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Meet Sabrina
My Priorities
Faith, culture, and wellness are high priorities for me. And vulnerability is my superpower. You can usually find me drinking tea, listening to an audio book, connecting, or creating. I enjoy slow mornings with rituals that prioritize my wellbeing and spending time with my loving husband and our two bilingual and energetic children. I truly value spending time with my children and teaching them about the importance of living a healthy lifestyle and becoming bolder in brightness.
My Purpose
In a world of radical uncertainty, the need for purposeful leadership has never been more urgent. Gone are the days when the onboarding experience for leaders simply entails reading a leadership manual and collective agreement if you’re in an unionized environment, and shadowing a colleague. For leaders to excel and help build strong organizations they need to be equipped with the mindset, tools, and strategies needed to respond to leadership challenges. Embrace Leadership is the missing piece that will do this and more. Our training programs will help leaders learn how to foster collaboration and healthy workplace environments, and create lasting positive impact.
“The tenets of my life that guide my conduct and approach with clients and community partners is humility, respect, integrity, trust, honesty, wisdom, bravery, and empathy”
My Journey
My story probably sounds familiar. I made the decision to launch my business while deeply entrenched in the corporate world. The idea for my business was born out of a desire to address the psychological safety and well-being of employees at the not-for-profit agency where I work as a service manager.
In December 2023, I earned an Executive Education Certification at Harvard University. By January 2024, I was applying what I had learned from this program and over the years facilitating my first experiential learning session for over 46 leaders, including the HR director, executive director, director of service, senior leaders, and managers in administration, information technology services, property, finance, and direct service.
These sessions aimed to help leaders navigate challenges while fostering trust and well-being in the workplace. I facilitated seven (7) sessions. Alongside these group sessions, I’ve provided one-on-one coaching for leaders navigating a unionized workplace environment. These tailored coaching plans have been particularly valued by middle and senior management, helping them address specific challenges while embedding best practices that are anti-racist, anti-oppressive, trauma-informed, intersectional, and healing-centered into their organizational culture.
I am grateful to the senior leadership team, and all the leaders for trusting me to lead the organization’s leadership development initiative in 2024. As well as to my family and colleagues who have supported me on this journey. It has been a privilege to soft-launch my training and coaching program with this leadership team. The overwhelmingly positive feedback has affirmed my purpose. Leaders have described my sessions as “amazing experiences” and noted “light bulb moments” that helped them address pressing employee relations challenges and to rethink their approach to navigating leadership challenges.
In a world of radical uncertainty, the need for purposeful leadership has never been more urgent. These sessions and coaching experiences have given me the confidence to expand my training and coaching services beyond this organization. My goal is to help leaders in other organizations develop the skills to build trust, well-being, inclusion, belonging, and psychological safety in their workplace cultures for themselves and their most valuable assets, their employees.
My Inspiration
My grandmothers have been my greatest inspiration for becoming a business owner. As a child, I loved hearing my mother’s stories about her life in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and how my grandmother, her mother, made and sold chocolate by hand, rolling it into finger shapes for tea. She would also make lemonade and arrange provision—ground crops like potatoes and eddoes—which she placed in heaps on a table by the roadside to sell. My grandmother even sold coal by the heap for coal pots and was also a tailor, sewing pants, shorts, and shirts for boys. My father’s mother was also a businesswoman, owning a hotel in St. Maarten.
My mother learned to sew as a seamstress and worked in a dress shop at a hotel in St. Vincent, making curtains that tourists would buy. At 21, she immigrated to Canada in 1968, bringing a reference letter from her employer, Mr. Windfield. She dreamed of becoming a clothing designer but lacked support to achieve this goal. Instead, she sewed uniforms and clothing for herself and friends and pursued a career as a personal support worker (PSW), from which she retired.
I am driven by the legacy of my trailblazing grandmothers, the resilience of my mother, who set aside her own dreams and worked, at times, three jobs to provide for my siblings and I, and the steady encouragement of my husband. It is in the small margins between work and parenting that I have carved out the space to pursue my dreams.
My proudest moments are when I hear young BIPOC girls, including my own daughter, say they want to be just like me when they grow up. As a first-generation Canadian Black woman, I understand the importance of representation and the need for BIPOC women to occupy diverse roles and spaces. Leadership, particularly at senior and executive levels, is beginning to see more Black and racialized women in these roles, but there’s still a long way to go.
Through my coaching practice, I empower leaders to author lives that are authentic yet balanced, encouraging them to step boldly into their light. This work, rooted in my story and the legacy of the women before me, fuels my passion and gives me purpose.
Mission Statement
To equip those in positions of trust and leadership to respond to challenges with strategic intent, fostering trust, collaboration, and creating workplaces grounded in psychological safety and well-being.
Vision Statement
We help build resilient organizations. We do so by equipping their leaders, both seasoned and new, to respond to disruptive challenges experienced within the workplace with purpose and clarity, fostering environments of trust, collaboration, and care for all.