About The Designed Presence™
I Didn't Start This Business Because of Fashion.
I started it because of women.
For more than 25 years, I have helped organizations navigate growth, transformation, and change. As a strategic people and operations leader, my work has centered on helping businesses align who they are with how they operate. When systems, culture, leadership, and values are aligned, organizations thrive. When they are not, people feel the disconnect.
Over time, I realized the same thing happens to women.
Especially women over 40.
We spend decades building careers, raising families, caring for others, overcoming obstacles, and becoming everything everyone else needs us to be. Somewhere along the way, many of us wake up and realize the woman in the mirror no longer reflects the woman we've become.
Not because we've failed.
Because we've evolved.
My Own Journey
Like many of the women I work with, I understand what it feels like to navigate major life transitions while trying to maintain confidence, presence, and a sense of self.
I understand what it means to carry responsibility, manage expectations, and continue showing up professionally even when life is changing personally.
I know what it feels like to look successful on paper while quietly questioning whether your reflection still represents who you are today.
That experience became the foundation of The Designed Presence™.
It's More Than Fashion
Long before The Designed Presence™ existed, I founded Curvy Chix Chariot™, one of the nation's first mobile fashion boutiques dedicated to plus-size women. The business was featured in publications including the The Washington Post, Black Enterprise, NPR, Ebony, and Essence.
At the time, fashionable plus-size clothing was difficult to find in stores. Most options were limited, uninspiring, or available only online.
What I witnessed inside those dressing rooms changed me.
Women would walk in unsure, frustrated, and often critical of themselves. Then they would step into outfits they never would have chosen on their own.
I watched shoulders straighten, smiles appear, and confidence return.
Sometimes there were tears.
Often there was a moment when a woman would look at herself and say, "I didn't know I could look like this."
What struck me wasn't the clothing, it was what happened inside of her.
Those experiences taught me that style is never just about clothes. It is about identity. It is about confidence. It is about permission. It is about seeing yourself differently.
Today, I combine two worlds that have shaped my career.
The first is my background in organizational transformation, where I help companies align their operations, culture, leadership, and values to create sustainable success.
The second is my experience helping women reconnect with their confidence through style and self-expression.
The Designed Presence™ brings those worlds together.
Just as I help organizations identify gaps between who they say they are and how they operate, I help women identify the gaps between who they have become and how they are showing up in the world.
Because alignment isn't just for businesses.
It's for women, too.
I believe your wardrobe should support your identity, not compete with it.
I believe confidence grows when what you feel inside is reflected on the outside.
I believe women deserve to be seen as they are today, not who they were twenty years ago.
Most of all, I believe that becoming visible again isn't about changing who you are.
It's about allowing the woman you've become to finally take up space.
Welcome to The Designed Presence™.
Where style, identity, and presence align.