New Models of Leadership Development Emerging by Christopher D. Thomas • President inMMGroup For years, leadership development was treated primarily as a knowledge problem. Organizations invested in seminars, certifications, executive coaching, and academic frameworks built to expand what leaders know. Increasingly, however, a different realization is taking hold across business, civic, and institutional environments: leadership...
Women of Momentum Honoree • Chief Judge Cassandra Kirk There are leaders whose work is visible in headlines, and there are leaders whose impact is felt in the daily rhythms of people’s lives. Chief Judge Cassandra Kirk belongs to the latter category – the kind of public servant whose leadership does not seek attention, yet...
Tangela Q. Parker, Contributing Writer | Women’s Health Commentary My mentor was 50 when she died from heart disease.She was accomplished, disciplined, and deeply committed to the people around her. Nothing about her life suggested fragility. Yet her passing forced a difficult question into the open: how can a condition that claims more women’s lives...
Women of Momentum 2025 Honoree Saher does not lead with noise. She leads with truth. In a year obsessed with acceleration, Saher chose consistency. In a culture that rewards spectacle, she chose integrity. And in a creative economy that often confuses visibility with value, she built momentum the quieter, more enduring way, by staying present...
Women of Momentum 2025 Honoree Tiffany H. Gouch, PhD did not spend 2025 chasing visibility. She spent it arriving in herself. While much of the world measured leadership by acceleration, Tiffany chose something rarer and far more exacting, embodiment. Her leadership this year was quiet, deliberate, and unmistakably grounded. It was not marked by noise,...
There are leaders who announce themselves by sheer volume, then there are leaders who alter the atmosphere simply by remaining steady. Pamela Denise Wallace belongs unapologetically to the second category. Her presence is not a flare but a compass, calibrated through decades of lived experience, legal mastery, and spiritual rootedness. In a year when momentum...
Women of Momentum 2025 Honoree There are leaders who move communities, and then there are leaders who move the conversation. Dr. Ritha Menon stepped into 2025 with a vision that refused to remain conceptual. She carried herself with the calm gravity of someone who understood that momentum is not generated by speed, but by alignment,...
By inCity Magazine Staff | inHERit Series After building and selling Curlkalon, she now shapes the internal architecture, clarity, and personal brand that will anchor her next chapter in civic and nonprofit leadership. When Shavone Riggins first stood in front of her mirror, frustrated with protective styles that never reflected the beauty she saw in...
By inCity Magazine Staff | inHERit Series When Akhona Ketwa speaks about endurance, she isn’t talking about medals. She’s talking about becoming. A triathlete, clinical psychology intern, and former lecturer, Akhona represents a new generation of African women who are redefining strength through movement, purpose, and mental wellness. Her journey is not one of arrival...
By inCity Magazine Staff Something remarkable is stirring in the world of women’s entrepreneurship, a movement that refuses to let women’s work fade into history’s margins. It’s called inHERit: The Women’s Brand Legacy Initiative, and its mission is as ambitious as it is necessary: to build one million women-led legacies. Launched through a powerful collaboration...