The framework that turned a homeless shelter into a TEDx stage.
Dr. India White is the creator of the G.R.I.T. framework — a system for resilience, growth mindset, self-efficacy, and time management, taught to individuals, teams, and organizations around the world.
"Don't let your environment define you. You define you."
At sixteen, Dr. India White was put out of her own home and ended up in a homeless shelter. She built the G.R.I.T. framework out of what got her through it — and now teaches it to individuals, teams, and organizations navigating their own hard seasons.
She is an award-winning entrepreneur, a 3-time University of Florida graduate, and a 2022 Gators 40 Under 40 honoree. Her TEDx talk, TEDxOcala, has been watched by nearly 300,000 people.
Beyond the stage, she's a licensed minister, life coach, and mentor — a contract author for Savvas Learning, and a 15-year Florida public school math teacher, math coach, and Assistant Principal before that. She's a #1 international best-selling author with 45+ publications. She serves as a Florida Council of Teachers of Mathematics Executive Board Member and their Equity & Access Chair, is a former VP of the Hillsborough Alliance of Black School Educators (HABSE) and TSICAA, and has spoken for NABSE, NCTM, NCSM, and NSBA.
She has been honored as Woman of the Year by the National Association of Professional Women and "Most Successful in Business" by 100 Successful Women in Business, where she now serves as a Board Member — on top of Teacher of the Year honors in two counties, a McKnight Doctoral Fellowship, a Gates Millennium Scholarship, and membership in the Golden Key International Honor Society. She built a G.R.I.T. curriculum now used by individuals, schools, and organizations nationally — and turned a teenage homeless-shelter stay into a stage, a framework, and a movement that's still growing.
The talk that started it all
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