Ida Byrd-Hill’s mission, to improve people’s lives financially, is weaved throughout her entire life; first as a financial advisor, where she grew a firm from 0 to 353 million in managed assets for 2200 individual clients and 10 corporate clients. Then as an Executive Search Consultant, aka “Headhunter Extraordinaire” where she placed 72 attorneys in the patent, environmental and FDA areas. Today, she is an urban economist and Ideapreneur seeking to spur the largest matriculation of urban residents, both parents and students, into automation jobs by immersing them in invention, technology and entrepreneurial activities at home, at school and in the community.

Essence Magazine in its May 2010 article, Helping Our Children Achieve Excellence, states “Byrd-Hill is the very personification of Detroit's refusal to surrender.” She keeps implementing education focused ideas to reinvent urban cities into incubators of economic prosperity and excellence.

She is the inventor of Fluke – the wealth building game of accidental inventions, radical transformer of 5 urban public schools, the creator of the first cyber blended alternative high school catering to adjudicated youth in America - Hustle & TECHknow Preparatory High School and CEO of WEYN, LLC, a startup video game developer.

She has presented at iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning), ISTE (International Society of Technology in Education), National Charter School Conference, Inner City Economic Summit 2013, New York State STEM Conference 2014, National Alternative School Conference 2014, NABSE (National Association of Black School Educators) Annual Conference 2014, Techweek Detroit 2015 and MEATA (Michigan Educators Apprenticeship and Training Association) Spring Conference 2015.
She earned a MBA from the Jack Welch Management Institute at Strayer University 2014 after receiving a Bachelor’s of Arts in Economics 1989 from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. She serves as the Chair of the LIFT (Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow) Workforce Development Youth Attraction to Manufacturing subcommittee.

Ida Byrd-Hill is the divorced mother of twins, Karen and Kevin Hill, who attended Detroit School of arts a Detroit Public school and then matriculated to Western Michigan University and Rochester Institute of Technology, respectively.