaican and Kittitian heritage for the drive that brought her back to the Caribbean to use her international experience to positively impact business in Jamaica. She is a passionate and engaging corporate trainer, speaker and entrepreneur who has built a global business with a client list that includes CitiTrends, CPJ, Couples Resorts, DIRTT Environmental Solutions, MBCC, MegaMart, Total, Vistaprint, the US Army, City of Savannah, International Greetings, Savannah State University, and Interfor Lumber.As a speaker, Jewel has taken her impactful messages to organizations like the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Annual Conference who lauded her as one of the “brightest thinkers on issues of urgent concern to the African American community”. She has also conducted keynote addresses and training sessions for:
C-E-O Conference ?Women's Leadership Exchange?HRMAJ - Montego Bay, Jamaica?St. Croix Women’s Business Center Women’s Conference?Blacks in Government ?BPIAJ?Martin Luther King Jr. Community Breakfast?Bronner Brothers Annual Conference?African American Women on Tour?GWEN Conference
She sharpened her career skills as a former journalist to write two books It Takes Tenacity, 15 Power Moves to Survive the Wilderness and Weather the Economic Storm and The Enterprising Entrepreneur. She is currently working on her third work due out in early 2018.
Jewel has been featured in various publications like Skirt magazine, Onyx Woman, The Savannah Morning News, The Savannah Herald, and London's The Post business newspaper and has received recognition as one of Georgia's "40 Under 40" in Business and Politics by Georgia Trend magazine and the Savannah Business Report & Journal, Entrepreneur of the Year as well as receiving recognition from former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes and Congressman Jack Kingston.
She holds a MS degree in Organizational Leadership from Capella University was the first African-American woman accepted to Seoul, Korea’s Yonsei University where she studied International Relations and Political Science. She is also a graduate of Hampton University as well as New York University's Public Relations Institute.
A believer in lifelong learning who has a penchant for the classroom, Jewel has served as an Adjunct Instructor at Savannah Technical College and Armstrong Atlantic State University and is a trained Stephen Minister. Committed to being actively involved in professional organizations, Jewel is the past president of American Society for Training and Development Savannah GIG, and holds memberships in the Human Resource Management Association of Jamaica, Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce, Savannah Chamber of Commerce, Blacks in Government (BIG) and is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.
She is a community service advocate having served on the boards of Communities in Schools, the MLK Foundation, and Quantum, Inc. She is passionate about her work, loves to read, travel and paint. Jewel enjoys mentoring young women and says her greatest gift is her daughter Jynnah, an anthropologist who seeks to influence global policy that grants greater access to social and economic services for disadvantaged populations.
