When I first launched The Corporate Sister years ago, it was just a small blog — a space where I could share my journey as a woman navigating the corporate world, motherhood, and purpose. What I didn’t realize then was that I was starting a movement — one rooted in sisterhood, truth, and transformation.
Over the years, the conversations on this platform have evolved. Women have shared their challenges, their triumphs, and their hopes. One theme kept coming up again and again — the desire not just for inspiration, but for infrastructure: a real, supportive system that helps women thrive in their work, their wealth, and their lives.
That’s why I founded The Corporate Sister Foundation — a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping working women and mothers build sustainable careers and lives through community, education, and empowerment.
Why We Created The Corporate Sister Foundation
The truth is, the world of work was not designed with women in mind. For decades, women have been adapting, stretching, and pushing against systems never meant to support them.
But the tides are shifting. We’re in a moment where women are not just participating in the workforce — we’re redesigning it.
The Corporate Sister Foundation exists to turn that redesign into reality. We’re here to make work — and life — sustainable for women. Not just in words, but in systems, tools, and sisterhood.
Our Mission: Building Sustainable Careers, Wealth, and Legacies
At the Foundation, our mission is simple but powerful: To help women build sustainable careers and lives that align with their purpose, potential, and peace.
We do this through three core pillars:
1. Career: Helping women design fulfilling, purpose-aligned careers — not just chase titles.
2. Motherhood: Supporting working mothers as they balance ambition, care, and rest without guilt.
3. Finance: Empowering women to build financial independence and generational wealth through practical education and mindset work.
4.Faith: Grounding women in the truth of their faith and spiritual growth.
Because women shouldn’t have to choose between their success and their sanity.
Our Vision: From Conversation to Action
The Corporate Sister Foundation is more than a vision — it’s a movement. We’re building programs that meet women where they are, whether that’s climbing the corporate ladder, launching a business, or redefining their work-life balance.
Here’s a glimpse of what’s coming:
• The Sister Career Circle — A monthly virtual space where women can connect, reflect, and grow together.
• The Feminine Finance Lab — Interactive workshops teaching financial wellness and wealth-building from a woman’s perspective.
• The Working Mom Reset Series — Tools and sessions to help mothers rediscover balance, purpose, and rest.
Each of these initiatives is designed to help women thrive — not just survive — in the modern world of work.
What We’re Trying to Accomplish
At its heart, The Corporate Sister Foundation is about creating sustainable success — the kind that doesn’t come at the expense of our health, our families, or our peace.
We want to see a world where women:
• Build careers aligned with their values. • Thrive as professionals and mothers without apology. • Take control of their finances and create generational wealth. • Feel supported, seen, and empowered — not burned out and isolated.
We’re creating a new blueprint for women’s work — one rooted in purpose, equity and community.
How You Can Join Us
If you believe, as we do, that the future of work should work for women, there are many ways to get involved:
• Subscribe to The Sister Brief — our weekly newsletter for career, motherhood, and finance inspiration.
• How Can You Join Us?
1️⃣ Become a Founding Supporter: Your support—big or small—will fuel our mission. You can donate HERE !
2️⃣ Join Our Community: Be part of our new volunteer programs, mentorship initiatives, and leadership circles. CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE WAITLIST!
3️⃣ Share the News: Forward this post o a friend or colleague who believes in empowering women.
A Final Word
This new chapter of The Corporate Sister is more than an expansion — it’s a calling. It’s about turning years of conversation, struggle, and triumph into something tangible that can truly change lives.
Because when women support each other, careers flourish — and so do lives.
Welcome to The Corporate Sister Foundation. Welcome to sustainable success — built in sisterhood.
When what you can see on the outside is not exactly encouraging, or remotely aligned with your hopes and expectations, it’s hard to have faith, whatever you may call your own faith. When the gap between what you can see and what you desperately want to believe widens so much your vision of the future gets blurry, believing becomes a hard target to reach…Yet paradoxically enough, it’s the very faith that tends to be compromised in times of challenge that is acutely needed to go through these times…
Like many, I’ve certainly struggled with keeping my faith intact in times of trouble. As we currently face the coronavirus pandemic, keeping the faith is especially challenging, in light of the monumental threats to our health, both physical and mental, as well as our economic stability.
However, despite some of the impossible challenges we may face, keeping the faith is essential to not only surviving, but also thriving in times of crisis. I’ve also learnt that one of the keys to doing so is to believe beyond what you can see, and re-visit your faith in a positive, productive but also forgiving way:
What’s your faith anchored in?
