From a virtual speaking engagement for a global organization last night from my office/studio. I accidentally hit record and giffed myself. 🤣 Guess what? I quit trying. 😂 I thought of a statement that I’ve been sharing with clients this past month: “Know what is worth your energy.” It occurred to me that five years into my coaching practice and eight years into speaking nonstop for all sorts…
Meet me for the Executive Leadership Council’s (@elcinfo) Mid-Level Management Symposium, Oct 4-5 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, MD. I’ll be hosting an engaging session on The Power of Positive Emotion to Propel You to Better Leadership. It’s a cornerstone message that centers my latest book, Yes Please! 7 Ways to Say I’m Entitled to the C-Suite, a leadership and coaching guide…
Although I spend the lion share of my time supporting extraordinary women leaders , from time to time, organizations ask me the inevitable: How should we be approaching DE&I now? And so I speak from the perspective, insights and voice of women and other marginalized groups and the allies who champion them because that is whom I’m listening to day after day—whether in coaching sessions, on the…
I’m so incredibly thrilled to be speaking to young artists about knowing their value and putting that into action as they begin their careers at the Denyce Graves Foundation’s Shared Voices launch at Washington DC . I’ll also be signing copies of my book No Thanks: 7 Ways to Say I’ll Just Include Myself. Shared Voices is a Conservatory & Consortium, and the launch event will be…
About a year ago, I hosted an extremely special guest on my show, The Culture Soup Podcast®. I like to call her “Our Carmen” but everyone in their right mind claims this amazing beauty and talent. I’m talking about the incomparable, mezzo soprano Denyce Graves. At that time, she had extended an invitation to me that I accepted swiftly and without any real thought because… really? What else…
“The heroine in the book is knowing your value.” I have lost count of the many times that I’ve uttered those words since 2020 when I released the first edition of No Thanks: 7 Ways to Say I’ll Just Include Myself. Soon, I’ll be sharing this in person with the leaders at Denny’s. By the way: “The villain in the book is fear.” We’ll unravel the important…
You don’t realize that you’ve been at a thing for a while until you see that your tools need refreshing. Thank you so much to those organizations who have invited me to speak over the last seven years…that‘s right, SEVEN. And to think it all started on a stage in Hollywood, Florida at the Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit in 2015. Thank you, Jennifer Jones for believing…