Who we are.
When We Gather Consulting is a pro-black, women-led organization dedicated to ensuring that Black women feel whole and powerful. We know that healing of both self and community is possible and essential to leadership. We prioritize the needs, experiences, and ancestral knowledge of women of color because we acknowledge that we are inherently valuable and that our liberation is a necessary step toward the collective freedom of all.
Our work.
When We Gather Consulting supports the co-creation of identity-affirming and culturally sustaining workplace systems. Whenever we gather to create freedom spaces, our collective power is enough to cultivate and nurture innovative responses to address the challenges of systemic oppression within organizations.
Our story.
When We Gather Consulting was born from a shared commitment between Dr. LeAnna Majors and Chinedu Udeh to reimagine what leadership could look like when rooted in care and wholeness for Black women.
Both women had spent decades working in service of community; teaching, coaching, leading, and advocating. Their work was deeply personal, a reflection of their values and their identities. But over time, they each began to notice the toll: the constant planning, the endless striving, the tendency to disappear in service of others.
For Chinedu, burnout looked like over-functioning and control. A proud daughter of Igbo immigrants, she was taught to approach all labor with care and pride. But in a system that rewarded output over humanity, she found herself disconnected from the present—missing the sweetness of the work she once loved. It wasn’t until the stillness of the pandemic that she began to reclaim joy. Not as a distant reward, but as something to be lived now.
LeAnna’s realization came in the form of small but radical boundaries: remembering to eat, to comb her hair. After years of giving all of herself to freedom work in schools and communities, she found herself deeply depleted. Her breakdown came not from failure, but from a system that demands Black women be everything to everyone. In her recovery, she embraced “critical affirmation”—a practice of self-compassion and truth-telling—and began to imagine work that didn’t require her to disappear.
Together, Chinedu and LeAnna envisioned something different. A space where leadership is about centering humanity, rather than pushing to the brink. A space where Black women feel whole in their work. Where ancestral knowledge, self-care, and community are central to how we build and lead.
They founded When We Gather to co-create systems that make this vision real. Because Black women deserve spaces where we are not asked to choose between our purpose and our well-being. We deserve work that is rooted in joy, integrity, and collective care.
This is the work that allows us to thrive.
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