Bill’s unique blend of professional experiences such as advising large scale workforce development solutions, governmental affairs, education and nonprofits is the driving force behind his love of identifying and developing programs for the next generation workforce. In 2018, Bill launched an educational technology company (ScholarPath) which is transforming how high school students find employment, identify and fund college and join the military. As the principal designer of ScholarPath he served as the CEO and Chairman for the first three years. Bill’s current role as Executive Director of Access Point Program he advises Daugherty Business Solution on all educational initiatives and oversees all fundraising efforts and manages relationships with non-profits, city, county and state officials while lobbying for state and federal grants.
As a teenager Bill became homeless as a child of an ex-offender. Understanding the challenges his mother faced post release he realized that there needed to be a solution for all justice involved individuals. As a homeless teenager Bill learned fast about the challenges his mother faced finding a job and having the resources to keep her from breaking the cycle. After the launch of ScholarPath, Bill decided to use his experience in launching a ground breaking workforce development technology that would solve the challenges many families face due to incarceration. In 2020, Bill was asked to join the steering committee for the HomeGown StL project that studies the 60,000 young black boys across St. Louis hoped to identify ways to reduce recidivism and have taken a data centric approach to improve the lives of young black boys. This research based initiative focuses on the 7 pillars of comprehensive and personalized care. Working with the HomeGrown StL project he realized that the 7 pillars of care are not mutually exclusive to just young black boys but also could impact how to approach reentry and the stability for justice involved individuals.
In his different roles, Bill has strategically focused on corporate partnerships between educational institutions and many business sectors. As an educator, Bill has prided himself on strengthening community partnerships between the chamber of commerce and other non-profit agencies. This has helped foster fundraising opportunities, built strong internship opportunities, and created a number of scholarship models within local universities. While working in educational leadership, he has focused on his institutions’ 12th grade transition process to employment.