Suited For Life provides opportunities for individual and group counseling. Suited For Life also provides career counseling and workforce development training. 

Maurice Nelson, President/Founder

Maurice founded Suited for Life in 2009 and started a career as a certified image consultant to the male participants of the program. Maurice always wanted to stop the cycle of individuals focusing all their efforts on sports and not on education and a career path.

As a young man growing up in the west end of Louisville, KY, he longed for a positive alternative to the negative influences that were ever-present in his community. He desperately wanted to escape the grip of drugs, crime and poverty that had engulfed the inner-city generation after generation.

Maurice received the opportunity to take control of his destiny and escape his environment by receiving a basketball scholarship to Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. After college he continued on to play professionally in Europe.

After his return from Europe, Maurice spent 8 years in law enforcement as a Tulsa County Deputy Sheriff. In 2013 Maurice began a career in the behavioral health field and in May 2017, he earned a Master of Science degree in Rehabilitation Counseling-Licensed Professional Counseling track and is currently seeking licensing as an LPC. 

Staff

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Sharon Nelson: Licensed Professional Counselor
Mark Russell: Life Coach

Board Members

Corey Nichols
CEO Nichols and Son Construction Inc

Derrick Grayson
Midfirst Bank

Irvin Profit
MHR

​Isiah Epps

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