About Us
Founder
Specializing in “Transformative” and Professional Communication Services, P.S. Perkins understands, relates and shares the art and science of Human Communication like no other practitioner in her field! Combining 30 years of specialized education, teaching, creating and applying the field of effective communication practices, the Human Communication Institute provides the best in communication skill development for personal, social and professional accomplishment.
What Makes the HCI Vision so Groundbreaking?
We focus on the individual’s desire to GROW and TRANSFORM bringing their individual best for the collective good.
P.S. Perkins, Founder and Chief Creative Officer of the Human Communication Institute, is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill’s and NYU’s Schools of Communication, is a noted expert in the field of Human Communication and the Communication Arts. As a Motivational Speaker, Human Communication Specialist, Behavioral Communication Trainer, Curriculum Developer, and Communication Artist, P.S. offers discussions/facilitations, workshops, and modules on a myriad of Human Communication topics including: Leading with Influential Communication; Generation Z Voices: Home, Community, Workforce; Family and Interpersonal Relationship Health, Generational Language Legacy/Epigenetics, Intercultural Communication: Building Bridges with Divergent Thinking; Creating Bridges Through Acknowledging, Sharing and Respecting Our Stories; Civic Communication and Community Policing; Cross-Cultural Communication and Public Health Concerns; and Edutaining Through the Communication Arts.
P.S. is a published author of Human Communication practices as well as creative fiction, poetry, and prose. Her digitized excerpt from the Amazon Kindle #1 Bestseller, 30 Days to Success Guide and Planner: Conversations About Communication: InWORD OutWORD, 2022, offers a process for understanding the inside-out function thoughts/words/emotions play in the materialization of an individuals and collective lives. (HCI/PWT). 77 Best Ways to Communicate in 7 Steps, 2022, provides clearly adaptable practices to effectively use within the variety of communication settings we all experience daily. Utilizes the Communication Staircase Model.
P.S. writing includes a variety of genres from published white papers, to short stories to poetry. Most recently published, Poems From The Green, 2023 Collection, Poets on the Green Line, and consistent bi-annual contributor short story and poetry, to Reflections Magazine, PGCC, 2017 – present, MD.
Her seminal book The Art and Science of Communication: Effective Communication in the Workplace, Wiley Publishers, 2008, introduces her widely acclaimed Communication Staircase Model™ and its effectiveness advancing positive change within the Communication Climate.
Recent Human Communication Institute client list includes Prince George’s Community College, Keynote, DEIB and Mindfulness training; University of the District of Columbia, Facilitator, training Specialist and UDC Artist Collective Founder; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Interpersonal and Intercultural Communication Training; Poets on the Green Line, Facilitation and Curriculum Developer; and HumanitiesDC, Facilitation and Program advisor, among others.
P. S.’s current research includes focusing on Behavioral Communication Mindfulness and Responsiveness; Environmental Communication/Epigenetics; Generational Language Legacy and the vital need to support Human Communication Studies to create healthier communication climates in personal, social and professional settings.
One of her favorite sayings is:“Be true to your word and it will be true to you!” as she says “and that’s my WORD!”
Professional Consultants
Timothy Daniels Knight
Professional Certified Scrum Master and Project Management Leader
Professional certified Scrum Master and Project Management Leader with extensive experience in communications and virtual media. Managed large-scale implementations from beginning to end. Communicate effectively between business and technical areas to ensure that projects are completed on time, on budget, and according to specifications. Meet customer and user needs while balancing business requirements, budgetary concerns, and logistical considerations. Timothy’s specialization includes extensive internal and external messaging within the Healthcare Industry.
Colleen Bent
MSIT, Web Developer
Colleen Bent’s love of technology is different from most other IT professionals. Her passion lies not simply with technology itself, but with using technology to help individuals and organizations fulfill their missions, goals, and potential. Years of working for top companies have equipped her with excellent soft skills (project management, team player, information sharing, and communications). She advised and guided a number of smaller companies into IT “readiness.” One former client observed, “Colleen has a unique ability to understand the perspective of the non-technical user and empathize with end users.”
Her core values include spiritual growth, creativity, excellence, and integrity.
BS, MSM, Assitant Chief of Police (Retired)
Rodney Parks is a former Assistant Chief of Police with the Metropolitan Police Department. He retired in 2013, after thirty-one years in law enforcement and serving numerous operational, investigative and programmatic units of the Department. He served as Assistant Chief of the Metropolitan Transit Police and interim Assistant Director of the Medstar Washington Hospital Center Security. He has led numerous projects to analyze and improve law enforcement operations and performance.
