Celeste Roberts’ Bio

Celeste Roberts is dedicated to helping young people develop the potential within themselves. She has more than 15 years of experience working with non-profit organizations in Tampa, Florida and Cleveland, Ohio at the United Way of Tampa Bay, the Boys and Girls Club of Tampa Bay and Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority.

While working as an associate in the Community Services Department at the United Way of Tampa Bay, Celeste managed 23 non-profit agencies with a combined allocation budget of $3.6 million. She also recruited top management volunteers to help evaluate those programs. Working in agency relations, she spearheaded campaign events, facilitated community forums and managed United Way's partner agency evaluations.

Celeste then moved to the Boys and Girls Club of Tampa Bay to start fulfilling her passion of helping teenagers. As the Director of the Youth Opportunity Movement, she developed a program using a $3.3 million grant from the United States Department of Labor. She created a 5-year program assisting more than 600 young people ages 14-21 from the Tampa Bay area. More than three hundred and seventy-two of the students pursued a college education, employment, or occupational training.

Even though the federal grant was eliminated, Celeste continues to help young people but this time through her own company, IMPACTS Consulting Group with IMPACTS standing for Improving Multiple Programs and Communities Together Successfully. Through IMPACTS she helps organizations to design, enhance and manage programs that improve the lives of young people. IMPACTS has worked with Derrick Brooks Charities, Hillsborough County Public Schools, Manatee County Schools, Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA and other non-profit organizations since 2005.

In 2007, Celeste founded The Skills Center with Chris Ward and John Arroyo to provide the foundation for personal growth and development in young people ages 8-18 by influencing change through academics, life skills, and athletics. She is eager to help young people learn how to transfer lessons learned through athletics to everyday life as she learned by participating in high school sports.

She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Akron in 1991 and in 2007 completed graduate school at the University of Phoenix with a MBA.

Celeste finds the time to participate in several community organizations.

She and her husband Kenny and daughter Kennedy, live in Tampa, FL.