ABOUT
Our Collective is a mix of proven Solvers from diverse disciplines, generations and geographies hand selected to Go collide with your biggest challenges . . . until Workable Genius is created!
We come alongside organizations, educators & entrepreneurs to help create genius strategies, organizational design, Professional Development, Curriculum, Programs & experiences. All of our products and services are customized. We bake from scratch!
We see our offerings as an opportunity to maximize your genius. That is, the organization's, school district or businesses' unique value, housed in your people, product, service & mission.
We also support the journey of executives and professionals to develop their entrepreneurial passion, purpose and lifework.
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So Go consists of a diverse team sharing over 50 years of experience in creating and executing winning strategic thought, leading people and products towards becoming irreplaceble, in their respective industry."​ As a "boutique firm" our team consists of multi-disciplined, elite expertise. A team of qualified, experienced, value driven professionals with
Bright Minds & Big Hearts!
Lead Consultants
Bright Minds . . . Big Hearts
Milan Sanders
CEO / CVO
Milan created value for several years with one of the largest global consulting/outsourcing firms in Hewitt Associates (AoN). After progressing through the ranks to become a senior level associate, he launched out to start Chosen Business Consulting LLC (CBC) in 2005. His response to a glimpse of something missing within the management and educational consulting marketplace, he envisioned...CBC. After 13 years of progressive impact through CBC, he launched the upgraded version of that original vision, “The So.Go Collective”. So.Go exists to Co-create solutions, that go genius on clients biggest Strategic, Organizational & Educational challenges!
Through speaking engagements, university lectures, facilitating corporate equity workshops, retreats and "entrepreneurial interventions", Milan weaves together a creative yet effective approach to consulting. This can be seen throughout team So.Go’s approach to each client partnership." He continues to provide consulting service to entrepreneurs and small to midsized businesses, helping them identify their unique Genius( product/service/people) and support that with strategic planning and organizational development. Keeping a foot in the world outside formal learning environments has helped him advise beyond theory, toward practicality when consulting within academic and educational contexts.
Milan has contributed custom curriculum, learning experiences, instructional materials and professional development to School districts and charters . . . directly impacting 100,000+ students and administration.
As a professor, his courses range from Entrepreneurship to Christian Ethics.
Milan has been privileged to serve the DFPS Region 3 for the past decade helping prepare youth & teens who are aging out of the system, with life, career and relationship skills. He has been their go to speaker for these regional events, along with his wife, Kim.
Kim Sanders
Partner - V.P. Of Business Development
For the past 20 years, Kim has infused her creative marketing, inspiring leadership & management, contagious collaboration and effective communication to move people and organizations forward! She embodies the multi-disciplinary approach of our organization, with her educational background ranging from a BA in Communications (University of Texas at Arlington) to a MA in Educational Leadership(Dallas Theological Seminary).
Kim has facilitated several professional development sessions along with creating learning experiences, instructional material for higher ed in the DFW area. She has been privileged to serve the Department of Family Protective Services (DFPS) Region 3 for over a decade helping youth/teens prepare to age out of government care by helping build life, career and SEL relationship skills. She has been their go to speaker for their regional events, along with her husband, Milan. Kim and her team planned, coordinated and hosted a recent Annual State Aging Out conference for DFPS. She designed each event and engagement to equip the youth with content and relationships that helped them explore various career paths and learn about personal finance! Exemplary of her customized approach with the learner at the center.
Kim has also served as a federal government employee and representative for one of the most diverse Agency’s in the country. Serving as Area Manager, Coordinator for the investigative department and team lead for nationwide acquisition of temporary, Decennial offices for the US. Census Bureau. Kim lfacilitated professional development experiences to elevate her team's collaboration and effectiveness. Creating opportunities for SEL, cultural awareness and equity trainings within her region. Since 2010, Kim has been an adamant influence in bringing attention to, and training around the topic of Diversity ad Equity within academic and corporate settings. She brings that depth and expertise to bear on making sure learning experience, and professional development provided to districts directly connect with real world situations!
Dr. Richard Benson
Consultant
Dr. Richard D. Benson II is an Associate professor in the Education Studies Program at Spelman College in Atlanta. A native of Chicago, he earned a dual bachelor’s degree in sociology and political science from Saint Xavier University, an M.A. in inner city education studies from Northeastern Illinois University and a M.Ed. in instructional leadership, educational studies from the University of Illinois-Chicago. He completed a PhD in Educational Policy Studies specializing in the history of education at the University of Illinois. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Education Department at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. He has received a number of grants and awards including the UNCF/Mellon International Faculty Residency, The W. E. B. Du Bois Visiting Scholars Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the C.L.R. James Research Fellowship by the African American Intellectual History Society and the New York Public Library Fellowship. He is the award-winning author of Fighting for our Place in the Sun: Malcolm X and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement 1960-1973 (Peter Lang Publishing, 2015),which is a text that examines the linkages and inter-generational continuity of the Black Freedom Movement that evolved from the social pedagogy and political influences of Malcolm X.
His lectures have stretched from the U. of Vanderbilt, through the U. Of Oklahoma campus in Norman, to UMASS in Boston. Dr. Benson has extended his work beyond the campus and literary pages into FWISD, Chicago Public School providing consultation on creating curriculum, learning experiences, instructional material and professional development. He has also been a featured speaker within district events and workshops.
Vershawn Ward
Consultant
Critical to So.Go’s interdisciplinary approach, Vershawn brings a wealth of experience and insight in facilitating growing awareness and professional development in the pace of Cultural and Racial awareness, intelligence and development. She has provided Professional Development for educators within all regions of the Chicago Public School system, along with creating supporting content and instructional material. Utilizing her wholistic approach she also has created content connecting workshops that engage the broader community in which students and district staff reside. Vershawn brings a creative approach in taking principles and concepts from performing arts and translating them into functional experiences that enhance learning, team work and identity discovery within students and teachers across content areas! Lending her professional expertise on the synergy with how physical bodies co-exist, move and work together as a way of understanding how minds do that in the context of education and learning. She has also developed her choreographic skills into exciting and engaging professional development workshop moments!
A native of Chicago, Vershawn Ward holds a MFA in Dance from New York University and is the first recipient of a BFA in Dance from Columbia College Chicago (Gates Millennium Scholar.) She is the Founding Artistic Director and CEO of Red Clay Dance Company and is currently a candidate for Dunham Technique Certification. Sanders-Ward is a 2019 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Awardee, a 2019 Harvard Business School Club of Chicago Scholar, a 2017 Dance/USA Leadership Fellow, a 2013 3Arts awardee, and a 2009 Choreography Award from Harlem Stage NYC. In 2015 and 2018, NewCity Magazine selected Ward as one of the “Fifty People Who Really Perform for Chicago”. Her work has been presented in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, The Yard at Martha’s Vineyard, and internationally in Toronto, Dakar and Kampala. Vershawn has served as an adjunct faculty member and received choreographic commissions from Columbia College Chicago, Northwestern University, Knox College, City Colleges of Chicago, AS220, and the National Theatre in Uganda. She is a board member of Enrich Chicago and the African American Arts Alliance Illinois and was selected to attend the inaugural Obama Foundation Summit for Emerging Global Leaders. Sanders-Ward has had the pleasure of gracing the cover of DEMO, Columbia College Chicago’s Alumni Magazine!