ABOUT CHARLAÉ

I’m a self-aware, empathetic, collaborative, and courageous leader. I’m a systems-based thinker and problem solver with a proven track record of bringing innovative solutions from concept to operational scale across organizational boundaries. I co-create psychologically safe cultures where my direct reports and extended team members feel empowered. I’m a big picture visionary with a discerning eye for detail. I’m committed to putting the user first, even when it’s not convenient. I play well with others, have a healthy disregard for the status quo, and am not afraid to roll up my sleeves and do the dirty work to make the magic happen. I don’t like cats, but I know how to herd them. I have a passion for solving interesting, complex challenges with positive social impact. This passion has resulted in rich expertise and consistent success across varied domains. I have experience successfully managing and influencing with/without authority, collaborating effectively across boundaries, supporting teams through change, and inspiring action to achieve a shared vision. Across nearly two decades of experience, I have been an individual contributor, a people manager, a coach, a consultant, and a trusted advisor to senior executive leaders. Through this breadth of experience, I’ve honed the leadership skills and flexibility that are critical to business success, while developing deep expertise in my practice areas. I’m an ICF-certified ACC professional coach and love supporting humans, teams, and organizations in becoming the best versions of themselves. I approach all of my work through an emotionally intelligent, culturally competent, and inclusive lens..

I’m a foodie, a proud Howard University graduate, and a native of Detroit, MI. For more on my professional background, please read more about my work and check out LinkedIn.

WORK STYLE INSIGHTS

What makes me effective and sets me apart, beyond my experience, is who I am. My values, my working style, my personality, my lens and worldview. These unique factors have enabled successful collaboration with my clients beyond core deliverables, resulting in partnerships that are fun, productive, complement and enhance my clients’ strengths, and flourish and bloom into long-term relationships. So you can get an idea of my working style, I’ve included some insights below. While these elements don’t define me or limit my capabilities, they’re a fun snapshot into aspects of my working style that can’t necessarily be captured in a resumé.

  • My core values inform everything I do and the way I show up in the world. These values influence my coaching and collaboration style.

    Authenticity: high self-awareness and advocating for/living our truth unconditionally. The quality of being true to who we are and establishing character-based trust and self-reliance based on that truth.

    Joy: levity and humor

    Intentionality: having clear purpose and mapping back to why we are doing something and what we hope to achieve

    Agency: the freedom, space, respect, and trust to act as a fully realized, independent human without being undermined

    Honesty: transparency, vulnerability, earnestness, openness, integrity, and accountability

  • CliftonStrengths is a professional assessment that identifies key strengths unique to each individual, and places them in context of professional impact. My top 5 strengths (click each strength to learn more):

    1. Strategic

    2. Individualization

    3. Empathy

    4. Relator

    5. Ideation

  • The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality assessment providing insights into how one processes the world.

    My type is INFJ. INFJ individuals tend to be insightful, principled, passionate, altruistic, deeply thoughtful, and creative.

  • The VIA Institute on Character is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing the science of character strengths to the world. Character strengths are the positive parts of your personality that make you feel authentic and engaged.

    My top 5 character strengths:

    1. Perspective (Wisdom): Being able to provide wise counsel to others; having ways of looking at the world that make sense to oneself/others.

    2. Leadership (Justice): Encouraging a group of which one is a member to get things done and at the same time maintain good relations within the group; organizing group activities and seeing that they happen.

    3. Creativity (Wisdom): Thinking of novel and productive ways to conceptualize and do things; includes artistic achievement but is not limited to it.

    4. Love of Learning (Wisdom): Mastering new skills, topics, and bodies of knowledge, whether on one's own or formally; related to the strength of curiosity but goes beyond it to describe the tendency to add systematically to what one knows.

    5. Bravery (Courage): Not shrinking from threat, challenge, difficulty, or pain; speaking up for what’s right even if there’s opposition; acting on convictions even if unpopular; includes physical bravery but is not limited to it.