My Story
Welcome, I am a certified leadership coach, attorney, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging strategist. I started TLC to support leaders of color and our mission is to support the next generation of leaders and institution builders. TLC provides 1:1 coaching, organizational development consulting, learning and member communities to support that mission. At TLC we see you and we believe that everyone is a leader and all experience is valuable.
My Career
My journey to entrepreneur and consultant began during the two decades I practiced law in non-profit legal services in NYC. During my career journey, I often felt like an outsider in my workplaces and in the legal system, as a black woman and single mother. As I gained experience, I learned, through leading teams and supporting organizational growth, how
to use my, voice, experiences and intersectional identities in my career.
I am deeply inspired by the individuals
and leaders I coach and the organizations seeking new pathways to a transformed future.
My Skills
and Training
With my varied skills and training, I am able to support and coach leaders in program support and development, operations, human resources, labor-management relations, strategic planning, organizational development and compliance and DEIB competencies. I have served as in-house non-profit general counsel, led organizational transformation, diversity and anti-bias initiatives, and supported leadership development within unionized and non-unionized workforces. My passion lies in supporting equity-driven leadership development to shape and grow organizations that uphold anti-racism, value diversity, and support leadership at all levels. As a lifelong learner, I have honed my skills and trained at Clark University, the University of California at Berkeley, the City University of New York School of Law, the Coaching for Transformation Program, Leadership That Works and Cornell University Certificate in Diversity and Inclusion.
My Leadership Journey
When I started law school, I had a 2-year-old I was raising alone. When I entered the field after graduation in 2005, I was not welcomed into every legal environment. I applied for a job in the NY state court system and the office called to schedule an interview. When they heard my young daughter’s voice on the voicemail and thinking they had hung up, the caller made discriminatory comments indicating they weren’t even willing to interview me because they now knew I was a mother. Throughout my career, I fought against internalizing the message that I was not good enough to be here by pushing for greater inclusion in our workplace and as an emerging leader I sought to upend the way I led my teams to create new ways of working collaboratively and uplifting the emerging leaders in my teams. As a seasoned professional, I now coach organizational leaders to check their bias and build equitable institutions and I coach individuals on how to be the change-makers of tomorrow while living authentic, purpose-filled lives. Everyone is a leader, everyone has experience that matters.