The BOOST Approach™
A joint venture between BeLeadership™ and Next Accension® presents a powerful opportunity to enhance organizational effectiveness, deepen employee engagement, and transform leadership development. By combining Ethos-Driven Leadership™ with DEI-informed strategies, this collaboration offers a distinctive approach to strengthening leadership capacity while cultivating inclusive, high-performing workplaces.
Why Work with Us For Your Curated Retreats & Leadership Development Experiences
With The BOOST Appproach™, we recognize that leadership is more than a title—it’s about creating impact, building trust, and leading with clarity and purpose. Our curated retreats and leadership development experiences are designed for you--high-performing Black women business leaders who drive growth, scaling businesses, and shaping industries.
We bring together BeLeadership™’s Ethos-Driven Leadership® approach and Next Accension®’s DEI-informed employee engagement expertise to create a transformative experience that strengthens leadership, enhances team collaboration, and boosts organizational effectiveness.
Why This Collaboration is Valuable for Businesses & Boards
Scalable Solutions for Growth-Minded Organizations
Businesses benefit from leadership strategies that can be adapted to their unique size, structure, and growth stage.
Sustainable Impact
We foster long-term engagement, high-performing teams, and sustainable growth by embedding values-driven leadership with well-being, belonging, and culture-informed strategies. The BOOST Approach ensures that leaders not only align their teams but also create a thriving workplace that accelerates success.
BOOST isn’t just a retreat—it’s an essential investment in leadership that transforms business outcomes.
Future-Ready Leadership
The BOOST Approach equips executives, boards, and teams with the tools to innovate, inspire, and drive meaningful transformation. Designed by leaders for leaders who want to strengthen alignment, enhance collaboration, and accelerate results, BOOST delivers a strategic framework that turns vision into action.
By integrating cutting-edge leadership strategies with culture-informed insights, BOOST ensures organizations stay agile, competitive, and primed for long-term success.
The BOOST Difference for BOW Members
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Elevate Leadership Development with Clarity & Purpose
Great leadership begins with alignment. Our Ethos-Driven Leadership® framework helps you:
• Clarify your leadership identity so you can lead with authenticity and confidence.
• Set clear, purpose-driven goals that align your values with your business objectives.
• Develop executive presence and decision-making skills that elevate your leadership.We help you move beyond day-to-day operations and step into the visionary leadership role your business needs.
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Drive Organizational Effectiveness & Team Productivity
Success isn’t just about individual leadership—it’s about creating systems and teams that work. Our leadership development retreats help you:
• Strengthen your team’s cohesion through trust-building and psychological safety.
• Improve productivity by embedding leadership strategies that drive efficiency.
• Refine business operations with a leadership approach that fosters growth and stability.By integrating Next Accension®’s DEI-informed workplace engagement expertise, we ensure that your organization’s leadership strategies are not only effective but also inclusive and sustainable.
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Build Trust & Team Collaboration for Long-Term Success
Effective leadership is built on trust. Our retreats provide the tools to:
• Enhance team trust and accountability, leading to stronger collaboration.
• Develop leadership skills that drive engagement and inspire innovation.
• Improve communication and feedback systems to support high-performance teams.We help you turn your leadership vision into a reality by empowering your team to take ownership, contribute ideas, and drive business success.
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Set a Vision for Long-Term Impact & Growth
Black women business leaders are shaping the future of leadership, and our approach ensures you leave a lasting impact. We provide:
• Strategic leadership coaching that aligns with your business and personal growth goals.
• Goal-setting frameworks that clarify your path forward with precision and focus.
• A blueprint for sustainable leadership that enhances impact beyond the bottom line.Our joint expertise ensures that your leadership development is future-ready, resilient, and centered on real-world application.
Leading with Purpose. Engaging for Impact.
Opportunities for Organizational Effectiveness, Employee Engagement, and Leadership Development
Advancing Organizational Effectiveness
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BeLeadership™’s Ethos-Driven Leadership® framework helps organizations bridge the gap between their values and leadership practices, ensuring that decision-making, culture, and strategy align for sustainable success.
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By integrating Next Accension®’s expertise in DEI-driven workplace engagement, organizations can create structures that enhance team collaboration, operational efficiency, and innovation.
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Leveraging research-backed methodologies, organizations can measure and refine their leadership approaches, ensuring alignment with their workforce’s evolving needs.
Deepening Employee Engagement
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By fostering psychological safety and open communication, this joint offering helps organizations create environments where employees feel valued, engaged, and motivated to contribute at their highest level.
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Next Accension® specializes in strengthening ERG effectiveness, ensuring they serve as strategic assets for engagement, talent development, and business growth.
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Through leadership coaching and immersive retreats, business leaders learn how to engage their teams meaningfully, improving retention and overall job satisfaction.
Transforming Leadership Development
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Leaders are challenged to prioritize well-being, authenticity, and equity, equipping them to drive impact in diverse, evolving environments.
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Customized retreats offer hands-on, interactive learning experiences where leaders develop essential skills in adaptive leadership, inclusive decision-making, and resilience.