Crisis forces us to question and re-focus on our core beliefs and assumptions about life. It stops us in our busy and familiar tracks, and stills us enough to consider what we’ve been anchoring ourselves, lives, careers, and ultimately faith in. I know I’ve struggled with this as I’ve had to seriously ask myself during this coronavirus pandemic when many are losing their jobs and others are working under different, remote circumstances, how much of my own faith is based on my own circumstances.
What’s your faith anchored in? Is it anchored in your own self-worth, your spirituality, your career, your current socio-economic condition, or any other factor? If so, how is your faith anchor holding up in times of crisis?
Re-direct the core of your faith
Questioning what your faith is anchored in also prompts you to re-direct it. For some, it may mean reinforcing its core and re-directing it towards your current circumstances. For others, it may mean taking an entirely new direction when it comes to your beliefs, and sometimes even doubting your faith. For me, it has been a matter of focusing on my inner belief process, as opposed to its outer manifestations.
How are you re-directing the core of your faith in times of crisis? How are you modifying or developing your key assumptions or beliefs when crisis hits?
Reframe your faith
You may have to re-frame your faith in a more practical way to address your current circumstances, especially during challenging times. What happens when you can no longer practice your faith as you are used to, when places of worship are closed and large regroupments of people are prohibited? What do you resort to when you have to worship and praise differently? How do you adjust to your faith looking and feeling different in the face of new events?
During this coronavirus crisis when large groupings are people are prohibited, what I’ve been used to in terms of gathering in common places to worship has been fundamentally changed. As a result, I’ve had to re-frame my faith in a more practical way, and find ways and spaces to worship in my own home with my family.
How are you experiencing your faith in times of crisis?
Being a woman of faith at work can come with its sets of blessings, but also its fair share of challenges. If you’re one, you may already know this, and know it all too well. Many workplaces are not observant of faith-related practices, and may also be unfortunately dealing with religious prejudice in different forms. This is in addition to being subjected to the scrutiny and negative opinions of co-workers and managers who may not fully understand the commitments and realities that come with your faith. This is even more complex with the intersectionality of gender, religion, and sometimes race as well.
As a Christian working woman, it’s been important for me to understand how I could thrive in my faith in all areas of my life, including in my work. From my own experiences and chatting with other women of faith, I’ve learnt three (3) particularly powerful tips for women of faith to thrive in the workplace, not in spite of, but with the fullness of their faith:
Understand that others may not understand your faith
Faith is very much a personal matter, although it affects all the external areas of one’s life. It’s also a part of one’s life that others may not adhere to, understand or wish to have anything to do with. As such, it’s crucial to make peace with the fact that others around you in the workplace, from your co-workers to your managers, may not be familiar with this part of your experience.
Not only will this save you a lot of heartache when faced at times with any form of insensitivity or push-back, but it will also help you extend grace to others. This is certainly not an excuse for callous behavior on the part of anyone, but an invitation to consider the many reasons, from backgrounds to education, why those you share an office space with think differently than you do when it comes to faith.
Speak up as to your faith-related needs
In the same token, it’s also important for you to voice your needs as related to your faith. I have a Muslim friend who makes sure to build into her calendar religious holidays and ask for those days off well in advance. While Christian holidays may be recognized in the common calendar, other religious holidays may not be, hence the need to speak up and express your needs. As a woman of faith, you may also need added flexibility to attend faith-cased events or to prepare for holidays and events.
The point is, honoring your faith at work is also a matter of not repressing your needs and commitments, while still keeping on excelling in your work. You don’t have to struggle unnecessarily or silence yourself, when a simple conversation may afford you the time and flexibility you may need.
Use your faith as a bridge, not a wall
Faith of all kinds and forms should serve as a bridge to bring people together, rather than a wall to separate individuals. Many, if not most faiths, have in common a foundation of love and acceptance of others. As a woman of faith in the workplace, standing on this foundation is the most powerful way to thrive and help others thrive as well. Whether through inclusive and accepting teamwork, or by treating your co-workers and managers with grace, displaying the inclusive foundation of your faith can go a long way.
Use it also as an opportunity to educate those around you who may not know about your faith. I would rather someone ask questions than incorrectly assume anything about myself or my faith. This is a wonderful opportunity to create more understanding and better communication in and outside of the workplace. And isn’t it the goal after all?
And now I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. (John 13:34)
Do all your work in love. (1 Corinthians 16:14)
Foster diversity and inclusiveness for others
Respecting differences in faith in the workplace is part of fostering diversity and inclusiveness for everyone. Your experience as a woman of faith at work can help improve the experiences of other women like yourself. This can be done by starting a conversation around it, expressing yours and others’ similar needs, or suggesting educational opportunities around this. You are never too powerless to change your environment.
The more we all know about religious diversity, the more we’re able to create and nurture an inclusive environment for all. This may very start with you…
Are you a woman of faith in the workplace? How have you been thriving in your faith at work?
