I help senior executives and their organizations build cultures of rest, clarity, and sustainable leadership through coaching and consulting solutions that strengthen both individual wellbeing and organizational impact.
Strategic Leadership Coaching for Organizations and the Women Who Power Them
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.
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 intention 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.
Strategic Coach
Speaker
Sabbatical Guide
Rest with Intention
Honor your body and spirit with the deep rest you deserve. Create space to breathe, reflect, and release.
Remember Your Secret Sauce
Reconnect with your unique brilliance—the wisdom, creativity, and magic that’s always been within you.
Framework
Elandria has supported client to move to leadership clarity and confidence and through burnout prevention and work-life integration — within the framework of her signature 4Rhythm approach:
Recast a Vision of Your Self
Dream boldly. Shape a future that reflects your desires, not just your responsibilities.
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
Speaking Topics May Include:
Rest as a Leadership Strategy
Sabbatical Planning for Executive Leaders
Burnout Recovery for High-Performing Women
Leading at the Intersection of Revenue and Wellness
Creating Sustainable Leadership Pipelines for Women of Color
Supporting Black Women Leaders to Show Up Authentically
Joyful Living as a Leadership Practice
“Elandria really takes the time to get to know you and help expand your imagination and your belief in your potential.”
“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.”
Client Reflections
“Elandria is a perfect balance of expert advisor, connector, and cheerleader. She cares deeply about you as an individual.”
“The biggest shift as a result of coaching is a change in my mindset. I found joy in engaging with donors again.”
“Elandria is a ray of sunshine, is there for you and will ask you a ton of questions to get you to process.”
I’ve Been Where You Are and I Can Walk Alongside You
Leadership doesn’t have to cost you your well-being or your joy.
Let’s co-create a more sustainable way forward — one that centers your clarity, rest, and brilliance.