“I work with organizations committed to changing toxic systems, policies, and practices so that Black folx can thrive. If you want to be an organization that lives into its values, I can help you get clear on your roadblocks so you can do work that does not cause harm.”
When I’m in my role as a leadership coach, I create a container for you to tap into your own wisdom to know which steps to take. When I’m a leadership advisor, I am looking at ways to strengthen the leadership of an organization – internally and externally. When I’m advising leaders, I’m sharing my thoughts and expertise based on my 25 years of work.
Who I serve:
Philanthropy
- Advising small family and private foundations working to align their grantmaking to their equity and/or justice frameworks (especially racial, gender, and economic)
- Advising foundations and funder collaboratives seeking to collaborate with BIPOC-led nonprofits in the South
Nonprofits (including fiscally sponsored projects)
- Individual or team coaching for Black women, other women of color, and GNC folx of color in leadership
- Affinity group facilitation for Black women and other women of color
- Team coaching for organizations with people of diverse cultures and experiences in leadership
Corporations
- Strategic visioning with ERG/CSR/DEI teams seeing to engage more deeply with local communities of color
- Individual and group coaching for Black women, other women of color, and GNC folx of color in leadership
- Affinity group facilitation for Black women and other women of color
Consultants
- I provide strategic advising for consultants looking to have more impact in their work. Unlike consulting services, I don’t ‘do the work’ for you. Instead, I gather information, talk to key stakeholders (i.e staff, board, partners), and help develop a strategy to get you from where you are to where you want to be. You take what you learn with me and then go implement it.
Please note: DEI training and assessments, strategic planning, and fundraising plans are not services I provide. Any organization I partner with must have established a clear equity framework that they are actively implementing. I do not look for perfection but will ask about progress.
Reasons you should hire me to be your advisor:
- I am trustworthy
- I can see the forest and the trees
- I have 15+ years experience supervising women of color
- I have 20+ years working with nonprofits
- I have 10+ years working with philanthropy
Coaching vs. Advising
The difference between coaching (client holds the wisdom) and advising (advisor holds the wisdom) is pretty clear. However, the strategic advising and consulting differences can be hard to suss out.
What’s the difference between a strategic leadership advisor and a leadership consultant?
- A leadership consultant gets much more in the weeds of creating a plan for how you leading
- A strategic leadership advisor is more of a pop in, pop out support system
- A leadership consultant may often write long reports, implement surveys, or conduct focus groups.
- A strategic leadership advisor, if providing written communication, uses more of a memo or summary document style
- A leadership consultant’s work is project specific
- A strategic leadership advisor supports leaders to achieve strategic goals by sharing their subject-matter expertise
- A leadership consultant works one to many
- A strategic leadership advisor works one to one or one to a few
As a strategic leadership advisor you may hire me to:
- Be your personal advisor to talk through leadership and management challenges
- Advise you on how your organization models leadership as partners with local communities of color
- Advise your HR/People & Culture leadership on building impactful professional development opportunities for Black women and other women of color
- Advise you on how to more effectively prep and lead board meetings and/or the pre-meeting with your board chair
- Advise you on how to become a leader re: more equitable grantmaking processes
- Advise you on leadership development for women of color
Brain picker – 90min advising sessions $500
Retainer – 4hrs a month subscription – $2,000
VIP Day – 7 hours on site – $5,000 + travel
