BGL: Bold Growth & Leadership formerly Bossy Girl Leadership

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Bossy Girl Leadership was born through disruption. After a car accident that changed me, I had to fight to be heard. In an attempt to quiet me, a neurologist called me “bossy.” He meant it as dismissal. I received it as a calling.

Bossy Girl will always be my origin story. My fire. The moment I decided leaders didn’t need permission to belong in rooms they weren’t invited into. I remember introducing myself as The Bossy Girl and watching people laugh — not cruelly, but uncomfortably. Unsure whether to applaud… or brace themselves.

I smiled, because “bossy” was never the insult they thought it was.
It was bravery. It was voice. It was the refusal to shrink.

Bossy Girl became a movement — one that reminded leaders they weren’t too much; they were enough. That strength and grace were never opposites.  I will always be proud of that.

But origins are not destinations, so I pivoted. More than twenty years ago, I had a mentor. John (JP) Phillips hired me for one reason: professional courage — the ability to speak truth to power responsibly. He is analytical., introverted., left-brained. When leadership is rooted in service, difference becomes strength.