GROUNDED LEADERSHIP. HUMAN FIRST.
For leaders navigating pressure, power, and responsibility without losing themselves.
POSITIONING
Rashida Saunders is a keynote speaker and trauma informed leadership voice redefining strength inside high pressure systems. She helps institutions navigate power, responsibility, and visibility without sacrificing their humanity.
DISTINCTION
Her perspective is grounded in lived experience, not theory. She speaks from inside the systems she now helps strengthen, bridging authority and vulnerability with clarity and steadiness. Her authority is not borrowed. It is lived.
WHO SHE SERVES
• High achieving leaders navigating pressure behind composed exteriors
• Universities and higher education institutions
• Executive and senior leadership teams
• Public safety and municipal agencies
Her work resonates most with leaders who have been called “the strong one” and are ready to redefine what that strength costs.
SPEAKING FOCUS
On stage, Rashida explores:
• Leading without armor in high pressure systems
• Reframing resilience as strength with boundaries
• Building cultures where accountability and humanity coexist
Audiences leave with language for what they have been carrying and tools to lead without abandoning themselves.
AUTHOR
Author of Permission to Break, a memoir on endurance, identity, and the courage to feel.
