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I am the founder and CEO of Show Your Worth.ai- Personalized guidance to advance your career - whether you are starting out or aiming for the C-suite. I am a former IBM Vice President, global empowerment speaker, a philanthropist and a best selling author of Show Your Worth: 8 Intentional Strategies for Women to Emerge as Leaders at Work. I left my home in Tanzania at the age of 15 with one dream: to lift my family out of poverty. I went from being first in my family to graduate college to becoming a Vice President at IBM while raising my two children on my own since they were 4 and 2. I have hired, promoted and led thousands of professionals globally through upturns and downturns which taught me invaluable lessons. At the height of my career, I left my corporate role with another dream : to empower professionals to advance in their careers by showing their worth. I have had the honor of delivering talks at Grace Hopper conference, Google, NASA, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, IBM, T-Mobile, The World Bank Group, Discover Financial Services, American Express, Deltek, Expedia, Boeing, SAP, Edward Jones, Assurant, Avalara, Fitch Ratings, Black Women in STEM, Ascend leadership convention, Harvard and others. We funded Amahoro secondary school in Mgraraganza village of Tanzania in 2012. Today 500+ students from 7 remote villages attend the school. I continue to provide scholarships to young women from Amahoro to attend college upon graduation. We also funded an early childhood education center in Kanungu, Uganda which serves 450 young children. It has been a privilege to serve as a strategic advisor to Girl Up and a board member of Young Women Empowered, TiE- Seattle and Bellevue College.
Empowering you 24/7 with proven, personalized and proactive guidance to advance in your career- whether you are starting out or aiming for the C-suite. It meets you where you are and evolves as you do - becoming your long term career guide, champion and cheerleader . Centered around 8 proven, foundational and timeless strategies from my best selling book: SHOW YOUR WORTH. The framework guides you to: 1. Define what SUCCESS means to you by aiming high and ensuring it is aligned with your values. 2. Start your Personal Success Plan by focusing your ATTENTION on what matters most. 3. Achieve a WORK/LIFE balance in our constantly changing disruptive world. 4. Overcome fear, find your voice, and contribute VALUE at your maximum capacity 5. Seek relevant and meaningful GROWTH. 6. Build meaningful RELATIONSHIPS with first-line managers, peers, mentors, and sponsors 7. Build and preserve your LEADERSHIP BRAND. 8. Become strategic and intentional about earning a PROMOTION. It teaches you to always own your power by constantly exercising your POWER QUOTIENT. It guides you to Reflect and Celebrate each week against your PSP so you can learn, course-correct and most importantly celebrate your successes to stay energized and build a success mindset. This framework provides uniquely tailored guidance. It is non-judgmental and always on. The more you interact, the more personalized guidance you will receive.
A proven blueprint to accelerate your career success and fast track you into leadership roles. If you're a woman, especially a woman of color, you know this already: You face unique challenges and obstacles as you work to scale the corporate ladder. From not seeing other faces in the room that look like you to dealing with the stereotypes and (often unconscious) biases in the workplace. My book teaches you how to Show Your Worth and chisel away at those biases. In pages that are both inspirational and practical, I speak directly to professional women about how the power of being intentional and strategic can help transform the headwinds you face into much-needed tailwinds. Show Your Worth takes you on a deep dive into the 8 Intentional Strategies that will help you accelerate your success : Success: Define what success means to you by aiming high and ensuring it is aligned with your values. Attention: Develop your Personal Success Plan by focusing your attention on what matters most. Work/Life Balance: Thrive in your work and your life in our disrupted world Value Creation: Overcome fear, find your voice, and contribute value at your maximum capacity Growth: Seek relevant and meaningful growth Relationships: Connect meaningfully with first-line managers, peers, mentors, and sponsors Leadership Branding: Build and preserve your reputation as a leader Promotions: Become strategic and intentional about earning a promotion Through Shelmina’a personal experiences and the inspiring stories of other successful women who have applied these strategies in their own lives, you will come to deeply understand how to know , own and show your worth in every interaction.
Shelmina is a renowned global keynote speaker who empowers, equips and energizes her audience to show their worth As a result, they not only accelerate their success and fast track into leadership roles but also deliver better business outcomes. She has delivered keynotes with standing ovations at Grace Hopper conference, Google, NASA, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, IBM, T-Mobile, The World Bank Group, Discover Financial Services, American Express, Deltek, Expedia, Boeing, SAP, Edward Jones, Assurant, Avalara, Fitch Ratings, Black Women in STEM, Ascend leadership convention, Harvard and others Examples of her talks and fireside chats can be found on https://shelmina.com/speaker/
Founded in 2010, Girl Up is a global movement dedicated to advancing gender justice by investing in the leadership of girls and youth. Its mission is to power an interconnected, global movement of youth leaders to advance gender justice. Girls and young people are not just the leaders of tomorrow, they are the advocates, organizers, and changemakers of today. Girl Up equips and supports youth to take action on the issues that matter most in their communities.
TiE-Seattle is part of TiE which is the world’s largest non profit that fosters entrepreneurship globally. TiE believes in the power of ideas to change the face of entrepreneurship and growing business through five pillars:mentoring, networking,education, incubation and funding.