The Founder
Rhonda Gipson-Willis
Founder and Lead Facilitator, MSW, Certified Leadership Coach
Rhonda is a corporate trainer, keynote speaker and certified leadership coach.
She brings almost fifteen years of director level leadership experience together
with clinical training, and uses both to help teams and leaders do their real
work, transparently. Participants leave with skills, education, inspiration, and
change that lasts after the engagement ends.
Her approach is strength based and direct. She will name what she sees,
including when it is uncomfortable, because teams do not change based on
findings nobody was willing to say out loud. The goal of every engagement is a
team that can hold these conversations without her in the room.
This is not therapy, and it is not a room full of feelings and group hugs.
Sessions are built around specific, teachable capabilities: communicating under
pressure, delegating without abandoning, holding people accountable without
damaging the relationship, and making decisions when the information is
incomplete. People practice those skills in the room and apply them at work
that week.
The clinical training is what makes the diagnosis sharper. It changes the
opening question from what skill is missing to what is actually driving this
behavior, which is why the intervention tends to match the cause. That approach
has held across more than 30 organizations, from grassroots nonprofits with
$1 million budgets to Fortune 500 manufacturers exceeding $2 billion in annual
revenue, in education, healthcare, child services, economic development, and
industry.
- Master of Social Work, former licensed therapist
- Certified Leadership Coach
- Almost fifteen years in director level leadership roles across corporate
training and nonprofit sectors
- 30 or more client organizations across six sectors
