She has taught and facilitated numerous workshops on communication skills, prevention of sexual harassment, building skill in dealing with change, and personal development. She has outstanding skill in interpreting the MBTI and working with teams to improve ways of interacting, using the MBTI as a tool. She has completed advanced workshops on using the MBTI through NTL and Otto Kroeger Associates.

She has a strong business and Human Resources background, having worked at UNUM and General Electric for over twenty years. As a Human Resource Consultant at UNUM, she worked closely with senior management, and was instrumental in paving the way for UNUM's acknowledged leadership in diversity. She pioneered the Dialogues on Diversity, the Chairman's Roundtables, and the Advocates for Diversity Education and Awareness. Early in her career Ms. Silva worked as a school psychologist, and as an employee relations specialist.

Ms. Silva attained her B.A. degree in French from Brown University. She earned her Masters degree in Counseling Psychology from Cambridge College, Cambridge, MA. Her masters' research investigated the MBTI and its relationship to depression in women. She has completed NTL's program in diversity. She is currently enrolled in the Saybrook Graduate School doctoral program in Humanistic Clinical Psychology with an interest in Transpersonal Psychology and Spirituality.

Ms. Silva has worked as a member of the Diversity Consortium at Harvard University, and as a member of LOMA's Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Committee. She was appointed to the Maine Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. She has been a guest speaker on diversity for USM, and for the New Hampshire chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management.

Ms. Silva is a member of the American Counseling Association, the Association for Psychological Type, and the Maine Association for Psychological Type, and the APA Division of Humanistic Psychology.

Born and raised in Newport, Rhode Island, Ms. Silva currently lives in Portland, Maine. She is the proud mother of two sons, Paul Christopher Silva and Gregory Silva.