Join This Groundbreaking Study for Black Women Leaders

What fuels your ambition? What drains your energy? How do your relationships—personal, professional, platonic, or romantic—support or challenge your growth as a Black woman in leadership?

These are the questions at the heart of a powerful new global research study led by Dr. Kerry Mitchell Brown, and your voice is needed.

Black women around the world are invited to participate in a 30-minute confidential study exploring how our personal relationships affect our professional lives. Whether you’re navigating corporate culture, building a business, leading a movement, or balancing multiple roles across continents, your insight is invaluable. This is more than a survey—it’s a chance to be heard, to shape revolutionary leadership frameworks, and to help redefine how success is studied, understood, and supported.

Take the survey here: 

Why This Study Matters

Across industries and regions, Black women continue to lead and innovate—often in environments not designed with us in mind. While we’re celebrated for our resilience, we are rarely asked how we feel, how we sustain ourselves, or how our personal connections influence our professional capacity.

Dr. Kerry Mitchell Brown’s research aims to change that.

This study, designed specifically for Black women of African, Caribbean, and diasporic descent, asks us to reflect deeply:

• How do our closest relationships affect how we lead?
• When do our bonds fuel our brilliance—and when do they burden it?
• Are we able to show up fully in our professional lives without sacrificing connection, rest, or authenticity?

The results will help shape evidence-based strategies, frameworks, and resources rooted in our actual lived experiences—not assumptions or generalizations. This is the kind of research that doesn’t just study Black women—it honors us.

Meet the Woman Behind the Research

Dr. Kerry Mitchell Brown is a globally respected cultural architect, racial equity strategist, and founder of kmb Consultancy. With a Ph.D. in Organizations and Management, an MBA, and a background in finance, she has held leadership roles in Fortune 100 companies, higher education, and nonprofit organizations. She bridges deep academic expertise with real-world systems change.

But her work is anything but conventional. Dr. Brown is known for her unapologetic approach to liberation, radical self-care, and cultural intelligence. She is deeply committed to redefining what power and leadership look like—especially for Black women.

“Too often, we are conditioned to lead through performance and perfectionism,” Dr. Brown says. “But liberation demands that we lead from our truth, not in spite of it.”

Through her RISE Framework—Redefine Success, Innovate Disruption, Synergize Roles, Evolve Continuously—she encourages Black women to lead as they are, not as the system expects them to be. Her consulting work spans boardrooms and grassroots initiatives alike, but this research project takes her mission a step further: building collective data that reflects our stories, our brilliance, and our needs.

The Data We’re Missing

The lack of targeted research on Black women’s professional lives is not just an oversight—it’s a systemic gap. Consider this:

Black women are the most educated demographic in the U.S., earning more degrees proportionally than any other group (National Center for Education Statistics, 2023).

Yet, fewer than 2% of C-suite roles in corporate America are held by Black women, despite our academic and professional accomplishments (LeanIn.org & McKinsey, 2023).

Studies show that Black women experience the highest rates of workplace burnout and racialized stress, compounded by the emotional labor of being “the only one” in many spaces (American Psychological Association, 2022).

Most research on leadership and organizational success does not account for cultural context, community dynamics, or relational challenges specific to Black women.

That’s why your voice in this study is vital. The insights will be used to design new frameworks for leadership development, wellness strategies, and culturally intelligent workplace practices that reflect how Black women actually live and lead.

How to Participate

Dr. Brown’s study is open to Black women from across the African diaspora—whether you’re based in Lagos, London, Kingston, Accra, Toronto, Port of Spain, or New York. The online survey is anonymous, takes approximately 30 minutes to complete, and offers space to reflect honestly on the interplay between your personal relationships and professional path.

Ready to contribute? Start the survey here: 

You don’t have to prepare anything in advance—just bring your truth. Your story could help shape new paradigms of leadership that make room for authenticity, wholeness, and community care.

And after you take it, share the link with your sisters, colleagues, and networks. Imagine the power of our collective voice, documented and activated for lasting change.

Let’s Lead This Together

At About Her Culture, we believe in the power of African and Caribbean women to transform every space we enter. We also believe that our leadership doesn’t exist in isolation—it’s shaped by the people we love, the systems we challenge, and the care we give to ourselves and each other.

Dr. Kerry Mitchell Brown’s research is not just timely—it’s necessary. It’s about us, for us, and led by one of us.

Add your voice. Shape the future.

Take the survey now: 

Because we rise further when we rise together.