I'm Nita Penn — a global business strategist, workshop facilitator, and venture development architect building at the intersection of operations, creativity, strategy, and intentional life design.

As a former Women's Business Center Director, U.S. Army veteran, and founder of NAY Consulting Group, LLC, I've built my career supporting founders, women entrepreneurs, and creative professionals across nonprofit, small business development, academia, and global operations — helping leaders bring clarity to complex ideas and turn vision into executable strategy. My formal training spans an MBA in International Business and a Graduate Certificate in Disruptive Entrepreneurship & Innovation from Georgia State University's J. Mack Robinson College of Business, a Professional Certificate in UX Design & Research from General Assembly, and continuing education in Human Resources Management from Emory University — a multidisciplinary foundation that informs everything I build and teach.

Through immersive workshops, research-driven facilitation, and a structured four-phase methodology — Ideation, Research, Planning, and Strategy — I support globally-minded founders and professionals move from uncertainty to unshakeable clarity, solid structure, and intentional growth. My work is informed by graduate research in financial analysis, global operations management, global strategy, innovation ecosystems, funder pipelines, and founder behavior, and a military career in Human Intelligence Collection, Warrant Officer Recruitment & Retention, Human Resources Management, and Korean linguistics — alongside a life intentionally built around cultural fluency, global mobility, and creative production, including raising fraternatl twin daughters in a multilingual, multicultural household.

In addition to my advisory and facilitation work, I am building Obsidian Global — A Global Operations Research Group — applying the same venture development process I teach to demonstrate that these tools work across industries, identities, and stages of growth.

This Summer Series is an extension of all of it — a space designed for entrepreneurs, founders, creatives, and intentional professionals who are ready to think, build, and create with purpose.

If you're here, you're already on the right path.