Elizabeth Ellington

Key Responsibilities:

Program Development:

• Develop a pilot program as a model for other community colleges. Researched and selected Google Project Management, which I am teaching. Created a program for English Language Learners to get their certificate in Hospitality. Our first semester, 17 ELLs received their first certification in the US.

Instructional Leadership:

• Schedule, oversee, and teach classes, developing and modifying curriculum for both online and face-to-face settings.

Faculty Management:

• Hire, supervise, and support adjunct faculty, conducting formal observations and providing professional development.

Program Assessment:

• Assess the effectiveness of educational materials and standards-based curriculum, monitoring program effectiveness and identifying areas for growth.

Student Support:

• Advise students and monitor their progress, providing individualized support.

Teaching adult learners in the classroom, engaging a variety of modalities.

• Skills: Classroom Management
• Classroom prep
• Teaching
• Student engagement
• Advising

• Designed, created and delivered courses for over 4,000 students
• I help owners reverse engineer the 5 star review to have 4 figure months
• Created courses in LearnDash (WordPress) Teachable, Kajabi and Podia
• Created workbooks, quizzes, and tasks for further learning opportunities
• Students worked at their own pace, with optional cohort based opportunities for highly motivated learners.
• Led online and in-person masterminds
• Consultant for the vacation rental community, designing homes for guests.
• Skills: Hospitality Consulting
• Classroom Management
• Classroom prep
• E-Learning
• Instructional Design
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Performance Improvement
• Communication
• Digital Marketing
• Hundreds of 5 Star Reviews at my own properties
• Superhost since the program started

• I help people find their path and make a plan to create a peaceful, fulfilling life.
• My biggest strengths are empathy, positivity, and discovering strengths and character features others might not see.
• Skills: Leadership
• ADHD Coaching
• Transformational Life Coaching
• Designed safe and supportive environment for clients to discuss issues.

• Own and manage a portfolio of short term rentals in Hendersonville, NC.
• Design 33 vacation rentals - from forks to fire extinguishers to everything in between
• I love Hendersonville and am happy to host happy guests as a Superhost and Guest Favorite
• Created budgets, paid 1099 contractors monthly, coordinated maintenance and cleaning, managed reservations for 18 properties, all while maintaining a 4.9 out of 5 star guest experience.
• Complied with state and local regulations

• Author of Money Making Vacation Rentals, a comprehensive road map of owning, managing, marketing and profiting from a short term rental.

• I design wow on a budget for vacation rental owners to increase guest delight and the 5 star experience

• Editor of digital magazine focused on the vacation rental industry.
• Started company as the sole writer and photographer, when Covid struck and we folded the magazine, I had 50 writers and photographers contributing to the magazine

• Owned and managed a portfolio of 14 long term rentals.
• Designed and built a 4 unit apartment building.
• Was able to keep all of my properties through the 2007-2009 recession.
• Screened tenants carefully and designed apartments for longer than average tenant occupancy.
• Skills: Budgeting
• Tenant Retention
• Project Management
• Training contractors

• Purchased raw land, designed and built luxury 3 bed, 3 bath villa on Fiji's Suncoast.
• Offshore sales, marketing and management.
• Training was my most critical role - as I needed to have my staff deliver a 5 Star experience when they lived in basic accommodations (corrugated metal shack with no electricity or running water) in a 2nd world country.
• Hundreds of 5 star reviews
• Sold the house I built as an ongoing business with website, customer list, and trained staff

• Working with clients to make their websites perform well and create effective social media campaigns
• Perform Site Audits on your website, checking 43 key areas for optimal performance, do the SEO research needed and write copy that clicks with customers as well as search engines.
• Skills: SEO Certified Copywriter
• Hospitality
• Copywriting
• Travel Marketing Consulting
• Marketing
• Training

• Company Overview: https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=Ship+%27n+Shore+Travel+and+Tours
• Designed vacation experiences for a wide variety of guests.
• Handled travel issues as they arose (ie. cancelled flight).
• Coded website in HTML on dial up computer and built a business on the internet as it was in its infancy.
• Https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=Ship+%27n+Shore+Travel+and+Tours
• Skills: Customer Service
• Web Design
• Email Marketing
• Marketing