The Possible Woman
Member Directory
Discover the women-owned businesses and professionals in our community.
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Naeemah Elias
Elias Presence
Naeemah Elias is a TEDx speaker, leadership coach, and founder of Elias Presence Ventures. Known for her ability to inspire confidence, cultivate talent, and create opportunities for others, she has dedicated her career to helping people recognize their value and step boldly into leadership. A Harvard graduate, former State Street executive, award-winning actress, and mother of three, Naeemah combines psychology, storytelling, and practical leadership strategies to help individuals and organizations grow. Her work empowers people to turn obstacles into opportunities and build legacies that extend far beyond themselves.
Boston, MA
Business Coaching
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Alexis Gladstone
Intelead
Alexis Gladstone believes leadership challenges don't vary by industry, only by culture. She's spent more than 20 years testing that belief through her company, Intelead. She trains and coaches leaders at every level, from first-time managers to senior executives, on the real challenges of leading people, making hard decisions, and adapting to today's workplace. Over the years, she's worked in and with organizations of every size, across a wide range of industries. Whether it’s a manufacturing plant, a financial services company, or a not-for-profit, the themes are strikingly similar. People want to be heard. Teams need trust. Leaders need the confidence to make tough calls, have hard conversations, and bring out the best in others. Clients value that Alexis keeps things real. She brings practical experience, asks hard questions, and skips the textbook answers. Her job isn't to tell leaders what to do. It's to help them think more clearly and see things from a new angle. That belief is also what led her to create The Readiness Edge, a coaching program for college students. After years of coaching experienced leaders, she started wondering: what if people built these skills before they even entered the workforce? Through the program, she helps students build the confidence, communication skills, and self-awareness that make the leap from campus to career a whole lot smoother, and equips them with a foundation of skills to further develop in their careers.
Chicago, IL
Speaking & Training
Desi-Ann Gordon
Caribbean Virtual Assistants
Desi-Ann Gordon is the CEO & Founder of Caribbean Virtual Assistants. Fondly called The VA Mom, Desi-Ann guides Caribbean-based professionals in starting and growing fulfilling virtual assistant careers through training, coaching, and community. Her company also equips CEOs and business owners with the tools and confidence to successfully delegate to reliable, professional Caribbean VAs.
Santa Cruz, Trinidad and Tobago
Education
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Michelle Mays
RenayMeshell Events, Inc
I'm Michelle, the founder of RenayMeshell Events. I recognize the challenges business founders and corporate leaders face when organizing events. These venues embody both vision and unseen pressure. The founder who built something from nothing is staring at a concept board someone created, but it doesn't reflect what she needs to share with her clients and team. She didn't come this far to launch her company or her client’s product in a room that can be anyone’s vision. The other is the space of the team leader who didn't build the company but stands in front of the room, representing it at the offsite, the summit, or the milestone celebration everyone will remember or choose to forget. She isn't just organizing an event; she has to ensure the culture feels authentic and relatable to her team. Different spaces that answer the same foundational question: ‘What must this event say?’ Not what it should look like, but what it must mean to you and to everyone you're bringing into the event and the space. Your answer shapes how the room and event should look. Your answer becomes the foundation for everything else, from the design to the run of show. Each initial meeting follows the same system, Engage Design Reveal® — we start with an honest discussion about the vision, then design the plan, and I create the timeline. You arrive at the reveal to experience the event with everyone in the room, not manage from the sidelines or between conversations. Whether you're the founder or department lead, the approach is the same. The room you're standing in must reflect what you intended.
New York, NY
Other
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Malaika Simmons
Momentology Media
Success Shouldn’t Require Self-Sacrifice. Design What Comes Next.
Malaika Simmons is a human-centered design strategist, executive advisor, international TEDx speaker, and creator of The Momentology™ Method. Her work challenges a deeply embedded assumption about success: that high performance has to come at the expense of the person producing it. Working at the intersection of leadership, organizational systems, and human behavior, Malaika helps high-performing women and impact-driven organizations recognize where success has become dependent on overextension and redesign the conditions that sustain it. For individual women, that means aligning who they are, how they lead, and what they want next so achievement no longer requires self-sacrifice. For organizations, it means identifying the hidden systems, expectations, and patterns that make their best people the safety net for performance. Through executive advising, consulting, keynotes, workshops, and The Momentology™ Method, Malaika helps people move beyond the myth of work-life balance toward something more powerful: alignment. Because sustainable success isn’t about carrying more. It’s about designing differently.
Ashburn, VA
Speaking & Training