How do you see yourself? It’s a thought we revisit often; because how you see yourself shapes your thoughts and inspires how you do things. And when that inspiration comes from your truest life perspective you’ll discover that you are ‘Royalty” from the supreme, preeminent royal family with its multi-faceted provisions backing your life’s journey. This is your ‘designed identity’, authored by the Creator, and one that will transform and help you reach your highest potential. A life with few regrets, leaving a legacy you’ll be proud of!

At GEMS Life Skills Academy, we’ll help you discover your truest identity. We start by teaching life skills you may not have learned in traditional school, giving you the preparation you need to help you launch independently into life’s landscape. Through our courses that reinforce Biblical truth, you’ll learn life disciplines, discover and elevate your truest identity, and reposition your thinking to grow in excellence.
You, along with your parents or guardians, have spent most of your formative years preparing to be able to succeed on your own and exercise the gift of free will. You’ve studied hard to earn the highest GPA to qualify you for your college or trade school of choice. You may have participated in music, sports or another activity that could qualify you for a scholarship. But these alone will not take you where you need to be.
You need additional life skills. One of these is nonverbal communication. After all, your manners, disciplines and demeanor say a lot about you before you ever say one word. And at GEMS, we believe how you show up is how you go up. We want to prepare you to become the most excellent version of YOU. We’ll help you polish the life skills you use every day – which will help get you where you want be: chosen, promoted, respected and confident.
Through our highly interactive learning modules, we’ll help you transform your character and life disciplines to direct you from the “default life” to your unique “Designer lifestyle,” the one you were designed to life.

Why Us

GEMS Life Skills Academy addresses the whole individual from the inside out, unlike other etiquette and protocol schools that only teach outward behavior modification.
Your true identity affects your choices at the heart level deep within. Since you shape your future with your choices, it’s important to choose wisely. We’ll equip you to do just that.
And because life happens around food, we start each lesson in the kitchen, where you’ll develop lifelong techniques and knowledge to fuel your body for lifelong peak performance. We’ll also teach you hygiene, good manners, speaking techniques and how to introduce people.
At GEMS Life Skills Academy, we teach both etiquette and manners, but the two are distinctly different. Etiquette is a civil code of conduct or customs of an authority. Manners go beyond that — they’re from the heart of an individual. We develop “Designer” character from the inside out.
Do you struggle with confidence? Do you struggle with fear of the future? Do you feel like you don’t have it all together? As you learn your true identity, you’ll find that God knows your path. He knows your best life.
Through our courses, you’ll learn how to tap into your God-given authority to navigate your life with excellence in every facet of your uniquely formed being.
Join us! We invite you to connect with us in any of our course formats that best suit your schedule. We look forward to serving you.

Bio

Merita Day, Founding Director of GEMS Life Skills Academy, is an author and speaker around her passion to see individuals make choices from their true identity, making the shift from default living to “designer lifestyle:” A lifestyle that reflects the genuine, distinctive GEM that you are designed to be — highly valued and esteemed. Merita, a culinary graduate, brings with her over a decade of experience assisting many celebrated and famous chefs across our country and abroad.

• Culinary instructor and in-home consultant for Williams-Sonoma.
• Whole, ‘Designer’ food enthusiast
• 30+ years of biblical study
• Master Gardener Volunteer ( studied onsite at O.A.R.D.C., Cleveland Botanical Gardens, Holden Arboretum, Stan Hywet Gardens and the like)
• Mother and Life coach of four children, (now successfully launched adults)
• Three decades of customer sales and relationship experience
• Proud resident of the Greater Cleveland area with her husband, Tim