Virtual and In-person events
Focused group learning tracks
Executive coaching
Mentorship and Support
C-Suite Readiness: A Professional Community for Women’s Leadership
Join a dynamic woman's membership community offering learning tools, executive coaching, mentoring, peer group learning, networking events and opportunities as well as resources for career advancement, sharpening leadership skill or creating the framework for launching your own business.
REACH THE NEXT LEVEL
ELEVATE YOUR CAREER
EXPLORE POSSIBILITIES
BECOME A FOUNDER AND CEO
The vast expertise of our community gives our members the edge. We bring decades' worth of business acumen and leadership coaching experience in a variety of industries such as law, financial services, healthcare, technology, real estate and academia
Join our women-only professional community where you will be elevated by being skillfully guided through the process of mastering leadership, moving up the organizational ladder or exploring new career or entrepreneurship opportunities
By Joining C-Suite Readiness, you will:
Become the CEO of your own life and drive it to success.
Join to receive executive coaching, mentorship, peer learning, industry updates
Explore networking opportunities with industry leaders, listen to their stories and build relationships with other founders
Attend events in thriving women-owned businesses and see first hand what might be possible
Turn your dreams and aspirations into reality by elevating your leadership and advancing your career
Turn your ideas into reality by learning from women business leaders who made it happen and will support you too
We strive to empower women to rise boldly and march upward to the top by achieving their personal and professional best. We work with our members to transform their leadership narrative by embracing strength and vulnerability, success and failure, ambition and balance.
Leverage the Power of Community
Join our events and grow your success with us
Step into summer
June 10, 2025
Mother's day with C-suite Readiness
May 20, 2025
Celebrate our founders
May 5, 2025
Clients We Worked With
We strive to empower women to rise boldly and fail forward to the top by achieving their personal and professional best. We work with our members to transform their leadership narrative by embracing strength and vulnerability, success and failure, ambition and balance.
Working with Yana Blackwelder was truly transformational for my leadership journey. Through her expert coaching, I gained the clarity and confidence needed to take my career to the next level. Yana’s tailored approach to women’s leadership development helped me not only overcome specific challenges ...
Anne Hammond Cadillo
Head of Global Marketing - Oncology at BD
With Yana, I have learned techniques about how to bring the best of myself to coaching and to distinguish between managing and leading. My sessions with Yana have not only been fun, inspiring and enriching, but they have helped me to build confidence and skill in coaching sessions.
COURTNEY TUCKMAN
Google | Mobility Experience Team
I had so many insights of how to work at my individual leadership style and how to become an inspirational leader. I am still thinking about all that we discussed together and feel so much energized and powerful! You created a wonderful atmosphere where a person can be absolutely open to new id...
ZAREMA ARTAMONOVA
Coca-Cola HBC, Country Commercial Capability Manager
Podcast
HerStory to the Top
Our project is creating a podcast, "HerStory to the Top" that will include interviews with women who have been able to persevere and rise to the top of their professio by learning through their mistakes and life experiences. While being business superstars, they also raised families and did not forget to enjoy life to the fullest.
