Meet Dr. Norma Love-Schropshire

Founder, consultant, and coach of Guiding Light Consulting Services and creator of Love Is a Lifestyle®. Known to clients as Dr. Norma, and to many as “Doctor Love.”

Her story

Dr. Norma has spent more than 25 years helping people and organizations grow. She is an award-winning associate professor at a Carnegie Research One (R1) institution, as well as a trainer, researcher, and published author. Students, colleagues, and clients know her as “Doctor Love,” a name that reflects her belief that love, practiced with skill, changes lives and institutions.

Her approach, which she calls a pedagogy of love, pairs high standards with real care: clear goals, honest feedback, and steady encouragement. Through Guiding Light Consulting Services, she brings that approach to individuals, couples, families, executives and other leaders, and organizations as an online life coach, ADHD and executive functioning coach, executive and leadership coach, and higher education consultant serving clients across the United States, and to Love Is a Lifestyle®, her framework for practicing love every day.

Dr. Norma has been married for more than 25 years and raised a son and daughter who are now adults. Love Is a Lifestyle® is how she lives at home, not only what she teaches.

Education & recognition

Doctor of Social Work (DSW)
Master of Social Work (MSW) and Bachelor of Science (BS)
Graduate certificate in business administration and human resources management
Master of Business Administration (MBA) in human resources management (expected 2030)
University of Michigan alumna
President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
Inducted into the Academy of Teachers
Published author and researcher

Guiding Light Consulting Services is an independent business. Its services are not provided on behalf of, or endorsed by, any university or employer.

Our values

Professionalism

Rigor, integrity, and follow-through.

Collaboration

You lead; we build the plan together.

Humanity

Care and respect for the whole person.

Equity

Access, fairness, and belonging for all.

Ready when you are

Coaching, consulting, training, and speaking, online for clients across the United States.

Teaching, speaking, and serving

Moments from the classroom, the podium, and the community.

Guiding Light Consulting Services, LLC, an online coaching and consulting practice serving clients nationwide · Voicemail or text: (313) 241-0883 · norma@guidinglightconsulting.net

Coaching and consulting services are not therapy, counseling, mental health treatment, or crisis intervention, and do not replace them. Any clinical crisis is referred out. In an emergency, call 911. In a crisis, call or text 988. Guiding Light Consulting Services, LLC is an independent business, not affiliated with or endorsed by any university or employer.