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Personalized coaching integrates ethos-driven leadership principles with actionable strategies, ensuring leaders can navigate complexity and lead with confidence.
We See You: Curated Retreats & Leadership Development
The BeLeadership™ x Next Accension® joint venture is designed to support high-impact Black women business leaders, each of whom is driving business growth, scaling teams, and shaping industries. Below are key archetypes representing potential customers and how our curated retreats and leadership development offerings meet their unique needs. Each of these leaders is scaling, transforming, and redefining leadership in their respective industries. Our curated retreats and leadership development programs are uniquely designed to meet them where they are—offering tailored solutions to enhance clarity, trust, impact, and growth.
The Visionary Founder
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A purpose-driven entrepreneur scaling her company while ensuring her leadership aligns with her values. She is seeking clarity, goal-setting frameworks, and a leadership approach that prioritizes impact without burnout.
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A structured approach to leadership that aligns her company’s growth with her purpose.
Ethos-Driven Leadership® training to sharpen her executive presence and decision-making.
A curated retreat to step away from operations, gain clarity, and set a vision for sustainable growth.
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Personalized leadership intensives to enhance strategic thinking.
Goal-setting and productivity frameworks to align business objectives with long-term vision.
Coaching and retreat-based development to help her lead with authenticity and balance.
The Organizational Growth Architect
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A business leader focused on scaling operations, improving team effectiveness, and refining business processes to match company growth. She needs tactical leadership development that enhances productivity, trust, and engagement.
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A highly functional team that operates with trust, efficiency, and clear accountability.
Organizational effectiveness coaching to align leadership strategies with business operations.
A leadership development framework that drives measurable performance improvements.
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Team productivity and effectiveness coaching to strengthen leadership at every level.
Retreat-based learning experiences to build cohesive, high-performance teams.
DEI-informed engagement strategies from Next Accension® to increase employee retention.
The High-Performance CEO
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A seasoned business leader managing a fast-growing team and navigating leadership at scale. She needs a trusted space to refine leadership strategies, improve organizational effectiveness, and foster trust across her workforce.
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A high-impact leadership retreat to refine her executive leadership strategy.
Teambuilding frameworks to strengthen trust, communication, and collaboration.
Strategies for productivity, accountability, and employee engagement to keep her company thriving.
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Immersive leadership development experiences that integrate team-building and trust-building exercises.
Next Accension®’s DEI-informed strategies to elevate employee engagement and workplace effectiveness.
Operational alignment coaching to ensure leadership impact translates into business growth.
The Community Builder & Impact Leader
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A leader who views her business as a vehicle for social change, community impact, and systemic transformation. She is deeply engaged in DEI, leadership equity, and building an inclusive business culture.
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Strategies for scaling impact without losing operational efficiency.
A leadership approach that enhances workplace belonging and engagement.
A curated retreat to develop trust-based, inclusive leadership skills.
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Inclusive leadership retreats that strengthen belonging and engagement strategies.
BeLeadership™’s authenticity-driven leadership model to enhance her leadership influence.
Next Accension®’s expertise in DEI and organizational culture development to sustain impact at scale.
The Legacy Builder
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A founder or executive who has achieved business success and is now focused on long-term impact, sustainability, and succession planning. She is ready to mentor, develop new leaders, and institutionalize a legacy of leadership.
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A sustainable leadership model that ensures her company thrives beyond her direct leadership.
A trust-based succession plan that identifies and develops the next generation of leaders.
An immersive retreat to focus on mentorship, impact, and leadership transition.
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Leadership development retreats designed to transfer knowledge and prepare the next generation.
Trust-building and goal-setting strategies to empower successors.
Strategic legacy coaching to ensure leadership continues with clarity and purpose.
Meet the Team
Dawn Christian, MBA
As CEO and Founder of BeLeadership™ | Belong by Dawn Christian® , Dawn welcomes you to an unmatched experience of Ethos-Driven Leadership®. BeLeadership™ partners with leaders at the intersection of leadership impact, belonging, and workplace well-being. We specialize in shaping leadership outcomes that drive organizational effectiveness, foster collaboration, and produce meaningful results—driving revenue, enhancing engagement, strengthening retention, and creating sustainable impact.
Founder of BeLeadership™ | CEO/Founder of Belong by Dawn Christian®
Cherise Cole, PhD
Next Accension® was founded by its Chief Engagement Officer, Dr. Cherise Cole, who has a passion for accelerating access to executive leadership roles for underrepresented employee populations-particularly Black women. Her groundbreaking research on employee resource groups illuminated the need for employers to invest in their human resources and DEI efforts if they hope to achieve organizational equity and increase engagement and productivity.
CEO/Founder of Next Accension®
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Let’s Build the Future of Leadership—Together
You are a trailblazer, industry leader, and visionary. With The BOOST Approach, we are committed to supporting your leadership journey with powerful, results-driven retreats and development programs that strengthen leadership, enhance team effectiveness, and drive business success.
Let’s co-create a leadership experience that transforms how you lead, build, and impact the world.
Ready to design your next-level leadership retreat? Let’s talk.