What Grounds Our Work
We work with leaders and organizations who are navigating responsibility, change, and high expectations. Many of our clients are leading while managing visibility, pressure, and systems that were not designed with them in mind.
Our services are shaped by five core conditions that guide how we coach, advise, and build capacity. These conditions also help determine which partnerships are the best fit.
Awareness
We support leaders in understanding what is shaping their experience at work, including power, expectations, and organizational dynamics. Awareness allows decisions to be made with clarity rather than reaction.
Alignment
We help leaders and organizations clarify priorities, roles, and boundaries. Alignment shows up in decisions that reflect values, capacity, and long-term goals, particularly during transitions or periods of growth.
Authenticity
We create space for leaders to lead in ways that are grounded and honest, without overperforming, shrinking, or contorting themselves to meet misaligned expectations.
Abundance
We support leadership practices that are sustainable. This includes moving away from crisis-driven habits and toward pacing, shared responsibility, and realistic measures of success.
Accountability
We emphasize accountability that is clear, mutual, and humane. Our work strengthens feedback, decision-making, and responsibility without relying on fear, punishment, or avoidance.
How This Guides Our Services
We do our best work with clients who are ready for reflection, clarity, and shared responsibility. When an engagement reinforces urgency, misalignment, or unsustainable expectations, we may decline the work or offer a referral.
The services offered by my practice are directly informed by my experience working 25+ years in the social sector and my volunteerism. My work largely falls into three categories:
- Leadership Coaching
- Philanthropic Advising
- Speaking and Facilitation
Before folks reach out to work with me, I encourage them to learn more about me, my values, and my work with the folx listed below.
Who This Work Is For
This work is well suited for:
- Black women in leadership who are navigating visibility, responsibility, and pressure in predominantly white or inequitable environments, and who want clarity, steadiness, and sustainable ways of leading.
- Leaders in transition — new roles, expanded scope, succession planning, or moments of reassessment — who want support that honors both strategy and care.
- Donors and funders who are aligning their giving with justice, accountability, and long-term impact, particularly in the U.S. South and Global South.
- Organizations and teams ready to strengthen leadership practices, onboarding, feedback, and succession in ways that reduce harm and increase clarity.
This work may not be a fit for those seeking quick fixes, performance polishing, or urgency-driven solutions. Our approach centers reflection, shared responsibility, and long-term sustainability.
Coaching Clients:
Some of the leaders I have coached were affiliated with the following organizations:
- California State Association of Counties (CSAC)
- GSK/Haleon
- LeaderSpring
- League of Conservation Voters
- RCF Connects Mobility Labs
- School District of Philadephia
- Large Family Foundation (South, U.S.)
- Mid-Sized Family Foundation (South, U.S.)
- Social Justice Partners Los Angeles (SJPLA)
- Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Building Organizations and Leadership Development (BOLD) Center
- Small Family Foundation (South, U.S.)
- The Equity Lab
I have been honored to advise the following organizations through my practice or as a capacity coach with the Leader’s Trust:
- The Afiyah Center
- AVOW
- Black Impact Houston
- BuildBlackHou
- SisterLove, Inc.
- Soulforce
- Texas Equal Access Fund (TEA Fund)
Board Service:
Here are some of the recent Boards and Steering Committees I’ve served on: