Ida Byrd-Hill – Financial Advisor & Financial Literacy Advocate
Bio
Ida Byrd-Hill’s mission, to improve people’s lives financially, is weaved throughout her entire life:
As a financial advisor, where she grew a firm from 0 to $353 million in managed assets for 2,200 individual clients and 10 corporate clients.
As a Mortgage Loan Officer acquiring $1,000,000 in loan volume comprised of loans averaging $50,000.
As an Executive Search Consultant, a.k.a. “Headhunter” where she placed 72 attorneys.
As a Human Resources professional managing recruitment and employee benefits.
Today, she is an urban economist and Ideapreneur seeking to spur the largest matriculation of women and urban residents, both parents and students, into wealth.
Essence Magazine in its May 2010 article, Helping Our Children Achieve Excellence, states “Byrd-Hill is the very personification of Detroit’s refusal to surrender.” She keeps implementing ideas to reinvent urban cities into incubators of economic prosperity and excellence.
She is the inventor of Fluke – the wealth building game of accidental inventions, radical transformer of five urban public schools, the creator of the first cyber blended alternative high school catering to adjudicated youth in America – Hustle & TECHknow Preparatory High School and President of Uplift, Inc. 501 (c) 3 Idea Incubator.
Ida has presented at:
iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning)
ISTE (International Society of Technology in Education)
National Charter School Conference
Inner City Economic Summit 2013
New York State STEM Conference 2014
National Alternative School Conference 2014
NABSE (National Association of Black School Educators) Annual Conference 2014
Techweek Detroit 2015
MEATA (Michigan Educators Apprenticeship and Training Association) Spring Conference 2015.
She earned a MBA Jack Welch Management Institute 2014 and a Bachelor’s of Arts Economics 1989 University of Michigan – Ann Arbor.
Series 6, Series 7, Series 63, Series 65 FINRA, formerly National Association of Security Dealers Former Michigan State Health and Life Insurance license.