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Are You Building The Academic Career You Want...Or Hard At Work, Checking Boxes On Everyone Else's To-Do List?

A successful career doing the work that you love doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice your values, your family, or your joy. 

You have been to every career development workshop and it all sounds great, but no one is talking about the kind of institutional pressures YOU are dealing with….

You are working hard but somehow STUCK in inefficiency, putting everyone else’s priorities first, and starting to doubt whether you can ever really have control and be successful...

You spent years studying and training and sacrificing to become academic faculty…and here you are still working nights and weekends on the projects you care most about…

This doesn’t feel great at all…and yet your colleagues have insinuated that this unpleasant reality is simply part and parcel of academic life. They tell you to settle, to be grateful because it could be worse, and just do what Johnny over there did…

STOP TRYING TO BE EVERYTHING TO EVERYBODY AND GET TO LEARNING THE STRATEGIES THAT WILL 3X YOUR PRODUCTIVITY, HONE YOUR PASSIONS INTO GRANT-FUNDED PROJECTS, AND CREATE THE CAREER YOU WORKED SO HARD TO ACHIEVE.

Every day we help high-achieving women of color faculty in academic medicine and public health, like you, re-frame and re-create their academic life so that they can channel their ideas, passions, and skills into grant-funded work with institutional support. 

YOU CAN WALK AWAY FROM THIS INSTITUTIONAL MINDSET FOREVER…AND TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR CAREER WITH CLARITY AND STRATEGY. 

WHAT TO EXPECT

Structured, organized, and efficient curriculum to teach you what to do 

Face to face virtual coaching in a group format to ensure you go from theory to action in real time

24/7 support in a community of high-achieving womxn who are building their dream careers

Clarify Your Academic Value

Without knowing the specific and unique set of skills you bring to the table, you have no compass to guide your decisions and thus your career. The goal is to define your value and then operationalize it right away – aligning your goals and activities, optimizing your mentor relationships, and building your base for navigation in your career.  

Optimize Your Micro-Environment

Being at the mercy of the day’s chaos is over. Cultivate self-care at work habits that protect your time, keep you in good standing with your department, and free you from the tyranny of the never-ending to-do list. Learn task setting and time management so getting your work done is inevitable. 

Grant Getting Strategy

You’ve got ideas and it’s time to bring them to life! You will crystalize your research lane and your structural needs so no effort is wasted, learn my Functional Feedback technique to squeeze every drop out of peer review, and stay in charge of your process while making resilience a tangible habit. 

"I think there is a greater appreciation of my unique personal journey, and muting of a lot of noise that doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. Imposter syndrome isn't gone but its way less, there is less comparison. There is also less of an institutional mindset, and more of me doing things that drive me and not because the institution requires it and not because I want to prove myself to an institution. It is empowering to be in the driving seat of my career (where as before, there was a little bit of fear and trepidation there because i did not really know HOW, and also wasn't part of a community of badasses that is doing exactly that."

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MD, MPH, EMERGENCY MEDICINE

get that grant®- results

"This was a whole new way to approach the grant writing timeline and support myself through the process, without being crushed every time someone said that they did not understand my idea. Action-wise, I have outlined my grant-writing schedule on the calendar for my deadline, and I feel really capable to take that on. I'm somewhat mind-blown that it is never taught this way, or articulated as such in the countless grant-writing seminars I've participated in. I did decide recently, however, that I will no longer complain about what hasn't been taught to me during PhD and postdoc training about how to be a faculty member, and to move forward with the trust that I am learning it and being taught now by my own resourcefulness."

 PHD, PSYCHOLOGY

"Love the curriculum. It's organized so well-- the mix of watching/hearing material and then personal work activities are so well coordinated. It makes my educator heart so happy... The organizational strategies are like gold. These things take a ton of work but I think it lays the groundwork to actually accomplish things and move the ball forward AND recognizes reality. I loved that so many of the women in the program including Kemi are also mothers with working partners, so just keeping it pragmatic and real validated this so much for me."

