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IF YOU ARE DONE PLAYING SMALL

Stop Being The Best Kept Secret®

You are doing everything right: the degrees, the hours, the results. And you are still watching the doors open for somebody else. I know why. For 30 years, I was the one in the room deciding.

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12 questions · about 3 minutes · free

“Comfort is the Enemy of Success and Prosperity”
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WHY I BUILT THIS

For 30 years, I sat on the other side of the table.

The best person in the room does not always win. The person they can NAME wins.

I was in the room when they decided who got hired. Who got promoted. Whose name came up for the big assignment...and whose didn't.

 

I watched brilliant people get passed over. Not because they weren't good enough, but because when the decision got made, nobody in that room could say what they were great at. Nobody spoke up. Nobody knew.

 

That is what being the best kept secret costs you, and it is the most expensive thing you will ever be.

 

Argh!! I know...because I was one, too.

 

I built this so you never have to figure out on your own what took me thirty years to learn.

HOW I WORK WITH YOU

Six Core Pillars.

Most people come to me needing one or two of these, not the whole journey. I am showing you the whole map so you can find yourself on it, and so you know that wherever you are standing, I have stood there myself.

01

Own Your Power

Authority does not wait for a title. I will show you how to be credible in a room you were not obviously invited into.

02

Own Your Truth

If you don't say it, they can't remember it. We find what you actually stand for and get it out of your head.

03

Own Your Healing

You did not walk into your first job empty-handed. You cannot build on a foundation you never repaired.

04

Own Your Worth

You, in the room, asking. Out loud. Know your number, then add tax.

05

Own Your Destiny

Stop building somebody else's plan. We design your next chapter on purpose.

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Own Your Advocacy

Somebody is saying your name in a room you are not in. Let's make sure they get it right.

A mentor talks to you. A sponsor talks about you.

One is a coffee. The other is a career.

FREE · 3 MINUTES

Where are you right now?

This is not a personality test. It is a context test. It will not tell you who you are. It will tell you where you are right now, which is the part most people get wrong about themselves.

01

Twelve questions. Answer fast, because your first instinct is the honest one.

02

One question that is not multiple choice. It is the one that matters.

03

I show you what is already working, the season you are in, and one thing to do this week.

WHO I WORK WITH

Two people. Same disease, different stage.

You are early, and you are going somewhere.

“I'm doing everything right. So why does it feel like nothing is moving?”

You are sharp, you are credentialed, and you have been promoted so far on being genuinely good at the work. You don't want to be rich. You want to fix something, in your country and on your continent, and you are dead serious about it. You do not need me to tell you that you are capable. You need me to tell you how the room works.

You are senior, and you are still not heard.

“I've done everything they asked. I'm still not in the room where it happens.”

You are the one they call when it is broken. Your value is completely obvious to the people below you and somehow invisible to the people above you. You have been the reliable one so long that reliability became your ceiling, and you are tired in a way that sleep does not fix.

WHO I WORK WITH

I wrote all of this down, so you could start tonight.

My award-winning book carries the same five ideas I coach: Own Your Power, Truth, Healing, Worth and Destiny. If you are not ready to work with me yet, start here.It includes the first personal account Swati Mandela, granddaughter of Nelson and Winnie Mandela, has ever given, with a foreword by Dr. Lois Frankel.

“Her authentic and transparent story will undoubtedly help shape a larger vision for what is possible.”

Dr. Shelton Goode · Top 10 Forbes D&I Trailblazer

ABOUT ME

I am more than just a coach. I am your partner.

I have spent thirty years in human resources, which means thirty years of being the person who decided who got hired, promoted and sponsored. I do not guess how this works. I know.

 

I was born into the New York City foster care system. I went back to school at 36. I got the corner office, the six figures and the expense account, then I walked away from all of it because I had climbed a ladder I did not want to be on. I have lived every pillar on this page.

 

I will not leave you until our work together is done.

Forbes Next 1000

HuffPost Top Female Expert To Follow

CORE100/USA Today Most Influential Blacks

Women of Excellence Award

NYC Big Book Award 2022

What people say when they leave.

ATTENDEES SAID
“I am not going to be fearful of taking risks.”
“I now know limitations have no justice once I am FREE! Thank you!”
“Going forward, I am investing in myself.”
“I left my baggage at the workshop.”
“I am going to be self-FULL!”
“I'm ready to better myself in ways I wasn't even aware needed changing!”
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This is not just an event...this is a MOVEMENT!!

I built this masterclass to ELEVATE, EMPOWER and EQUIP you, and to put you in a room with people who are building the same thing you are. Come prepared to meet, greet, network, laugh, learn and leave different.

Stop Being the
Best Kept Secret®

“Changing the Lives of one Million Women...and the men who love and support us. On every continent I can reach.”

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