Founder
and Chief Facilitator of A'Dorn Studios School Without Walls career mentoring and seminar programs, formerly A'Dorn Studios
Modeling School and Talent Agency. Wanda is one of the nation's premier veteran International Corporate Business Protocol
and Communications, Business Dining and Etiquette, and Cultural Diversity Inclusion Image Strategists, with three decades
of experience. A dynamic speaker and presenter, she is trainer to stars, corporations, politicians, governmental agencies
and foreign business executives conducting business in the United States.
Bridge the racial divide is what Wanda did more than 40 years ago when she became the
first "Colored" Stewardess for a major airline. Always a pioneer, a chance taker, often following her heart
into uncharted territories many young African American women in the 60's were not yet allowed or were afraid to go.
Wanda began her career evolution as a young model in Chicago. At age 16, she attended modeling school, and won her first
scholarship for dress designing. She has continued to bridge the racial divide throughout her life's work in her quest
to improve the image of African American women.
Wanda's commitment
to teaching and training began in the mid '70's, when she taught modeling at "John Robert Powers", and "Marnee
Jones" modeling schools. This led her to open her own modeling school and talent agency, franchised by "Screen
Actors Guild" (SAG), and "American Federation of Television and Radio Artists" (AFTRA). Currently, serves
on the "National Diversity Equal Employment Opportunity" Committee of SAG. She studied and trained in "International
Protocol and Business Etiquette in the Nation's Capitol, Washington, D. C.
Wanda holds teacher credentials in "Fashion Merchandising", and "Business Management".
She is the author of three books, "The Black Woman's Guide to Becoming World-Class Competitive", "Deals are
Made at the Dining Table not in the Boardroom", and "The Only Minority in the Workplace, Group or Organization";
presently writing "Welcome Aboard Flight ... We Don't Hire Colored Stewardesses". She has produced, directed
and facilitated over 300 fashion shows, seminars, workshops, trainings and events nationally and internationally. She
has co-produced several short films, produced and hosted several television talk shows; is a fashion and advice columnist,
founder of the televised pageant, "The Black Model of the Year", "The Little Miss", and "The Miss
Kemet America", and served as a political and civic official, and a former candidate for the School Board District.
"Dollars and Sense Magazine" named Ms. Dorn one of the "Top
100 Business and Professional Women in America". She was honored in "Who's Who in Entertainment", and
"Who's Who in Women". Among her other litany of honors and awards, she is an award-wining political activist,
receiving commendations from Congresspersons, State Legislators, Mayors, City Council, Board of Supervisors, Commission on
the Status of Women, and other local, national and international groups.
Because of her commitment to Black Women's issues, Ms. Dorn is often referred to as "Ambassador".
Ambassador Dorn is a world traveler whose seminars and workshops provide a global roadmap for etiquette, business protocol
and diversity, helping motivated women and men do as the title of one of her seminars says, "Outclass Your Competition.
