You are not lacking confidence. You are lacking a room.
Six seats. Six months. One council of women senior enough to tell you the truth, and disciplined enough to make you decide.
You are not lacking confidence.
You are lacking a room.
Six seats. Six months. One council of women senior enough to tell you the truth, and disciplined enough to make you decide.
You are not lacking confidence. You are lacking a room.
September 2026 – February 2027
WHAT NOBODY SAYS OUTLOUD
None of this shows up on
your performance review.
You make the call, then re-litigate it privately for three days.
You over-prepare for meetings you could walk into cold.
You are the most senior woman on the invitation and you still soften the sentence before you say it.
There is one decision that has been sitting untouched for four months, and you knew which one before you finished reading this line.
Everyone around you reports to you. There is no one left you can say this to.
You do not need more motivation. You need a room where the second sentence is the true one — and people at your level who will wait for it.
Cohort II · September 2026 – February 2027
The distinction matters, because it determines what you are expected to bring. In coaching, you arrive with a problem. Here, you arrive with a decision — and six women hold you to it until you name what you will do and by when.
BEFORE YOU SCROLL FURTHER
This is a council.
It is not a coaching program.
Cohort II · September 2026 – February 2027
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The goal is not to be right.
It is to move forward with clarity.
SCHARRELL JACKSON
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Thirty minutes in the chair.
It changes what you do on Monday.
THE HOT SEAT
Twice a cohort, the room turns to you. You have five minutes to state the situation, what is at risk, and the outcome you are trying to create. No slides. No history. Then the room goes to work — in this order, without exception.
Six sessions.
One full day in person.
No filler month.
SEPTEMBER 2026 - FEBRUARY 2027
Six sessions. No filler month.
Three hours a month, live. Reflection work before every session, execution work after. Session outlines are deliberately held back — they are in the Cohort II brief, and they change with the women in the room.
Also included: private group forum, replay vault, workbooks and templates, guest experts.
WHO LEADS THE ROOM
She has actually
held the seat.
She has actually held the seat.
Thirty-five years as CFO, COO and CAO, and a firm partner. Not a career speaker with a leadership vocabulary — a woman who carried the P&L, made the calls, and lived with them.
Her method is Endgame Excellence: every decision tested against the outcome you actually want, before you make it. It is the discipline the council runs on.
RECOGNITION & APPOINTMENTS
Los Angeles African American Vanguard Award
Woman of Courage Award
Farmers & Merchants Bank
Executive Leadership certificate
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Orange County Business Woman of the Year
Remarkable Women Award
2020
Dean's Advisory Board
UCI Paul Merage School of Business
POSITIONS, NOT PLATITUDES
Motivation is not the missing ingredient.
You should know how she thinks before you spend six months in a room with her. These are the three she gets pushback on most.
The things she will say in month
one that you will argue with.
You should know how she thinks before you spend six months in a room with her. These are the three she gets pushback on most.
Most hard decisions are not hard. They are unexamined.
Endgame Excellence in one line — every decision tested against the outcome you actually want, before you make it. Write the endgame honestly and most options eliminate themselves inside a minute. The difficulty was never the choice.
Advice is cheap. The question you have not been asked is not.
The hot seat opens with questions only — no solutions, no war stories, no one's own experience. It frustrates people for the first two sessions and it is the reason the third one works.
COHORT II • 6 SEATS
You already know the decision.
Come to the room and make it.
Tell us where you lead, what you are carrying, and why now. Scharrell reads every application herself.