Invite Chanell Gladney to Speak

Stronger Leaders. Healthier Cultures. Sustainable Transformation.

Chanell Gladney is a Trauma-Informed Leadership Strategist, Executive Leadership Coach, Author, Speaker, and Founder & CEO of FlourishHER Enterprises, LLC. Known as The FlourishHER Confidence Coach™, Chanell equips leaders, high-achieving women, executives, organizations, and faith-based communities to move From Survival to Flourishing™ by strengthening identity, rebuilding confidence, interrupting survival-driven patterns, and developing healthier, more sustainable ways to lead.

Her work sits at the intersection of trauma-informed leadership, executive strategy, workplace resilience, confidence, identity, organizational culture, emotional intelligence, faith, and lived experience. Chanell does not simply inspire audiences to become more resilient. She helps them understand what may be shaping how they lead, how adversity can influence confidence, communication, boundaries, decision-making, relationships, and culture, and what must change for leadership to become healthier, stronger, and more intentional.

With more than 14 years of healthcare experience across clinical and administrative environments, Chanell brings real-world leadership insight into rooms where people are navigating pressure, change, responsibility, high expectations, and complex human dynamics. Her work is further informed by formal education in psychology, entrepreneurial leadership, executive coaching, authorship, trauma-informed principles, and lived experience.

As a survivor of domestic violence, narcissistic abuse, and significant adversity, Chanell understands what it means to continue performing while rebuilding internally. Her story is not the entirety of her expertise; it gives depth to it. She transforms lived experience into strategic insight, practical frameworks, and powerful conversations that help people understand not only what they survived, but how survival can shape how they think, work, trust, decide, relate, and lead.

Her message is clear:

Survival may explain how you learned to lead, but it does not have to determine how you lead forward.

From Survival to Flourishing™

At the center of Chanell’s work is From Survival to Flourishing™, a transformational leadership philosophy that challenges people to move beyond endurance and examine what survival may have cost them.

Flourishing requires more than performance. It requires awareness, identity, confidence, boundaries, emotional intelligence, resilience, alignment, and the willingness to stop allowing yesterday’s survival strategies to dictate tomorrow’s leadership decisions.

Chanell helps audiences move beyond simply functioning and begin leading with greater clarity, confidence, self-awareness, courage, resilience, and intentionality.

The goal is not simply to accomplish more.

The goal is to lead differently.

Signature Speaking Experiences

Chanell’s flagship organizational keynote, The Hidden Cost of Leading From Survival Mode, explores what happens when high-performing leaders are succeeding externally while operating internally from chronic stress, burnout, fear, hyper-independence, diminished trust, adversity, or survival-driven patterns. Audiences examine how these patterns can affect communication, confidence, decision-making, delegation, conflict, relationships, team dynamics, psychological safety, and organizational culture.

Trauma-Informed Leadership in Practice helps leaders understand how adversity and chronic stress can influence human behavior without turning workplaces into therapy environments. The experience equips leaders with greater awareness around communication, employee experience, trust, resilience, psychological safety, organizational culture, and responsible leadership response.

Confidence After Survival Mode™ speaks directly to leaders, professionals, high-achieving women, and survivors rebuilding confidence, identity, self-trust, boundaries, and leadership capacity after adversity, difficult relationships, major transitions, professional disruption, or deeply challenging seasons.

Domestic Violence, Trauma & Survival Mode: What Leaders Need to Understand helps organizations better understand how domestic violence, coercive dynamics, and trauma may intersect with workplace performance, safety, confidence, communication, employee experience, and leadership while maintaining clear professional boundaries and appropriate referral practices.

Recognizing Narcissistic Abuse, Coercive Control & High-Conflict Dynamics is a specialized educational experience exploring how manipulation, coercive control, narcissistic abuse, and high-conflict dynamics can affect identity, confidence, boundaries, decision-making, relationships, and professional functioning.

