A private accelerator for women of color leading complex change.
For Directors–VPs in technical and transformation roles who want promotion-level visibility without sacrificing identity or sanity.
Is This You?
You're leading the work—but not always getting the mic
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Senior leaders trust you to clean up complex, messy initiatives, but your title and compensation haven't caught up. - You find yourself code-switching, editing your tone, or softening the truth so you don't get labeled "difficult" or "not a team player."
- You're already shaping strategy and influence without the formal power, budget, or microphone that matches your impact.
- You know you're a critical node in the transformation—but you're tired of having tooverperform just to be seen as credible.
If this sounds like your lived reality, the Transformation Lab exists so you don't have to navigate it alone. It's a dedicated space for women of color who are already holding the weight of enterprise-level change to get strategy, language, and community that actually reflect the rooms you move in every day.
What the Lab Is
A cohort built for WOC at the top of the house
The Transformation Lab is a high-touch cohort for women of color who are already sitting near, at, or just below the C-suite—quietly powering the transformations everyone else puts on slides. It combines executive-level coaching, peer council, and practical playbooks so you can move with clarity, influence, and protection in rooms that weren't built with you in mind.
It's for senior leaders and senior-track leaders driving complex, cross-functional work— digital transformation, customer experience, growth strategy, operations, data, and change portfolios—across industries. You bring the real cases: high-stakes initiatives, tricky politics, under-the-radar sponsorship, and we work them in real time with people who understand the nuances of race, gender, and power.
This is not a generic leadership program, a feel-good retreat, or surface-level DEI. It is not about fixing you. It's about giving you the strategy, language, and community to navigate and reshape systems that were not designed for you to thrive.
See if You’re a fit
Program Structure
Structure that fits the reality of senior leaders
A multi-month container (typically 3–9 months) designed to match the rhythm of real
transformation work—not a one-off workshop you forget by Monday.
Monthly live cohort sessions, focused implementation labs, and optional office hours you can plug into around board meetings, quarterly closes, and launches.
Peer council for real-time problem-solving, 1:1 executive coaching, sponsor and stakeholder strategy, visibility labs for owning the mic, and practical scripts and playbooks you can use the same week.
Every piece of the structure is built around how senior leaders actually work—long arcs, competing demands, and the need to apply insight quickly without burning out.
Outcomes You Can Expect
By the end of the Lab, you will…
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Have a clear, enterprise-level narrative for your work that ties directly to
revenue, risk, and strategic priorities—and positions you for your next role. - Be more visible to decision makers, with a concrete sponsor and stakeholder map and scripts for high-stakes conversations about scope, title, and compensation.
- Navigate politics with more confidence and less self-doubt, with language to name what's happening in the room without gaslighting yourself.
- Translate complex transformation work into executive-ready messages that land with your CEO, board, and cross-functional partners.
- Leave with a community of peers who can see patterns, validate your experience, and help you move faster on decisions.
Mini Stories
Director of Customer Experience at a Fortune
500 → promoted to VP in 9 months while leading a multi- market digital transformation and renegotiating scope and resources.
Senior Engineering Manager in a global tech org → expanded to Head of Platform Transformation, gained formal P&L ownership, and secured executive sponsorship for her succession plan.
Community & Safety
You don't have to carry this alone
Inside the Lab, you don't have to translate your experience. You're in a confidential room where being a woman of color at the center of transformation is assumed, not explained, and where shared language around race, power, and identity is part of the design—not an afterthought.
We anchor in clear norms around confidentiality, psychological safety, and consent so you can bring the real stories, politics, and stakes you can't unpack anywhere else. Community doesn't end with the last session: you'll have access to an alumni circle and ongoing touchpoints so you can continue to tap the network as you move into bigger roles and bolder moves.
"The Lab gave me language, strategy, and a squad. I walked back into the same rooms, but I was no longer carrying them by myself."
Lab Participant
"This was the first space where I didn't have to downplay my ambition or my experience as a Black woman leader. I felt seen, safe, and pushed—in the best way."
Lab Participant
Investment & Sponsorship
An investment your company can
(and should) sponsor.
The Lab is a premium, executive-level development experience—priced in line with what organizations already invest in leadership programs and coaching for their most critical talent. It's designed to be funded by your company as part of their obligation to support the leaders actually moving transformation forward.
- Leadership development or executive education budgets.
- Talent, or succession-planning funds earmarked for high-potential leaders of color.
- Direct sponsorship from a current leader, executive sponsor, or HR business partner.
- Reallocating conference, training, or coaching dollars into one focused, high-impact experience.
Eligibility
Who thrives in the Lab
Senior manager, director, head-of, VP, or equivalent
Works in transformation-heavy environments
Owns strategic or technical work
Identifies as a woman of color
Growth mindset
Note*: The Lab is not a fit if you are in your first few years of the career, have no exposure to enterprise-level transformation, or are looking primarily for introductory leadership skills rather than senior-level strategy and navigation.
If you're carrying transformation and identity, this room is for you
You are not "too much" for the rooms you're in—you just haven't always been in rooms built with you in mind.