Beyond Strategy didn’t start with a business idea.

It honestly started with me sitting in rooms thinking:

“Why is no one saying the real thing?”

“Why are we pretending this tension isn’t here?”

“Why are leaders expected to carry so much… alone?”

For years, I watched churches, teams, and whole communities struggle, not because they lacked vision or love for God, but because there was no real space for honesty. People were exhausted. Culture issues went unnamed. Transitions were chaotic. And too many decisions were being made from survival instead of clarity. And something in me couldn’t ignore it anymore.

You know that moment when you walk into a room, a staff meeting, a ministry gathering, a team check-in, and you can feel something is off, but nobody says it? Everyone is smiling. The agenda is moving. People are doing their jobs. But under the surface? There’s tension. There’s exhaustion. There’s something unspoken that everyone feels but avoids naming. Or maybe you’ve seen a leader, a pastor, a director, a supervisor say, “I’m fine, everything’s good,” while their eyes are telling a completely different story. They keep pushing, keep performing, keep carrying the weight because they don’t feel like they have permission to be honest.

That gap between what’s happening publicly and what’s happening privately is where so many teams and leaders get stuck. And the longer that gap goes unaddressed, the heavier everything becomes.

Awareness is a ministry… in any context.

Yes, I have a B.S. in Business Management, and I earned my Master of Divinity from Howard University. But the truth is, Beyond Strategy wasn’t born from degrees. It came from noticing. It came from listening. It came from realizing that leadership collapses in the places we refuse to look at. So I stepped into a role I didn’t even have language for yet:

Someone who helps leaders slow down, reflect, and tell the truth about what’s really happening beneath the surface. Not counseling. Not crisis management. Not traditional consulting. Something in between. A space for clarity. A space for honesty. A space to realign before everything falls apart. I became an Accountability Partner, someone leaders can process with without fear of judgment, pushback, or church politics. Someone who can name patterns they’re too close to see. And slowly, Beyond Strategy grew into a safe space for the conversations leaders rarely get to have out loud.

Because leadership is more than strategy. It’s stewardship. It’s emotional health. It’s integrity. It’s the willingness to look at what’s uncomfortable so you don’t lead from exhaustion or avoidance.

I don’t have all the answers. But I know how to listen. I know how to ask the right questions. And I believe leaders deserve a place to be human, too. This is the beginning of that work.

Let’s walk this out together.