Mr. Parks currently works as an adjunct professor with Penn State Public Safety & justice Institute, University of the District of Columbia and instructor with the BenchMark Professional Seminar Company. Mr. Parks has serves as Academic Director for the Georgetown Forensic Institute Summer Camp and Summer Discovery Program for middle and high school students. His law enforcement career includes assignments in patrol, traffic, disciplinary unit, training academy, homicide branch lieutenant and commander, commander of criminal investigations and assistant chief of professional responsibility. Mr. Parks has Bachelors and Master’s degree in Management from the Johns Hopkins University.
Professor of English, RTVMP Pioneer and
Co-host of the 2025+ podcast WORDS WITS WISDOMS
Laurence S. Covington is a recent retiree from the University of the District of Columbia. Professor Covington taught in the English Department for 17 years. His dedication to his profession and the students and communities he serves, is widely recognized and applauded – never willing to live one mind behind! Larry’s love of language and the spoken word led him early on to study dialects and practice diction by reading the Bible aloud. He studied regional dialects from a coach at East Carolina University during his last year in Marine Corps! His rich vocal qualities were recognized and utilized moving through the ranks.
A native Washingtonian , he served in the United States Marine Corps for 4 years and a Viet Nam veteran. Over the years, Professor Covington’s career in what was then known as RTVMP, began as a paid intern with Black Pioneer TV News Journalist, Max Robinson at WTOP-TV (now WUSA-TV) in Washington, D.C. This opportunity led to him being cast in a speaking role in the internationally acclaimed TMC CLASSIC movie, ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN, 1976. His first radio announcer gig was with WCMS FM “where country music swings everyday”! NEWS Norfolk VA. His verbal and vocal prowess often surprised his station fans when he visually appeared! It was a wonderful training ground for learning to transcend cultural boundaries and bring his authentic style of engagement. One climatic career event was his Washington, D.C. Channel 5 metro media show “Black Reflections” a late evening adult talk show. One guest was famed musician and civic rights spokesperson, James Brown. Around the same time, Petey Greene took D.C. by storm and Black Reflections was overshadowed; however, he and Petey became close associates. Larry joined many early pioneers of media where African Americans have led the way and excelled. Mr. Laurence S. Covington joins the Human Communication Institute as a writer, editor, speaker AND the Co-host of the 2025+ podcast WORDS WITS WISDOMS! COVLOV is back!
Professional Image Consultant
Bonnie Dickson is a live and virtual business photographer that believes in the concept of first impressions. She empowers entrepreneurs, and small business owners to have a strong digital visual first impression. Bonnie does that through the use of professional customized photography and image polishing.
From the initial consultation right through to the image delivery, Bonnie provides business owners with a friendly, supportive, and empowering photographic experience.
What makes Bonnie different than other photographers, is her extensive background as a digital artist for movies. The digital image skills she learned and honed regarding image editing, have provided Bonnie with the ability to polish an image while maintaining its authenticity, you will look like you after an image has been edited! Plus Bonnie provides a friendly & comfortable photography experience that is customized for your business. I encourage you to connect with her directly.
Bonnie’s services include:
- Existing Image Polishing
- Headshot Marketing Formatting
- Social Media Formatting
- Product Photography
- Business Portrait Headshot Webinar
- 1:1 Virtual Photography Lesson
Performance Coach & Business Consultant @ Life Changing Conversations LLC
Wallstreet Jones is a Lean Innovation & Business Model Coach, dedicated to helping early-stage founders and business leaders sharpen their focus on the high-impact outcomes that drive consistent, successful results.
With nearly 20 years of experience in business and life coaching, and background in strategic project management, Wallstreet brings an in-depth understanding of how people truly operate—gained from his lifelong study of language, motivation, and productivity patterns.
This insight enables him to go beyond merely offering the “right answer” to the complex challenges we face; instead, he reshapes people’s perception of the problem and thus potential solutions.
Wallstreet believes that the challenges of the day demand collaboration and that our most valuable resource is communication. Through purposeful conversation, he highlights what’s essential and what’s at stake, knowing that every conversation has the power to transform lives.
Currently based in Washington, DC, Wallstreet lives with his wife and three children and enjoys hiking in Great Falls National Park.
“Wealth is not what we acquire, it’s what we demonstrate. It can never be found outside unless it is first found within.” — WSJones
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