Signature Keynotes & Trainings

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Rooted & Rising

Cultural Legacy as a Blueprint for Leadership

Description:

This signature experience centers cultural leadership clarity by exploring how heritage, language, and identity inform our power. Drawing from Gullah Geechee traditions and dialect justice, it blends personal reflection, strategic development, and ancestral wisdom into a leadership model rooted in legacy and designed for impact.

Participants Will Learn:

  • How to align their leadership style with ancestral values

  • The power of dialect and linguistic identity in leadership spaces

  • How to move from cultural awareness to cultural activation

  • A practical framework to lead from a “rooted” center

All sessions end with an invitation to join the Empowered Leader Incubator or LeadHERitage Co. newsletter for continued support and tools.

Keynotes & Workshops

Rooted in Rhythm: Leading from the Language of Our People

Audience: Educators, linguists, speech professionals, and administrators
Objective: Reframe nonmainstream dialects as sources of leadership brilliance
What You WillLearn:

  • Sociolinguistic insights into Gullah Geechee & African American English

  • Strategies to validate and support linguistic identity in learning spaces

  • How to empower student and professional voice through language inclusion

The Matriarch Code: Lessons from Grandmama's Table

Audience: Mid-career Black women professionals, and cultural influencers
Objective: Harness ancestral matriarchal leadership as a framework
What You Will Learn:

  • Legacy-building leadership styles based on cultural memory

  • How to navigate systemic spaces without cultural erasure

  • Rituals, language, and story as tools of resilience and clarity

Sweetgrass Strategies: Weaving Heritage into Leadership

Audience: The Empowered Leader Incubator participants and personal development seekers
Objective: Create a personal leadership strategy rooted in cultural values
What You Will Learn:

  • 4-part framework: Resilience, Ritual, Responsibility, Reach

  • How to use tradition to innovate and lead

  • Personal blueprint development + guided journaling prompts

Bin Ya, Come Ya: Reclaiming Place and Power

Audience: Emerging leaders, university students, and cultural educators
Objective: Ground leadership identity in belonging, not assimilation
What You Will Learn:

  • The difference between geographic and cultural citizenship

  • How to lead from a place of inclusion and rootedness

  • Practices to build inclusive community among diverse cultural entry points

Leadership Ain’t Standardized: Dismantling the Myth of the ‘Right Way

Audience: School districts, higher ed professionals, and administrators
Objective: Challenge standardization in education and leadership models
What You Will Learn:

  • How colonized metrics fail cultural leaders

  • Tools for culturally sustaining leadership and evaluation

  • Case studies rooted in your dialect & Gullah Geechee research

Cultural Compass: Finding Your North Through Heritage

Audience: All levels – powerful closer or conference keynote
Objective: Help participants define and articulate their cultural leadership identity
What You Will Learn:

  • A new definition of leadership centered on heritage and justice

  • How to identify their personal “cultural compass”

  • Actionable next steps for leading in and beyond their communities

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