In my experience working with women of color leaders, and my own experience as a woman of color senior leader, I found recurring patterns in how we navigate power and toxicity which are detrimental to our job security and advancement.

Women and women of color leaders bring unique leadership models and styles to their organizations, and often receive inadequate support for their vision and work. In many cases, following traditional leadership guidance can actually harm us.

Women of color leaders are subjected to unique challenges every day, including but not limited to:

• nitpicking and micromanagement
• unrealistic workloads
• aggressions and microaggressions
• scapegoating and sabotage
• being pushed out and forced to exit

Considering the mounting research on observed patterns of behavior women of color leaders face in their workplaces, (McKinsey Report on Intersectional Experiences), we need to redirect our leadership development. 

Organizational leaders and Boards are often unable, unequipped, and uninterested in equitable support for women of color leaders. We need to empower ourselves. We can leverage traditional leadership competencies in a new way so we can make impact and feel centered and balanced while we are doing it. 

I built the Equilibrium Framework to address patterns of behavior that accelerate our depletion and demise, and replace them with the rock-solid leadership foundation women of color need to survive and thrive as leaders in today's corporate, non-profit, and academic spaces.

The framework identifies competencies that we are already familiar with, but commonly underleverage. When optimally leveraged, the use of these competencies can successfully protect and advance our positioning.

I use this framework and other tools to assist women of color leaders in securing their current positioning, and/or position themselves for advancement, inside or outside of their current organizations.

We'll identify and move past obstacles which typically hold back women and women of color, and leverage skills such as negotiation, managing down/up, and setting boundaries so can act strategically and achieve our goals, for our organizations, AND ourselves.

To find out more, book a consultation.