Lead with Confidence.
Navigate with Clarity.
Inspire Lasting Impact.
Sharpen your strategic edge and spark ripples of change with coaching, speaking, and training rooted in equity, clarity, and candor.
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If a disruption like reorgs, layoffs, or a promotion have blown up your workload, let’s Untangle Your Next Step in 60 minutes.
Is This You?
Values-Led Keystone Leaders
You’re an indispensable leader navigating the complexity of systemic friction in environments often not built for you. You want to courageously lead with clarity and care, bringing others with you
Strategic Organizational Sponsors
You invest in your Keystone Leaders because you recognize their critical impact. You’re seeking proven strategies to reduce leadership friction, retain top talent, and build teams rooted in trust and measurable results.
For Organizations
I partner with organizations and consulting firms on leadership, delivery, and talent retention.
You can view the 5-page Organizational Brief for the Befriending Dragons Leadership Navigation System here:
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The Leadership Navigation System
My core methodology for leaders navigating complexity and systemic friction. Whether through the Cohort Program or targeted Individual Deep Dives, the LNS provides a data-driven framework to diagnose friction, accelerate strategic influence, and drive measurable outcomes.
For individuals seeking personalized 1:1 support (self-funded or sponsored), engagements focus on applying the Navigation System to your unique challenges.
All engagements utilize proprietary tools like the System Map and Boundary Language Library to move beyond reactive survival.
Workshops, Keynotes, & Collabs
Expert-led sessions that provide immediate tactical value. Bring me in when your organization needs to: diagnose Leadership Friction, mitigate burnout, and build psychological safety across critical teams.
Whether you’re hosting a keynote, retreat, ERG gathering, or all-hands session, I design each experience to meet the real moment you’re in—with courage, clarity, and candor.
Bring me in when your team is ready to:
- Lead with more clarity and confidence
- Navigate change, burnout, or uncertainty
- Address gendered and racialized dynamics
- Build psychological safety and trust
- Reconnect to purpose, values, and team culture
From keynotes to multi-month partnerships, your team will leave with tools to lead more honestly—and more sustainably.
Leadership Office Hours
Strategic Advising: Real-time, confidential space for high-stakes leaders to troubleshoot urgent systemic or political friction with an external expert.
Offer your team something rare:
real-time, judgment-free coaching space with an experienced leadership clarity coach. These are not lectures or canned trainings — they’re open-door sessions where individuals can explore questions, decisions, and moments of friction with guidance rooted in clarity, identity, and equity.
Available as a fractional retainer or standalone engagement.
Let’s Start the Ripples
This isn’t one-size-fits-all training offered months after you needed it. It’s real-time support for the hard challenges you’re navigating – whether you’re leading a team, holding power, or trying to stay true to yourself in systems that weren’t built for you.
If you’re ready to step into clarity, alignment, and confidence in who you are and how you lead, let’s talk.
If you’re not sure what fits, book a call and I’ll route you to the right starting point.
“Because of her services, I am a more intentional, curious, and confident person—and her impact in my life has been extraordinary.” – dr. sarahlloyd, PhD, Principal Disruptor at Soul on Fire
Working in the Spirit of Gadugi: Leading Together for Change
My leadership solutions are grounded in Gadugi, the Cherokee tradition of coming together as one to work toward a shared purpose.