Coaching for Black Women Scientists

"Where your credentials finally meet a strategy worthy of them."

Less Permission-Seeking. More Strategy.

Most coaching programs teach you to feel better about where you are. Mine teaches you how to get somewhere different.

I work with Black women scientists who are not stuck because they lack talent, credentials, or drive. They are stuck because they were trained in systems that reward patience and penalize self-advocacy — and then told to compete in a market that rewards neither.

My coaching is built on a simple belief: you already have everything you need. What you're missing is a map, a mirror, and someone who has navigated this terrain before and will tell you the truth about what they found.

Six Areas of Focus

Career Strategy

We build a written 3-year roadmap with real milestones — not a vision board, a plan. We identify where you are, where you want to be, and the specific steps between them.

Salary & Rate Negotiation

We cover benchmarking, scripting, and practice. My clients negotiate increases averaging $10,000–$20,000 on their next offer. Most of them had never negotiated before we started.

Personal Brand & LinkedIn

We build your visible professional presence beyond your institution. Your publications and grants matter — and so does how you're seen by the people who can change your trajectory.

Leadership & Executive Presence

We work on how you show up in rooms that weren't designed for you — managing up, setting boundaries, and communicating your value in the language those rooms speak.

Network Building

We build your personal board of directors and your strategic network — the relationships that open doors before you need them opened.

Career Architecture

Whether you're staying in academia, moving to industry, building a consulting practice, or something else entirely — we design the structure that gets you there with intention.

My Ideal Clients

Postdocs

Ready to stop waiting for the next position to find themselves worthy.

Scientists

In Industry 1-5 years, who know they're underpaid and under-leveled. 

Founders

STEM entrepreneurs building something — and needing strategy to match

The Decrypted PhD Promoter

6 months. Small cohort. Measurable transformation.

"My flagship group coaching program caps at 8 women to start, up to 12 for future cohorts. We cover all six areas above in depth, with twice-monthly group calls (up to four hours each), two guest speaker sessions with women who've navigated this in academia and industry, three private 1:1 sessions with an independent coach, and resources you keep forever. The founding cohort opens January 2027.

Private 1:1 coaching is available for clients who want a fully customized engagement.

 

The Promoter Testimonial

"This is the founding cohort — the first group of women to go through the Decrypted PhD Promoter together. There's no group track record yet, and I'd rather tell you that plainly than invent one. What I can tell you: this program is built from the same coaching that has already helped clients negotiate raises, leave stalled postdocs, and stop waiting for permission.