Three people in a business meeting, two women and a man, sitting on gray armchairs, engaged in a discussion. A bottle of water and a notebook are on the table in front of them.

Intellevate™

is a leadership development framework that transforms emotional awareness into intentional action. It helps leaders recognize their emotional patterns, regulate their responses, and lead with clarity, even under pressure.

This isn’t soft-skill fluff.

This is the internal edge that separates regular managers from high impact leaders.

The Intellevate™ model was born from the lived experiences behind the soon to be released book titled How Dare She? This story takes the painful truths of emotionally unintelligent leadership and transforms them into a teachable, actionable system that creates trust, clarity, and impact.

I’ve worked with organizations where highly skilled teams fell apart—not because of a lack of talent, but because of poor leadership.

I watched great people walk out the door because no one knew how to manage conflict.
Micromanagers eroded trust.
Executives led with ego.
Mentorship was confused with control and condescension.

I know, because I’ve lived it.

I was once told I lacked emotional intelligence. At the time, I didn’t have the language to respond. So instead of defending myself, I got curious.

I started studying what real emotional intelligence actually looked like.
And what I discovered was eye-opening.

Most people think emotional intelligence means being nice, quiet, emotionless, or never pushing back.
But it’s not about stifling emotion or avoiding conflict.

It’s about regulating your response, leading with intention, and creating the emotional clarity others want to follow.

Here’s the irony:
Leaders who lack emotional intelligence usually believe they have it because they lack the very self-awareness that defines what it means to have emotional intelligence.
And they often accuse others of being “too emotional” or emotionally immature when what they’re actually seeing… is presence, passion, or pushback.

It’s a vicious cycle.

Low-EQ leaders create low-trust environments.
Low-trust environments drive high-performers away.
And when those top people leave, those same leaders say:
"They just weren’t the right fit."
Instead of asking, "Why do we keep losing our best?"

That’s why I created Intellevate™.
To help leaders break that cycle—by aligning emotional awareness with intentional action.

So they can lead with clarity.
So their people can trust them.
And so they can stop being the reason their best employees quit.