REAL. DIVERSE. LEADERSHIP
CONTRIBUTING ESSAYIST IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING ANTHOLOGY YOU ARE YOUR BEST THING: VULNERABILITY, SHAME RESILIENCE AND THE BLACK EXPERIENCE
Dr. Jessica Jamese Williams Biography
Jessica Jamese Williams, PhD is a Black feminist artist and educator dedicated to cultivating authenticity as a means to empowerment. Following a decade-long career in higher education, Dr. J now works primarily as a client-proclaimed Discomfort Doula. Dr. J’s work often focuses on helping individuals and organizations process uncomfortable elements that are often barriers to connection, engagement, belonging and inclusion. Most notably, Dr. J contributed an essay entitled Black Surrender Within the Ivory Tower to the New York Times best selling anthology, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame and the Black Experience. As a result, Dr. J has become an in demand leadership professional with specific attention to empowerment through identity celebration.
Dr. J is CEO and co-owner of Golden Peaches— an empowerment centered wellness resource created to provide coaching interventions for individuals and organizations. Dr. J facilitates workshops, leads keynotes and leadership panels that aid in individuals becoming more authentic and aligned through identity work, comprehensive wellness, and creative expression. Dr. Williams’ most recent contribution to the field of authenticity and identity is her workbook Inviting Your Whole Self to the Table: An Interactive Tool to Help Individuals Feel Empowered in Who You Are, As You Are, Wherever You Are.
Dr. Williams is available for keynote speaking, workshop facilitation, diversity and intersectional identity training, coaching, expository writing and dialogue moderation, for more information visit www.JessicaJamese.com.
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LEADERSHIP STUDIES, PHD
PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING, M.ED
PSYCHOLOGY, BA
Dr. Jessica Jamese Williams is available for keynote speaking, workshop facilitation, diversity and intersectional identity trainings and expository writing and dialogue moderation on the following topics:
You Are Your Best Thing
Discussion and Dialogue unpacking my contributing essay Black Surrender In The Ivory Tower
Maintaining identity integrity within the academy
Manifesting and scripting as a means of authorship and self empowerment.
Fatness as a Social Identity
The Fat+Women+Leadership Research Project
Plus-Size Leadership
Re-Shaping Leadership
Feminist Leadership
Reducing Shame to Foster Connection
Gender Identity and Leadership Roles
Combating Imposter Syndrome and EmpoweringHer
Diversity, Inclusion and Intersections
How to make space for competing social identities in various social contexts
Having difficult conversations in times of crisis and change
Getting "woke" and staying "woke": holding each other accountable for social justice
Mental Health and Wellness
Being an advocate for self-care, health and wellness
Owning your diagnosis/es
Learning how to heal yourself and become your own biggest advocate
Developing Authenticity and Congruence
Bringing your whole self to the table
Seeing facets as fractals
Integrating and creating inclusive practices for "dichotomous" identities
Exploring the paradox of divergence and connection
For group purchase of Inviting Your Whole Self to the Table Workbook please contact Dr. J. directly via GoldenPeachesLLC@gmail.com
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Dr. Jessica Jamese Williams has served as an invited speaker, workshop facilitator, or contributor to the following organizations and brands:
