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 runs twice per year with a cohort of no more than 15 women. We cover all six areas above in depth, with bi-weekly calls, guest speakers, a private community, and resources you keep forever.
Private 1:1 coaching is available for clients who want a fully customized engagement.
Testimonial
"I walked in with a postdoc salary and walked out with a negotiated industry offer $22,000 above the initial number. Dr. Godfrey didn't just coach me — she gave me the exact words to use and made me practice them until I believed them."
— Program participant — name withheld for privacy
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