Ashaunta Epps is the CEO and Founder of the Charlotte, NC based organization, A Perfect Swing, Inc. whose mission is to help individuals use golf as a networking tool to advance in their career, with a 501c3 nonprofit youth Foundation whose mission is to introduce golf as a low impact alternative sport, while providing youth development workshops and events to enhance their leadership, communication, and networking skills. Using strategic brand management, she’s established A Perfect Swing as a footprint in the golf and networking arena.
Ashaunta is a Class A Member with the Ladies Professional Golfers’ Association (LPGA), where she was named the 2021 LPGA Southeast Section Professional of the Year and 2020 Teacher of the Year. She also serves as the LPGA’s Southeast Section President, Executive Committee liaison for the national Member Growth Committee and Chairperson for the LPGA Professionals national Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts.
Ashaunta is an African American Golfers Hall of Fame Inductee and has been recognized nationally as an outstanding Leader in Golf by the African American Golfers’ Digest. She’s won countless local and national golf competitions. She took longest drive and low gross honors in the Black Enterprise Golf and Tennis Challenge two years in a row at PGA National Golf Club in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
Ashaunta is the featured instructor for the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship Clinics show, Let’s Talk Golf with Ashaunta, a series of informational, with a bit of entertainment, golf videos. She was an Instructor for the LPGA Leadership Academy, the LPGA Golf Academy, and serves as an LPGA/USGA Girls Golf Site Director and PGA Jr. League Captain.
Ashaunta holds a Bachelor and Master’s degree in Computer Science and currently works as a Modern Service Management Consultant for Microsoft Corporation. She’s a proud native of Kingstree, SC.
Ashaunta is also the Chief Operating Officer for The Coalition for Teens Helping Teens and Vice President for Polished Pearls Leadership Seminars for Teen Girls. She is also a member of the Charlotte Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., the Charlotte Chapter of National Black Master of Business Administration Association, Women in Technology International (WITI), and Home and Foreign Mission Development Center (Kingstree, SC). She is dedicated to giving back to her community through the sponsorship of youth golf days, Back-to-School supplies drives, mentoring high school athletes, tutoring, and serving in various community service projects.
Website: www.aperfectswing.net
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