Chanelle R. Walker, M. Ed.

Chanelle R. Walker, M.Ed. is the founder and CEO of Professional Inspiration. She is known as the Teacher Wellness Guru, inspires educators across the country to live a life of wellness, purpose and greatness. Walker’s passion to inspire educators to be well and stay connected to their passion began long before the Covid-19 pandemic drew attention to teacher burnout. Walker, who has 20 years of experience as an educator, 10 of which were as a middle school ELA teacher, brought her advocacy for teacher wellness and burnout prevention to the TEDx stage in 2019 in a talk titled, “The Elephant in the Classroom”, which now has over a quarter of a million views. Since then, Walker has inspired and taught thousands of educators from New York to as far as Hawaii on topics such as educator resilience, educator preservation, growth mindset, burnout prevention, mindfulness and motivation.

Walker, who is an author, course developer, part-time professor and national speaker, is on a mission to inspire educators through professional growth opportunities that give participants L.I.F.E. - That’s Learning, Inspiration, Fun and Empowerment. With hope, courage, expertise and a ton of tenacity, Walker is committed to being a change agent that will help shift the culture in schools so that there will be a focus on education and wellness for all.

Walker’s accolades include a bachelor’s degree from Kent State University and a Master’s of Education from Notre Dame College. She’s a three¬-time “Who’s Who in Black Cleveland” award recipient, adjunct professor at Ashland University and she aims to complete her doctorate in education studying the impact of educator burnout on instruction and achievement.