MD, MS PULMONARY MEDICINE

WE ARE  100% committed to helping OUR clients get results. In fact, during the first 30 days WE'RE going to be watching you closely. If you aren't actually doing the work, WE'll politely ask you to leave and you’ll lose your opportunity to transform both your experience of your career and the results you can create. 
That's how committed WE ARE to the integrity of this program.
 

THIS IS PERFECT FOR:

THIS IS NOT A GOOD FIT FOR:

High-achieving *WOC* faculty in academic medicine who want to secure grant funding doing the work that inspires them. 

Ambitious women who want to work SMARTER, not harder, to 3x their productivity and submit multiple grants in the next 12 months. 

High-achieving women who have BIG GOALS to achieve and don’t want to sacrifice their life in order to be successful in their career.

People who don’t have an academic faculty position – you have to be faculty!

People who have NO CLUE what they want to contribute academically or what their research, papers, and/or grants would be about. 

People who have NO EXPERIENCE in any scholarly work at all (ex: papers, abstracts, grants, and/or new research projects). You need to know the basics of academic writing. 

Driven women who are motivated, teachable and, ready to take action right NOW.

People who want to COMPLAIN, always be comfortable, and are not willing to try anything new. 

Dedicated women who really CARE about their research, their ideas, and the change they can bring to their patients and community. 


There is a qualification process for each faculty member. This program is for those committed to making a difference in their field. It’s very exciting, it produces unprecedented results for you - however, it’s not for everyone.

Qualification Criteria for Each Get That Grant ® Member

IS THIS A GREAT FIT FOR YOU?

People who REFUSE to grow in a nurtured, curated *group* setting. 

Become the CEO of your own career.

Whether you are a generalist or subspecialist, a surgeon or an intensivist – you have gotten this far by being an expert at adapting and excelling in standards...set by everyone else. 

This often includes:

GET ON THE WAITLIST!

It’s not okay because you studied, worked, trained, and toiled for YEARS to get to this position. You probably chose to make LESS money because you believed in the academic mission. You were passionate about making a real difference in your field…and now you are settling for much less. You are still waiting for the time when you actually get to take charge. Meanwhile…time is ticking. And maybe, you are even considering down-sizing your dreams to avoid burning out, and just giving in to the status quo. 

This is a sign that it’s time for a shift. 

• Putting things you need to do for others ahead of your own work, leaving you to catch up on nights and weekends
• Confusing being grateful for your job with saying Yes to anything your mentor or leader asks of you
• Relying on people who may or may not care about your work to value it and tell you if it’s good enough
• Relying on quick wins and co-investigator roles to keep you academically afloat, while putting your own work last

This is not okay! None of this is okay or ‘just the way it is.’ No!

NOTE: Not an implosion, not a dramatic exit….a shift. A shift where you first realize that what got you here, is not going to get you where you want to go. There is no amount of people-pleasing, trainee-mindset-driven work that is going to create the academic career that you want. Being faculty can be great, but not if you have no control over your career. Working nights and weekends now, will not get you to a future of not working nights and weekends. Prioritizing everyone else’s needs now will never get you to a place where you get to come first. The “pay your dues now, so you can have what you want later” is a trainee mindset, and it is not serving you. 


Ultimately, NONE of this ok because it leads to a) wasting your time, b) burnout, and c) the slow and dangerous creep of self-doubt. These are toxic to your potential – and you have barely just unlocked it. 

We are here to unlock the intelligence, passion, and potential of women of color in academic medicine because you and your ideas are WORTH it. 

Long ago you abandoned ‘easy’ and chose this career path. It is not easy, but it can be AMAZING. It can be a fulfilling, nourishing, and inspiring journey to building a legacy of work that matters.  

You would not be where you are if you did not have what it takes. 
This is a sign that it’s time for a shift. 

