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Tené Wells

Tene’s “Guiding Muse” coaching methodology is a comprehensive approach that not only addresses the immediate needs of the BIPOC community but also equips clients with the tools to make lasting changes.

About Tené

Through her coaching practice, Tene helps people create new lives, transform organizations, begin, and grow small businesses and initiate new community-led solutions. She believes we all have the power to create the lives we imagine if we open our hearts and minds to the possibility. When we do, we improve our capacity to create assets that build their own economic engines.

Tene is a BLACK Woman, born in a housing project to a teen mom, and her life experiences went far beyond the circumstances of her birth. At 8 years old, she read about Harriet Tubman. Tene was struck that, during the worst period of slavery, Harriet did not see herself as a slave. Tene began to understand that everyone has Harriet’s power. Once she learned the secret to living her best life, opportunities were endless. Tene’s life passion is to help us grow our capacity to create an economic engine to fund our passions. She has been a catalyst for change for individuals, organizations, and communities as they realize their full potential. With a reputation as a successful community organizer, fundraiser, entrepreneur, pacesetter, and executive leader. She has worked in corporations, nonprofits, and government, both nationally and internationally. She has traveled the world and met with many leaders, including Oprah, Desmond Tutu, and Prince.

Coaching

Work with Tené

Specialties:
  • BIPOC Leadership
    BIPOC Leadership Coaching offers tailored guidance and support for individuals from Black, Indigenous, and communities of color navigating the challenges of leadership. Empowering BIPOC professionals to unlock their full potential, coaches with this specialty address unique racialized experiences, foster authenticity and cultivate essential skills for success in inclusive and equitable leadership roles.
  • Emerging Leaders
    Coaching for emerging leaders offers tailored support and guidance to emerging leaders as they navigate their leadership journey. Focusing on developing essential leadership skills, building confidence, and overcoming challenges unique to young professionals, this coaching empowers early-career individuals to unlock their leadership potential and positively impact their organizations and communities.
  • Small Business / Nonprofit Entrepreneurship
    Business-focused coaching provides personalized guidance and strategies to help entrepreneurs and professionals achieve their business goals. Whether you're seeking to start a new venture, grow an existing business, or overcome challenges, a coach offers support, accountability, and expertise to maximize your success and fulfillment.
  • Career Journey Mapping
    Career journey mapping coaching is a personalized guidance service designed to help individuals navigate their career journey with clarity and confidence. Whether you're seeking to explore new career paths, advance in your current role, or make a career transition, a coach provides support, tools, and strategies to help you achieve your professional goals and realize your full potential.
  • Confidence
    Confidence coaching is focused on empowering individuals to build self-belief, assertiveness, and resilience. Through tailored strategies, support, and encouragement, coaches help clients overcome self-doubt, fear of failure, and limiting beliefs. By cultivating a positive self-image, mindset shifts, and skill development, coaching for confidence enables individuals to step into their power, pursue their goals with courage, and thrive in all aspects of life.
  • Retirement
    Retirement coaching offers personalized support and guidance to individuals navigating the transition into retirement. By addressing concerns, exploring aspirations, and creating a plan for this significant life change, coaches help clients embrace this new chapter with confidence, purpose, and fulfillment. Through strategic goal-setting, financial planning, and emotional preparation, coaching for retirement empowers individuals to make the most of their retirement years and live a fulfilling post-career life.
  • Manifestation & Abundance
    The manifestation and abundance coaching methodology focuses on coaching individuals to harness the power of their thoughts, beliefs, and actions to attract success, fulfillment, and prosperity into their lives. Through personalized guidance and techniques such as visualization, affirmations, and goal setting, coaches empower clients to overcome limiting beliefs, align with their desires, and cultivate a mindset of abundance to manifest their goals and create the life they desire.
  • Life Direction Mapping
    Life direction mapping is personalized guidance and support for individuals seeking clarity, purpose, and fulfillment. Through introspection, goal-setting, and action planning, coaches help clients identify their values, passions, and goals and create a roadmap for achieving them. By fostering self-awareness, confidence, and resilience, life direction mapping empowers individuals to navigate life transitions, overcome obstacles, and live authentically in alignment with their true aspirations and values.
  • C-Suite/Executive Guidance
    C-Suite/Executive guidance coaching is a specialized service designed to support senior leaders, executives, and high-potential individuals in maximizing their leadership potential and achieving professional goals. Through personalized guidance, feedback, and development strategies, coaches help clients enhance their leadership skills, navigate complex challenges, and drive organizational success.

Tené’s “Guiding Muse” coaching methodology is a comprehensive approach that not only
addresses the immediate needs of the BIPOC community but also equips clients with the tools to make lasting changes. It is an invitation to embark on a journey of personal discovery, strategic leadership, and impactful advocacy, with the goal of creating a more just and equitable Society.

Through years of experience navigating the challenges of being a Black woman in leadership in predominantly white organizations, Tené has honed her approach to coaching, specifically designed to meet the needs of BIPOC leaders. Tené’s coaching philosophy is based on this quote from Harriet Tubman, “I could have saved thousands — if only I’d been able to convince them they were slaves.” Tené is deeply committed to self-awareness, authentic leadership, and systemic change. Through understanding one’s own identity and the systems in which they operate, her clients can more effectively drive change within themselves and in their environments.

Working with Tene 

  • Tailor-made client agreements: Each coaching relationship begins with a detailed agreement that is customized to include the client’s expressed interests, goals, and objectives. This ensures a clear and mutual understanding of the expected journey and outcomes.
  • Interactive sessions: Tené offers 90-minute session packages that are designed to challenge and support clients in setting and pursuing their personal and professional ambitions. Each session incorporates discussions, strategic questioning, and actionable plans to facilitate real-world applications and progress.
  • Supplementary tools and activities:
    • Debrief forms: Post-session reflections help consolidate learning and plan the next steps.
    • Reading assignments and Journaling: These resources are selected to deepen insights into personal and professional development topics relevant to the client’s goals.
    • Visioning workshop: An intensive session aimed at helping clients visualize their future and map out strategies to achieve their vision.
    • Proprietary tools: Clients gain access to exclusive resources such as strategies for revenue diversification, transition and outplacement services, and strategic planning aids.
  • Flexible meeting options: Understanding the importance of accessibility, sessions can be conducted via virtual platforms or in-person, providing flexibility to accommodate varying client needs.

Expected results and behavioral changes

  • Enhanced self-awareness: Clients will develop a deeper understanding of their identities, strengths, and areas for growth, which is foundational for authentic leadership.
  • Increased confidence and competence: Through continuous personal development and achievement of set goals, clients will experience an increase in their confidence and competence in professional settings.
  • Strategic leadership skills: Clients will learn to apply strategic thinking to their roles, enhancing their ability to lead effectively and make informed decisions.
  • Advocacy and change management: Equipped with tools for championing racial and economic justice, clients will be better prepared to advocate for meaningful change within their organizations and communities.
  • Sustained transformation: The methodology is designed not just for temporary improvement but for sustained personal and professional transformation, enabling clients to continue thriving beyond the coaching period.

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