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LaKesha Womack

Leadership Development SpecialistWomack Consulting Group

Charlotte, NC

Member Since November 2020

Skills

Emotional Intelligence Training
Professional Development
Coaching

About

LaKesha is the Owner and Lead Consultant with Womack Consulting Group. The firm provides Brand Management, Leadership Training, Strategic Planning, and Political Consulting to clients worldwide through seminars and one-on-one consultations with professionals, not for profit organizations, churches, colleges/universities, and businesses. She has served as a business development presenter for numerous Chambers of Commerce and professional groups and an Executive Coach for the Black Enterprise Entrepreneur Conference and the Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit. In addition to working with small business owners to start and grow their business, LaKesha specializes in working with newly formed teams, fractured teams, and boards of directors to teach leadership and professional development strategies to enhance communication, increase emotional intelligence, and improve organizational effectiveness. LaKesha has a bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University and is a graduate of the Campaign School at Yale University. As a Forbes’ Coaches Council member, LaKesha contributed more than forty business tips to the Forbes.com Expert Panel forum. LaKesha is the published author of 16 books and has been featured in numerous publications and interviews providing financial literacy tips, business advice, and community engagement strategies. She hosts quarterly retreats for busy professionals to reset and refocus on their personal, professional, and leadership goals. LaKesha is also the founder of #RethinkingChurch Strategies, LLC, a social impact organization working with churches to increase engagement among their congregations and communities.

Published content

17 Ways to Transform Workspaces to Foster Creativity and Collaboration

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Some simple changes to your office space can unlock greater potential and productivity for your team. The design and layout of a company's office space is an often-overlooked factor in the creativity and collaborative spirit of a work environment. By incorporating flexible work areas that encourage spontaneous meetings and designing spaces that blend comfort with technology, the physical office environment can significantly impact employee engagement and productivity. Below, 17 Newsweek Expert Forum members discuss practical ways leaders can enhance their office spaces for productivity. Here's why they believe these changes can lead to a more dynamic, collaborative and successful business.

19 Simple Strategies for Finding Calm in the Storm of 'Busyness'

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When you're feeling overwhelmed, try one of these go-to strategies to ground yourself. Work schedules can quickly become overwhelming, leaving professionals feeling lost in a sea of tasks and commitments. A set of strategies to find a calming center and regain control can be helpful when navigating the feeling of "busyness" that plagues so many professionals. To help, 19 Newsweek Expert Forum members share methods they use to help conquer stress and overwhelm and get themselves back on track. Read on for their practical steps to declutter your mind and schedule so you can move forward with clarity and purpose.

How to Strategically Decide Which Business Tasks Should Get Outsourced

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While outsourcing business tasks can be a great way to stay connected to core business competencies, implementing these processes must be done with careful consideration. A growing organization requires leaders to rethink current internal processes and make changes that benefit the business in the long run. While keeping every task in-house made sense as a small business with limited resources, attempting to maintain the same setup as a midsize or large business can often end up decreasing productivity, lowering the quality of your offerings and moving the entire team away from core competencies. Outsourcing business tasks can be an easy way to free up more time and refocus the team’s attention on efforts that move the business forward. However, leaders must proceed carefully and have a plan to ensure solid, usable work is produced. To help leaders get a better idea of how to go about implementing outsourcing with their organizations, nine Newsweek Expert Forum members each share one strategic method to leverage when deciding what work should be outsourced.

18 Seemingly Harmless Habits That Can Negatively Impact Your Business Success

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Viewing entrepreneurship as a process of trial and error can help leaders ensure they take the time to reflect on how the business is performing as a whole. While starting business requires a considerable amount of preparation, there’s no substitute for the amount of experience entrepreneurs gain from actually running a business. As leaders begin putting systems in place and setting the general ways of how the business will operate, certain habits become ingrained that cause more harm than good in the long run. Being so directly involved in everything the business does can prevent leaders from seeing the larger picture and the negative impact of these ingrained habits on the business. To help leaders more readily identify and change problematic behavior, 18 Newsweek Expert Forum members each share one seemingly harmless habit in a business leader that might in fact be hindering their success.

20 Specific Ways Executives Can Reenergize Mid-Level Leaders

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Creating a workplace environment where all employees feel able to communicate their needs is critical to retaining your team. Every business goes through busy and stressful times. While many organizations are able to navigate and overcome these hurdles, it can result in leaders experiencing burnout. This is especially true for mid-level leaders as they tend to direct many different moving parts and interact with individual team members. Fortunately, with the proactive support of the executive team, there are tactics that can be utilized to mitigate or prevent burnout and reinvigorate mid-level leaders. To help, 20 Newsweek Expert Forum members each share one way the executive team can help mid-level leaders get reenergized when they are feeling burned out.

13 Steps for Leaders to Take When Making Internal Cultural Changes

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To make lasting, sustainable change, leaders have to be willing to throughly examine their existing culture and make needed changes. A business’s culture is its organizational backbone. As potential customers and employees have become increasingly interested in learning what a business is all about beyond its product or service offerings, culture can set an organization apart from its competitors on the market.  Leaders, however, have to be mindful of the culture that is created and preserved. Maintaining the wrong kind of culture is an action that can devastate a brand long term, but the damage can be reduced if leaders seriously commit to making a change. To help, 13 Newsweek Expert Forum members each share one essential step leaders must take when they begin the work of cultural change.

Company details

Womack Consulting Group

Company bio

LaKesha Womack founded Womack Consulting Group in 2005. After speaking with a friend who was interning for a top-five consulting firm, she realized that many small business owners lacked access to consultants with the capacity to assist them with operating more efficiently. Using the skills that she attained while working as a Financial Adviser, Retail Store Manager, and Restaurant Trainer, LaKesha recognized that the products/services that each business offers differs, but all businesses require sound human resource policies, strong accounting practices, and documented policies and procedures to be successful. In the past fifteen years, Womack Consulting Group has worked with clients across the globe in various industries, including technology, publishing, retail, transportation, politics, and media. The firm listens to each client's needs to understand their objectives and creates a customized strategic plan to achieve their goals. Through regular strategy sessions, clients are held accountable for doing the work on their business while relying on the expertise of Womack Consulting Group to guide their decision-making.

Industry

Business

Area of focus

Social Media Management
Virtual Event Hosting
Self Publishing Consulting

Company size

2 - 10