What I really find helpful was the weekly curriculum. Each module felt like only one small step. And I started questioning myself - am I progressing fast enough? I am very impatient and want to see results fast! But I told myself - trust the process. By the time I got to 1.4, I looked back at myself and realized that I have changed. I can't even recognize myself! All the other things that I have worked on in the previous modules were stacking on top of each other so subtly that I could not see the changes at real time. Love Love Love! 

MD, MSCE, Nephrology

I have always been the one to please others. Now, I feel it in myself that something is changing. I see myself doings to please MYSELF, know MY wants, and take MY space.

I remember sitting looking at the goals I wrote out for myself after I signed my offer letter and realizing that I needed help to get there. It wasn't that I couldn't do the science or the clinical medicine, it was more the idea of juggling the responsibility of my new faculty role with all of the "other stuff" I was suddenly being approached to do. I felt like a coach would be a helpful way to externalize the thoughts I felt about these asks so that I could see them clearly and make decisions that were in line with my ambition and goals. I was 1000% right! GTG has been more than I expected - offering affirmation of the isolation and foolery that I have been feeling as a Black woman in academic medicine while also acknowledging that it is ok to want to continue and thrive in spite of the foolery. Then woven into the affirmation are the tools necessary to be PRODUCTIVE AF without losing your mind (sidebar: work reimbursement for the program into your offer letter, beloved, because you deserve).

MD, PHD, Hematology

ENROLL if you can!

No one else teaches what THIS program offers.

PhD, Assistant Professor

There are a lot of faculty coaches out there, but this program addresses all the tools to benefit women of color in academic medicine and public health who envision a stellar research career. From the get go, there is no time wasted in trying to explain your environment to others. Kemi leads by example and has encountered/overcome/problem-solved so many challenges on her end herself, so that she can ask pointed questions that will get to you figuring out the next steps to take in your own situation. I've also engaged in other coaching in the past. In looking back, I realize now that most coaches either left academia to become coaches (i.e., they stop encountering institutional challenges) or were never faculty in the first place, and therefore do not have the lived experience of what's it's like to progress in a research career as faculty, especially faculty of color, who are both hypervisible and invisible at the same time.

I think that as WOC in academic medicine, we're used to having our ideas marginalized and having to work twice as hard to get ahead. This program teaches us that we don't have to work ourselves into burnout, submit to exploitation, and tolerate other people's bullshit to be successful.

PhD, Assistant Professor

These are ideas that the world NEEDS to hear. 

If you value your time and YOURSELF, then you owe it to yourself to have access to these strategic steps that will literally change the foundation upon which you build your career - the sooner the better!

PhD, psychology

They cannot AFFORD not to. 

The price stopped my heart when I heard. What am I willing to invest in ME. Can I do that? spend money on me? The concern was, will it work? will the money be wasted? Now I realize that the program is solid gold. You get us, you ARE us. Although the price is set and reflects what you and your team put and have put into it. The value is commensurate with your value as a coach and the value to me is commensurate with how much I put into it. If I put in a ton, I'll get a ton out. I don't make as much as other on the call and this came out of savings and no regrets. In the time I was in the program I chose my new position and institution and transitioned into my new institution using the information I learned about me in the pre-work and module 1. Used modules 2 and 3 to add clarity to my work and path and used module 4 to bring all I learned before to fruition in ways that have literally brought joy and peace to my work life - something that seemed impossible last year at this time. It was worth it. The additional cost for the X program again took my breath away but was what I needed to do to get the most from all you have provided through GTG. Thankful!

MD, Oncology 

I trusted that it was an INVESTMENT in ME.

Do not be afraid, take the leap of faith and INVEST this in YOURSELF. 

MD, Oncology 

 The return is far greater than any other course you will pay for or anything else you will buy, as you are investing in yourself and working to realize what is important to your reason for existing. 

The structures in academic medicine that don't serve us need constant WORK and COURAGE on our part to keep up. 

