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Strategic Leadership Coaching for Organizations and the Women Whose Brilliance Fuels Them

I help organizations build cultures of creativity and innovation by equipping their leaders to sustain impact through rest, clarity, and joy.

The leadership seat comes with both influence and invisible weight.

Black women executives sit at the intersection of extraordinary responsibility and personal sacrifice — managing teams, delivering outcomes, and showing up for families and communities. Over time, the cost of carrying it all can lead even the most brilliant leaders to exhaustion, burnout, and disconnection from the joy that once fueled their work.

This work exists because I’ve lived it. What I offer today isn’t just strategy — it’s what I needed most: a trusted space to rest, reset, and rise.

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Strategic Coach

Speaker

Sabbatical Guide

Meet Elandria Jackson Charles

Founder & Chief Joy Officer

That chapter taught me something profound: Leadership and rest are not opposites. True leadership requires space — to breathe, to heal, to reconnect with the clarity burnout tries to steal.

Today, I coach and consult from that lived experience — supporting Black women leaders and their organizations through:

  • Customized Sabbatical Care

  • Joy-Infused Executive Coaching

  • Leadership Development Grounded in Wellness

You don’t have to choose between leading and being well. You can do both — with intentionality and support.

“I’ve almost crumbled under the weight, too.”

I know what it feels like to hold it all together — while privately suppressing the exhaustion that comes with high-stakes leadership. There were seasons when I was so focused on producing that I sacrificed everything, including precious time with my family.

In 2021, I hit my limit.

The world had paused, but my responsibilities hadn’t: Chief Development Officer. Wife. Mom to a two-year-old. All of us in a 1,100 sq. ft. Brooklyn apartment, in the thick of the pandemic and racial reckoning. I felt stuck, disconnected, and deeply weary.

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4Rhythm

Framework

Elandria has supported clients to move to leadership clarity and confidence and through burnout prevention and work-life integration — within the framework of her signature 4Rhythm approach:

rhythm 1

Rest with Intention

Honor your body and spirit with the deep rest you deserve. Create space to breathe, reflect, and release.

rhythm 2

Remember Your Secret Sauce

Reconnect with your unique brilliance—the wisdom, creativity, and magic that’s always been within you.

rhythm 3

Recast a Vision of Your Self

Dream boldly. Shape a future that reflects your desires, not just your responsibilities.

rhythm 4

Realize That Vision Through Joy

Bring your vision to life with intention, grace, and joy as your compass.

Speaking & Media

Book Elandria for Speaking, Workshops & Strategic Conversations

Elandria Jackson Charles is available for keynotes, leadership retreats, corporate trainings, conference panels, podcast interviews, and group sessions that explore how rest, clarity, and sustainable leadership can transform both individual wellbeing and organizational impact.

my expertise

  • 15+ years of experience in nonprofit leadership and revenue generation

  • Trusted advisor to senior leaders across the nonprofit and corporate sectors

  • Frequent speaker and podcast guest on topics of leadership, rest, and joy

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Speaking Topics May Include:

Rest and Joy as a Leadership Strategy

Sabbatical Planning for Executive Leaders

Burnout Recovery for High-Achieving Women

Leading at the Intersection of Revenue Generation and Wellness

Client Reflections

  • “The biggest shift as a result of coaching is more confidence and imagination. I launched my second business, restructured my first business and built in time for self-care.” 

    Business Owner & Operator

  • “Elandria is a perfect balance of expert advisor, connector, and cheerleader. She cares deeply about you as an individual.” 

    Co-founder & CEO

  • “The biggest shift as a result of coaching is a change in my mindset. I found joy in engaging with donors again.”

    CEO

  • “Elandria is a ray of sunshine, is there for you and will ask you a ton of questions to get you to process.”

    CEO

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