For women’s leadership audiences, Chanell also speaks on identity restoration, rebuilding confidence after adversity, burnout, boundaries, high achievement, leadership after disruption, and what it means to flourish beyond survival.

For churches, ministries, and Christian conferences, Chanell can integrate biblical identity, restoration, purpose, faith, resilience, leadership, and spiritual principles into customized speaking experiences such as From Survival to Flourishing™, Leading While Healing, Called Beyond What You Survived, Faith, Identity & Leadership, and Burnout Is Not Your Birthright.

Who Chanell Serves

Chanell’s speaking experiences are designed for corporations, hospitals and healthcare systems, leadership teams, Human Resources and People & Culture departments, Organizational Development and Learning & Development teams, professional associations, universities, nonprofit organizations, domestic violence organizations, survivor-serving and advocacy organizations, women’s leadership conferences, high-achieving women, entrepreneurs, churches, ministries, faith-based organizations, executive retreats, leadership summits, masterminds, professional conferences, podcasts, media platforms, and other aligned audiences.

Whether the room is filled with executives, healthcare leaders, emerging leaders, nonprofit professionals, survivors, advocates, entrepreneurs, ministry leaders, or high-achieving women, Chanell brings a powerful combination of strategic leadership insight, trauma-informed perspective, lived experience, faith, practical application, and transformational teaching.

What Audiences Leave With

Chanell’s goal is not to create a powerful moment that disappears when the event ends. Her work is designed to create movement beyond the room.

Audiences leave with stronger awareness of the patterns shaping how they lead, greater clarity around confidence and identity, practical tools for resilience and emotional intelligence, deeper understanding of trauma-informed leadership, stronger awareness of communication and organizational culture, more intentional approaches to boundaries and decision-making, and clear strategies for moving from reactive patterns toward healthier, sustainable leadership.

For survivor-centered audiences, her work helps people understand how adversity can affect identity, confidence, boundaries, trust, relationships, and professional functioning without reducing them to what happened to them.

For faith-based audiences, Chanell connects restoration, identity, purpose, leadership, and flourishing to biblical truth and the belief that what someone survived does not have the authority to cancel what God has called them to become.

Speaking & Leadership Engagements

Chanell is available for keynote presentations, corporate leadership events, healthcare leadership programs, professional conferences and summits, workshops, leadership development sessions, executive sessions, women’s leadership events, nonprofit and community programs, survivor advocacy events, domestic violence conferences, church and ministry events, retreats, masterminds, panels, fireside conversations, podcasts, media interviews, and customized organizational learning experiences.

Presentations may be customized based on event objectives, industry, leadership level, audience composition, organizational needs, event theme, desired outcomes, session format, survivor-centered considerations, and faith integration where appropriate.

Author, Media & Thought Leadership

Chanell is a published co-author of Dear Little Girl in Me, an Amazon #1 New Release, where she shares part of her journey through childhood trauma, adversity, identity, resilience, and restoration.

Her media and guest appearances include VoyageDallas Magazine, The Women CANDO Show, Conversations with Celena, and Healing Conversations with Carla.

Through speaking, media, writing, coaching, consulting, and leadership development, Chanell continues expanding the conversation around what becomes possible when people stop allowing survival to define the way they lead.

Invite Chanell Into the Conversation

If your audience is ready to move beyond surface-level motivation and engage in a deeper conversation about leadership, confidence, identity, trauma-informed transformation, resilience, workplace culture, faith, adversity, or rebuilding after survival, Chanell Gladney brings a perspective designed to challenge, equip, and move people forward.

Speaking inquiries are thoughtfully reviewed according to mission alignment, availability, audience needs, event scope, and engagement requirements.

Professional Disclaimer

FlourishHER Enterprises, LLC provides professional leadership development, coaching, consulting, speaking, and faith-informed educational experiences. Services and speaking engagements are not a substitute for licensed mental-health counseling, medical treatment, legal advice, crisis intervention, or other regulated professional services.