MD, Pulmonary

Coaching is a crucial tool to help us to keep up with our endeavors in academic medicine. I think that the help that this program offers in the mental framework, validation, community support and above all the value of each of our work is invaluable.

 WORTH ever penny. 

PhD, Assistant Professor

 I fought my institution hard to reimburse me for GTG, and that was my first step in advocating for my needs. I am paying for LIBERATE with my own money bc I don't need to justify this to anyone else anymore. Plus, I did the math, and I am going to get that money back and more when I get my R01 grants and go up for promotion early bc I did GTG and LIBERATE.

GTG has all of the ANSWERS to the daily things we STRUGGLE with in academia. 

PharmD, MPH

It's an approach to un-learning and re-learning in a safe space where you feel seen, heard, and appreciated. It's really helped me to be truly honest with myself, to get out of my own way, and do all the things I set out to do! 

The COMMUNITY of women on the call who are living what you are experiencing every day is value alone. 

MD, Maternal-Fetal Medicine

The coaching calls and Facebook group are like a regular hug that I knew I needed but just didn't know how to find on my own.

It is TRANSFORMATIVE for your mindset as you're in this upward climb at this CAREER stage.

MD, MS, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine

It helps to not live on an island but be joined with so many other badass academic women of color who are doing amazing things and also can act as informed believers to the realities of this work. It means a lot to get that boost of support from Kemi but also from hearing the strategies and realizing oh yes, I can do this too. It helps to put into context all this hard work and effort -- realizing that I am responsible (and capable) for making it worthwhile.

Create a strong FOUNDATION, PATH and PLAN for your work.  

PhD, Associate Professor

To grow skills that will combat those feelings of imposter syndrome etc. that creep in. Most assuredly to answer the question - why should I stay in academic medicine when it crops up. To find community and role modeling to create community where they are. I usually say there is no such thing as a safe space, only brave spaces - This WAS a safe AND brave space. So unique, needed and pivotal to the experience.

 There is no one thing that will change your MINDSET and your career strategy like participation in this program. 

MD, Maternal Fetal Medicine

 I am so glad that I did this as early in my career as I did because I cannot imagine having spun my wheels for longer before coming to this. incredible space and community.

MD, MAS GERIATRIC MEDICINE

Over the past 5-7 years I have tried and tried to implement some form of these tools taught (ex: purpose, vision, breaking things down, measuring energy and setting my schedule to map out, etc.) but was never able to put it into action the way I had with this program because I think it truly speaks to (1) the need for coaches that have traveled this journey and providing how all of these tools fit in, (2) step by step encouragement and (3) the community to see that the struggles are real and that I'm not alone AND to see how other's mindsets were shifted so that it helped shift mine (in some non-cognitive way -- bizarro!)

The ability to move from VISION TO ACTION. 

the GUARANTEE

This program is not cheap. It is not designed to be. The faculty we've worked with have experienced radical change in their careers – submitting grants in a matter of weeks, securing institutional support against all prior precedent, 3x’ing their productivity, reclaiming a clarity and joy in their careers that is priceless – they know our methods work.

However (at this stage) you don’t know that they will work for you. To give you some comfort, we are prepared to let you enroll and leave ✌🏾- if it’s not for you. If you enroll in Get That Grant, you implement everything you commit to (as guided by our process), and you don’t see any transformation or progress in the first 30 days, we will refund your investment in full and you get to keep everything you learned, templates and all. 

Simple as that. You come in fully committed, do the work, and you will start to see results immediately. 

👍🏾 Sound good?

Let US coach you to a radically different experience of your career.


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Unlike other coaching programs, we understand power dynamics and what it's like to be a high-achieving 'only.' We are dialed into the needs of those of us juggling clinic, surgery, research, kids, and a million other things. 
There is no time wasted – no fluff. 
All high-quality, applicable content - week in, week out. 
This is not passive learning while you wait for change to happen. We go from theory to action in real time, with me supporting you every step of the way. 

No more playing small. 
We can't wait to work with you.

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