Grounded in Leadership: Sisterhood, Support & Strategy

Honest conversations and transformative tools designed to support sustainable leadership and personal growth.

Purpose

Black women deserve spaces where they do not have to explain, shrink, code-switch, or carry the emotional burden of being misunderstood.

For generations, Black women have navigated workplaces and systems that demand excellence while offering little protection, acknowledgment, or safety in return. We are often expected to lead, nurture, educate, endure, and perform resilience—while our wellbeing and humanity are overlooked.

At LYLAS, we believe Black women deserve more than survival.

We deserve community.
We deserve rest.
We deserve opportunity.
We deserve spaces where we can be fully seen, fully supported, and fully safe.

We also deserve access to transformative tools, intentional solutions, and professional development experiences that support sustainable leadership, personal growth, and overall wellbeing.

LYLAS exists to create intentional spaces centered around the unique lived experiences, leadership journeys, healing, and growth of Black women. Through wellness experiences, leadership development, and authentic sisterhood, we are committed to helping Black women lead, heal, grow, and thrive—whole and unapologetic.

The Mission

We Listen. We Educate. We Support. We Connect.
Without Judgment.

Our mission is to foster meaningful dialogue, wellness, professional growth, and collective empowerment for Black women navigating leadership, identity, workplace dynamics, and life.

We are committed to creating spaces where Black women feel seen, supported, protected, and empowered to thrive authentically—while providing transformative tools, resources, and professional development experiences that support sustainable leadership and personal growth.

LYLAS Story

LYLAS was born from both experience and necessity.

In my early inclusion career, I had the opportunity to co-host and later independently host a workplace roundtable designed to create a safe space for BIPOC women. The conversations were powerful, honest, and deeply needed. Women spoke openly about workplace challenges, identity, bias, burnout, and the emotional realities of navigating professional spaces.

But over time, something became increasingly clear.

While many women of color experience marginalization, Black women often carry a uniquely different burden. One shaped by history, systemic bias, hypervisibility, stereotypes, and expectations that are not always shared across other ethnic groups.

I began to recognize that BIPOC spaces, while valuable, sometimes unintentionally flattened the vastly different lived experiences within those communities. The realities Black women face in the workplace and in society often require their own dedicated space for conversation, healing, strategy, and support.

I remember thinking:

That vision became reality in March 2025 with the launch of the first LYLAS roundtable.

Since then, LYLAS has grown into a trusted community where Black women gather to have courageous, vulnerable, and necessary conversations.

Topics have included:

Black Women and the Employment Crisis
Burnout and Emotional Exhaustion
Delegation and Asking for Help
CodeSwitching and Authenticity
Microaggressions in the Workplace
Hair Discrimination and Professionalism

What makes LYLAS special is that the conversations are guided by the community itself. These are not performative discussions or corporate talking points. They are real stories, shared by real Black Women, navigating real experiences.

In a world where safe spaces for Black women remain limited, LYLAS was created to be one intentionally.

A space to be heard.
A space to be seen.
A space to heal.
A space to lead.
A space to belong.

Because Black women should never have to navigate these experiences alone.

- Ebony M. Grover
Founder/CEO