The Grow With Guidance Team

Tommie R. Radd, Ph.D.

Tommie Radd, Ph.D.,

Founder and Developer of the Grow With Guidance System, is available for consultation and presentations as time permits. In addition, she heads up the financial area of the company.

Janet Fidler, MS LHP

Janet Fidler, MS, LMHP,

joins our team as a Developmental Guidance Specialist. She is a former Director of Guidance at Westside Schools in Omaha, NE. She has served as the president of the Nebraska School Counselor Association and cochaired the state committee responsible for writing the Nebraska Guidance Model. She worked with Dr. Radd doing research and teaching counselors how to create more effective guidance programs. She has lots of hands-on experience with the Grow With Guidance System in the classroom and is available for consultations, presentations, and/or training your staff.

Lisa Martens-Flood

Lisa Martens-Flood

manages our product inventory and facilitates your orders for Grow With Guidance materials, as well as handles general office duties and updating this web site.

George Lesser

George Lesser

is our Specialist who manages all computer scoring and report services for Grow With Guidance. You can learn more about George via Linked In. Linked In

Linda Bland Jefferson

Linda Jefferson

Linda was an elementary school teacher and taught in the Lima, Mansfield, Toledo and Columbus School Systems. After obtaining a master’s degree she applied for a position as a Language Arts editor and worked for the Merrill Publishing Company and then the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company for 15 years.

She and her husband, the late Eugene B. Jefferson, have two children and three grandsons. Linda published a children’s book for her mother, Geneva Ferguson Bland. Herman and the Mini-Bus With Soul was published in 1994 and is now a part of many home, school, and church libraries throughout the United States and in some countries abroad.

After retiring from the publishing company Linda now works in the family real estate business, does community service and is an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and Shiloh Baptist Church. She also travels as much as possible and pursues her hobbies. She enjoys making personalized dolls and G.G. Raddbearie for Dr. Tommie Radd’s Grow With Guidance program.