Ida Byrd-Hill’s mission, to improve people’s lives financially, is weaved throughout her entire life;

First as a Human Resources professional focused in recruiting for McNamee, Porter and Seeley, Trustcorp Bank (now Key Corp), Domino's Farms Services.

Secondly, 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.

Thirdly, as an Executive Search Consultant, aka “Headhunter Extraordinaire” where she placed 72 attorneys in the patent, environmental and FDA areas.

Lastly, she has spent the last 10 years 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.

Today, She is the Co-Founder of Weyn, LLC created to solve a multiplicity of problems. The first being diversity inclusion. Ida, an African American woman near the age of 50, has been playing video games since the invention of the Atari gaming console. She has grown tired of the discussion whether women, people of color or those over the age of 25 play video games. They do.

She believes consumer video games entertain and educate in ways a typical school or corporate training program can not.

She keeps implementing ideas to reinvent urban cities into incubators of economic prosperity and excellence. 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 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 President of Uplift, Inc. 501 (c) 3 Idea Incubator.

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 subcommittee and a Lifetime member of the Belle Isle Conservancy.