Darice Michelle Thompson, MBA and author of Table for 1, Please! has fifteen years experience in Advertising and Marketing. During her career, she has worked for top advertising agencies and consumer packaged goods companies; Leo Burnett U.S.A., Foote, Cone & Belding, and Procter & Gamble. 

Darice Michelle is also the founder of Designed IV Destiny LLC., a consulting firm dedicated to providing inspirational and educational resources.

Ms. Thompson began Designed IV Destiny LLC. in 2004 to merge both of her passions; marketing and helping others. This led to the subsidiary, Creating Your Reality®, a non-profit program designed to build self-esteem in young children (ages 9-12) through her unique curriculum of Etiquette, Entrepreneurship, and Sports.  And now the latest venture, the Table for One® franchise which includes; a book series on How to be a Live Victoriously as an Individual, inspirational music CD, Table IV One curriculum, and much more.

While her debut book, Table for 1, Please! empowers single women, it will be followed up by books for single men, married couples, and single parents.  Darice Michelle believes God has set her aside for such a time as this, to inspire, empower, and ignite victorious individuals to live joyful, purposeful, victorious lives through the power of being One with God.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

Ø       Author, Table for 1, Please!

Ø       Owner, founder Designed IV Destiny LLC.

Ø       Bounty spokesperson, as title sponsor of  Ed Gordon’s Daddy’s Promise

Ø       Media/Advertising Manager, launch initiatives for Got Milk?, Kellogg’s, Quaker and Tropicana

Ø       New Business Consultant - Doner Advertising, Harris Marketing Group

Ø       Creating Your Reality®  Director  (Summer ’05, Summer ’06)

Ø       Guest Lecturer, The Ohio State University School of Business

Ø       Mentor, American Association of Advertising Agencies MAIP program (recipient ’95)

Ø       Child/Youth Advocate -  Cabrini Connections, Salem Baptist Church of Chicago