Life is too short
The Own Your Brilliance Weekend Retreat is an intimate and immersive experience to help young professional Black women conjure the courage to show up, step up and speak up at work — without apprehension or apology.
Next retreat : July 20-21, 2024 – Atlanta, GA
Own Your Brilliance Snapshot
Hey girl,
I see you over there with your head slumped in your hand, feeling exhausted… from trying to do it all at work.
You’ve been offering ideas to grow your organization while trying not to come across as too aggressive, volunteering for every client project to prove you are worthy of a seat at the table and tiptoeing on eggshells to offer feedback because the last thing you want to do is step on anyone’s toes. You’ve tried to navigate the workplace and accelerate your career using a traditional playbook — one that tells you to put in extra hours, drive toward perfection, be agreeable and wait your turn.
But, that approach has left you emotionally drained and stalled out. You spend more time and energy censoring and hiding yourself than demonstrating your brilliance, and it’s impacting your performance and satisfaction. You may call it playing safe. But, we call it playing small. And, that’s one thing you’re not.
It’s time to take up space, and not just the physical space your cute little feet occupy. You deserve to conjure your courage to fill up the room and the world with your promise and power.
You deserve to
Own Your Brilliance.
This one-of-a-kind experience was created specifically for emerging, Black female leaders who crave the freedom to speak up, stand out and stay true to themselves at work.
It is for self-empowerment seeking, young professionals in early to mid-career positions who are eager to build up their internal resources to bring their unique ideas, perspectives and selves to the table — without apology or apprehension. They’ll be immersed in a framework that teaches them how to develop and activate personal courage so that they can take action to be visible, vocal and valued in the workplace.
This hands-on, two-day retreat is for those who are ready to receive feedback, support and guidance in a psychologically-safe environment with other young women of color who are doing the work to bust limiting beliefs, understand the inner workings of fear and courage, and create courageous plans of action to show up (and show out) in professional spaces. They’ll be surrounded by experts, including Candace, who will help them every step of the way to ensure they leave with everything they came for.
Does your organization have a professional
development budget? Download a letter to send to
your manager to request approval for the retreat.
What’s in it for you:
- Complete a DiSC assessment to help you understand your work style, including your goals, fears and how you influence others.
- Get equipped with a toolbox of resources, templates and guides that help build your confidence and competence to have hard conversations, including those with colleagues about belonging at work.
- Enjoy group meals while you connect, collaborate and learn from other Black women.
- Learn and leverage our process for managing fear, activating personal courage, and taking risks so that you can spend less time and energy censoring or hiding yourself and more time demonstrating your brilliance.
- Cultivate the power that’s already within you in a safe, protective, five-star environment of like-minded, young professional, Black women.
- Nail down your 60-day plan of courageous action that elevates you from playing small to taking up space in the workplace.
- Level-up your ability to identify, unpack and conquer the limiting beliefs that contribute to inaction and overwhelm in your career.
- Discover how to evaluate when it’s time to move on from a job that doesn’t allow you to take up space.
Investing in yourself can be hard …
and sometimes feel risky, but on the other side of this retreat, attendees have new levels of clarity about their value, more confidence to communicate their ideas and needs, and a comprehensive plan for how to move forward with courage at work.
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Meet Candace, the Courage Coach
Hi, I’m Candace — a courage coach, professional speaker, former marketing strategist and perfectionist-in-recovery.
I’m also the creator of the Own Your Brilliance Weekend Retreat. For 16 years, prior to starting my business, I worked in marketing for global brands within the food service industry. And, for most of my career, I was the only Black person on the team and in the room.
I know what it’s like to be called articulate under the guise of a compliment, passed over for promotions because you come across as intimidating, questioned about your judgment, talked over in meetings, and petted for having “curious” natural hair. As a woman of color in the workplace, I was repeatedly subjected to antics that prompted me to play small in order to keep external peace.
But inside, I felt like I was swallowing a piece of myself when I didn’t dare to show up, step up and speak up. I had a choice: hide myself or side with myself.
Once I conjured my own courage to represent myself in a way that felt honest and true to me, I began to teach my team of emerging leaders how to develop and activate their own courage to navigate professional spaces from a place of authenticity. Courage allowed them to stand up for ideas amid opposition, to give and receive feedback in support of growth, and to be true to themselves when doing so was unconventional.
I’ve taken what I’ve researched and experienced about courage over the past decade to help thousands of emerging leaders conjure theirs.
Now, there’s no better time to use what I’ve learned to specifically help young professional Black women courageously take up space at work.
