Module 1

Living Life by Design 

In this module you will create a vision for the dream life.

This is the beginning of having a dream life – being clear on what you want, without the barriers that you normally put in your way. YOU will become excited about the person you ‘want’ to be verses the person you ‘ought’ to be.

You will become so enthusiastic about your future becoming your reality -  this is the start of making it happen. You will work on what it takes to live a life by design, verses living your life by default.  And  start to practice four powerful ways you can be in life.  In this module you begin a daily life changing practice that you will continue throughout the program. 

Module Highlights:

• What it takes to live life by design and not default
• Dreaming Big
• Exercises on creating a dream life
• 4 Powerful ways to be in life
• Starting a life changing daily practice

Module 2

Keeping It Real 

Since you have just created a vision for your life, it's time to build confidence in making it happen.

You begin with the important step of assessing the gap and you start to become clear about how close or how far you are away from your dream life. In this module you also start the practice of loving kindness as you work on the art of prioritizing self as you work on your dream life. You are engaging in fun, creative, confidence-building practices and exercises that you will continue throughout the program. I want you to imagine - this is just module 2 - so where will you be in 10 weeks on practicing these empowering exercises?

Module Highlights:

• Identifying the gap - doing a life inventory 
• Practicing loving kindness
• Prioritizing self
• Confidence building
• Going beyond your comfort zone

Module 3

You’ve Got a Plan for That!

Now that you are clear about the gap between where you are now and your dream life, it's time to create that unique personalized plan to get there.

Yes, that’s right, you are going to plan out what you need to do to get closer to achieve your dream. You are learning a proven approach which leaves you inspired around your plan and gives you clarity. You continue to practice four ways to be powerful in life.  You are so excited about these practices and you notice the transformation you are going through. You will, by the end of Execute Your Dream, have developed skills and practices that feels ingrained like brushing your teeth. In addition you start to explore winning strategies at this stage in executing on your dream.

Module Highlights:

• Creating a unique plan
• Proven approach to inspiring planning
• 4 powerful ways to be in life
• Winning strategies
• You at your best

Module 4

Time to Act 

This is the part you've been waiting for when you move to implementation.

In this module, you will be introduced to the 'Achievement Arc' model giving you 5 distinct stages to achieving results. You will be guided and supported through all the spaces that occur as we get into action. When you know and understand that there is more to action - than taking action - you increase the possibility of being successful in what you are doing. You may have been here before, but this time you have a community that is supporting you all the way. You will understand your patterns that get in your way or stop you, so you can keep it moving. Patterns such as our good friend 'fear'. In this module you learn to transform your relationship to fear in a powerful way. And as a reminder throughout, you continue the confidence building practices that you started in Module 2, and the life changing daily practice that you began in Module 1.

Module Highlights:

• The 'Achievement Arc' - Taking action
• What are the spaces you go through when in action and how to be successful
• Exploring patterns that stop you achieving your outcome
• Shifting your relationship to fear
• Continuing the confidence building practices and exercises

Module 5

Nurturing Your Dreams by Nurturing Yourself 

You have been working so hard on creating your dream life, it's time  to take a breath and reflect on putting yourself first, second and third on your priority list .

What would life look life if you were to create a loving kindness practice with yourself? What would you need to do to bring a practice of self care truly into your life? SO many times you put others needs and your responsibilities for them before your own. How might you best serve others if you would be better serving yourself? And you understand, at a whole new level what looking after and loving youself really looks like. Sometimes we carry burdens for others that are not ours to carry. What if we could put those burdens down? You will look at and do powerful exercises that looks at this. You gain some clarity about which of these responsibilities are yours and which may belong elsewhere.  You begin a series of practices that truly honor you and transform your relationship to yourself.

Module Highlights:

• Health is wealth
• Self Care - the old and the new
• Putting down the burden that's not yours to carry
• Supporting yourself asking support of others 

Module 6

Keep it Moving

You will be so excited that you have got this far in your journey to your dream life. 

By now, you have really seen the impact all this hard and inspiring work that you are doing is having. You are surprising yourself on what you are accomplishing while feeling the challenge that comes to sustaining action on the things that you care about.  This module helps you go beyond the obstacles and challenges that inevitably arise and you discover how to create and stay in momentum on any project that you take on. Remember, your life is one big project and in any big project you have to ensure you have the structures in place to get to the finish line. You will discover what you actually work on matters, and the order in which you work on them also matters. Learning a prioritizing approach that you can use in any area of your life will allow you to take a deeper dive into staying in action and achieving your goals. The power of reviewing creates a foundation in identifying your next steps. You also discover how you get in your own way so that you can guard against it happening in the future.

Module Highlights:

• Going beyond the obstacles and challenges
• Staying in momentum
• Structures to finish powerfully
• What actually matters?
• Achieving your goals
• Review, review, review

Module 7

Living in the Zone 

YOU DID IT! Congratulations on getting to the last module of the program and transforming your life. You are truly in action each and every day on your dream life.

You are now in a space that I call ‘living in the zone’.  You will celebrate your accomplishments in this program.  Why? Because you've worked so hard and it’s important to learn to always celebrate what you accomplish - be it large or small. You have learned so much about yourself and a new approach to your life that you will create some guiding principles you can use to move forward. You are amazing. You are inspiring. You are executing on your dream and you are living your fullest and best life each day.

Module Highlights:

• Living in the zone – what does this mean?
• Celebrating the wins large and small
• Lessons learned
• Guiding principles for your life
• Congratulations 

Shirley is a specialist in leadership, individual performance, equity, diversity and inclusion, and has been doing this work over the past 34 years. She has worked in the UK, US, Europe and Africa. Her clients include Fortune 100 companies, small businesses and Foundations including L’Oreal, Open Society Foundations, Civil Rights Corp, UN Foundation, BP, the NFL, the Global Alliance for Clean Cooking, National Association of Certified Professional Midwives, and Windsor Leadership Trust.

In 2017 she designed and chaired the very first ‘Inspiring Black/Asian Leader’ Windsor Leadership program at Windsor Castle. Shirley’s Chicago-based coaching, consulting practice and online training business works with Senior Leaders and C suite Executives, with a primary, not exclusive focus on Senior Women including Women of Color.  She is PCC accredited by the International Coaching Federation. She is trained in Hellinger’s Systemic theory, and an accredited Intercultural Development Inventory Assessor (IDI).

She consulted on the launch of the SOROS Racial Equality Fellowship for leaders influencing the racial justice field. Over the years, her equity work has included delivering race workshops in midwifery, working with NACPM and the National Association to Advance Black Birth; delivering Diversity Engagement Sessions to the top 1000 leaders in Shell; and designing and delivering the Diversity and Inclusion Program for all Partners in KPMG UK.

Shirley launched She’s Got Drive Podcast at the historic Apollo's Women of the World Festival in 2017.  She interviews Black Women about their success and how they achieved it.  In 2019 She's Got Drive was named by Black Enterprise as one of the top 20 podcasts for Black women. She was recently the Chair of the Apollo's Women's network Empower.