Helen Blocker-Adams is the former local talk radio show host for ‘People and Issues with Helen’, which aired weekdays 12 noon – 3 p.m. on NewsRadio 1230 WNRR AM January 15, 2007 through June 26, 2009. She is the first and only woman in Augusta to host a three hour, five day a week radio talk show. Helen now hosts a primetime local talk radio program called ‘The Helen Blocker Adams Show’, which airs weeknights 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. on SonShine 103- FM/1600 AM WKZK.
Moving to an FM dial, increased listenership, webstreaming and podcasting are a few of the new features that Helen enjoys. She is a former political candidate, a community and political activist, professional speaker and published author. Helen is also a columnist for the Augusta Medical Examiner.
Helen is Executive Director/Founder of The Southeast Enterprise Institute (SEI), Inc., a 501 ©3) non-profit human advocacy and youth leadership development organization. SEI improves human quality of life and well-being and promotes and teaches leadership skills to help people succeed in a Global marketplace.
One of SEIs programs, Hope IS Possible, is a self-help talk therapy support group for women, especially single mothers and is designed to help restore fragmented families. The program was inspired after the death of two children at the hands of their mother in November 2007.
Helen started her entrepreneurial quest in May 1991 with The HBA Group, Intl, a seventeen-year old firm that provides Marketing and Business to Business Events Planning Services for the public and private sector. She has committed much of her life to working with people and transforming communities — one person at a time. Her natural Civic Entrepreneurial and Servant-Leadership style is the catalyst to her success as a leader and visionary. Helen has a collaborative leadership approach to life and business that engages and energizes people to ‘want’ to roll up their sleeves and become part of the solution to social, political and economic challenges.
Having lived in Japan, Germany and Italy during the first sixteen years of her life and extensive travel to East Africa and Europe as an adult have given Helen an extraordinary ability to work with diverse groups of people.
Helen has also written numerous articles on community economic development, networking, diversity, small business and entrepreneurship; conducted hundreds of entrepreneurial development training sessions throughout the southeast region; spoken to thousands of people on business related topics; served on numerous panel discussions on community economic development and small business development; and has mentored hundreds of individuals on small business related matters.
Helen has self-published two inspirational books entitled “Enthusiasm, Catch It, It’s Contagious’ and “Escape the Comfort Trap’ which are highly interactive books that contains spiritual and economic principles, exercises and pearls of wisdom.
Some of Helen’s current and past community and business involvement and leadership awards include:
CURRENT BOARDS:
Co-Chairperson – Community Campaign, The Salvation Army Ray Kroc Community Center; Board Member, American Red Cross of Augusta; Board Member, Symphony Orchestra Augusta; Board Member, Safe Homes of Augusta; Board Member, Georgia Association of Broadcasters; Member, Augusta-Richmond County Citizens Business Advisory Council; Chair, Glenn Hills FBLA Business Advisory Council; Steering Committee Member, Pride ‘n Progress of Augusta-Richmond County and Member, Committee for Good Government.
AWARDS/RECOGNITION/COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:
Recipient of the Leadership Award from the Metro Augusta Chamber of Commerce Leadership Augusta 2008; Nominated for the Augusta Renaissance Sister CEO Kudzu Award (2009); Recipient of the Neighborhood Improvement Project, Inc. Community Champion Award for Economic Development (2008); Participated in the first MCG Augusta in Scrubs (2008); Former Georgia House of Representatives District 120 Candidate (2006); Former Mayoral Candidate for Augusta-Richmond County (2005); Founder/Facilitator of 9-year old South Augusta Business @ Breakfast (2002); Protégé Graduate of the Governor’s Mentor/Protégé 2005-2006 program; Recipient of a scholarship from the Governor’s Mentor/Protégé program to attend the four-day 39th Annual Economic Development Basic Course at Georgia Tech; Chair, Government Day, Metro Augusta Chamber of Commerce 2009/2010; Chair, Media and Government, Metro Augusta Chamber of Commerce Leadership Augusta 2007/2008, 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 Class; Chair, Economic Development Day for Metro Augusta Chamber of Commerce Leadership Augusta Class 2006/2007; 35th Signal Brigade Honorary Lieutenant in the U.S. Army; and 1994 Recipient, Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism Awards, Cindy Pleasants Award for Community Service Journalism for ‘Bridging the Gap’ Community affairs television show on WRDW-TV.
PAST BOARDS
Former Member, Statewide Small Business Development Advisory Council; Former Member, Kiwanis Club, Former Co-chair of Economic Development Committee for the Human Relations Blue Ribbon Committee; Former Board Member, Augusta South Rotary; Former Advisory Member, Junior Achievement; Former Member, Augusta-Richmond County AHEDD Economic Development Loan Fund Committee; Former Advisory Board Member, U.S. Small Business Administration, Georgia District; Former Member, Augusta Mayor Bob Young Business Action Team (MBAT); Former Strategy Committee Member, CSRA Community Economic Development Strategy (CEDS); Former Board Member, Augusta Savannah Regional Performing Arts Theater; and former Board Member Augusta Mini Theater.
Helen is a proud graduate Glenn Hills High in Augusta. She has a BA degree in Journalism, with emphasis in Broadcast Media and a Minor in Political Science from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Ga.
