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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others” - Mahatma Gandhi
If you’re tired of trading your well-being for impact, you’re in the right place. The Empowered Leader is a platform for marginalized leaders (Director through C-suite) who are ready to reclaim authority, amplify influence, and create lasting systemic change, without burning out. Here, you’ll find strategic frameworks, honest conversations about power and bias, and a community committed to leadership that elevates individuals and transforms systems.
Who This Is For
This platform is for leaders who are already proven, but no longer willing to pay the hidden cost of success. Specifically:
• High-achieving women, BIPOC leaders, first-generation professionals, and “onlys” who are excellent on paper but exhausted in practice
• Leaders trusted to deliver results but routinely overlooked, underestimated, or expected to absorb dysfunction quietly
• Change-minded executives who want advancement without self-erasure, and impact beyond individual wins
• Strategically minded leaders who understand that personal growth without systemic change is incomplete
This is not for people looking for inspiration without accountability, visibility without responsibility, or success that leaves broken systems intact. It’s for those ready to lead with internal freedom, visible authority, and the courage to change what no longer works, for themselves and those who come next.
Philosophy: Liberation - Visibility - Transformation
My work is grounded in three core pillars that move you from internal freedom to strategic impact:
Liberation: Reclaim authority over your time, energy, and identity so your leadership is no longer powered by fear or outdated survival strategies.
Visibility: Translate your expertise into influence, advancement, and decision-making power through strategic positioning and negotiation.
Transformation: Turn personal breakthroughs into cultural shifts by changing how teams operate, how power flows, and how success is defined.
Collectively, these pillars represent Empowered Leadership, a movement where leaders are no longer hidden by bias and no longer content with personal success that leaves broken systems intact.
Why Work With Me
Generic leadership development fails leaders navigating power, bias, and consequence simultaneously. I help leaders lead with authority, visibility, and impact, without sacrificing themselves in the process.
As a Certified Executive Leadership Coach, Systemic Team Coach, and I/O Psychologist with years as a retired Army civilian, I bring strategic rigor and lived understanding to leaders operating at the senior level.
This work explicitly addresses power, race, gender, and systemic dynamics as core leadership variables, not side conversations. I combine inner liberation with external leverage, ensuring insight translates into measurable outcomes: faster decisions, expanded authority, and norms that outlast individual tenure.
What makes this different:
• Names what others avoid: Addresses power, bias, and structure directly—no gaslighting leaders into thinking the problem is confidence when the issue is systemic.
• Delivers compounding results: Clients don’t just feel aligned; they make faster decisions, gain recognition, expand authority, sponsor others, and shift organizational norms.
• Builds leaders who change conditions: The return isn’t individual success alone, it’s fewer barriers for those who come next.
Results
Leaders who work with me lead differently in ways that produce visible returns:
Individual Impact: Faster, higher-quality decisions; expanded authority and scope; career advancement (promotions, compensation growth, decision-making access); reduced burnout through sustainable operating rhythms.
Organizational Impact: Improved retention of high-performing marginalized leaders; stronger leadership bench through active sponsorship; clearer execution; culture and process improvements that reduce friction.
Systemic Impact: Policies and norms changed, not just discussed; power redistributed through coalition-building; reduced dependency on constant DEI intervention.
Clients report doing less work while creating more impact. My work delivers internal authority, visible influence, and measurable system change—resulting in stronger leaders, better decisions, and organizations that retain and elevate their best talent.
Where to Start
Ready to move from exhaustion to empowered leadership? Here’s how:
• Subscribe to receive strategic insights, frameworks, and honest conversations delivered to your inbox
• Explore key essays on liberation, visibility, and transformation to see if this resonates
• Work with me 1:1 through executive leadership coaching designed for senior leaders navigating bias and consequence
• Inquire about organizational work for teams and leadership development programs
Your leadership doesn’t have to cost you everything. Let’s build something better.