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YOUR "GO-TO" EMPLOYEE MAY BE PLOTTING HER EXIT...
For every 100 men promoted to manager, only 73 Women of Color receive the same opportunity.
— McKinsey, Women in the Workplace
Nearly 1 in 3 Women of Color plan to leave their employer within a year.
Not because they dislike their jobs, but because they don’t see a future there. After years of contributing, leading, solving problems, and producing results, many still struggle to move into higher-level roles.
And most of the time, it comes down to 2 things:
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Growth and advancement opportunities aren’t always visible or easy to identify.
Employees aren't clear on how to position themselves as a high-level asset to the business.
DISENGAGED
EMPLOYEES
This should be a HUGE concern for organizations because:
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63% of employees who quit cited lack of advancement opportunities as a major reason for leaving.
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Internal movers have a 75% retention rate compared to 56% for employees who remain in stagnant roles.
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Replacing experienced salaried employees typically costs companies 6–9 months of that employee’s salary.
And what happens when hard working employees are simply told "good job" but remain in the same role, year in, year out, without movement or growth?
THEY JUMP SHIP.
Command the Room, Sis!
THE RETENTION STRATEGY THAT KEEPS “GOOD JOB” FROM TURNING INTO GOODBYE
Employees with Career Development opportunities have 34% higher retention than those without...
— Work Institute 2024 Retention Report
Command the Room, Sis! is a promotion readiness program for mid-career Women of Color (5+ years) seeking a higher-level role in their current organization.
Over the course of 6 months, your employees will learn how to explicitly connect their contributions to organizational outcomes, priorities, and business goals through:
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Professional Identity: Identifying the role they want to pursue next within their company and what they want to be known for within their field.
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Leadership Mindset: Addressing mindset blocks and internal barriers to reduce the fear of growth and expansion in their career.
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Sales Psychology: Understanding how promotion decisions are influenced and how to strategically position contributions for leadership buy-in.
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Communication & Impact: Translating their responsibilities and projects into business terms (ROI + outcomes) to build their case for promotion.
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Internal Visibility: Developing strategies to increase recognition, create opportunities for sponsorship and advocacy, and build cross functional relationships.
Command the Room, Sis! was built to help organizations improve retention of their WOC employees and reduce the risk of disengagement due to boredom, burnout, and lack of advancement opportunities.
That's why it's considered the anti-bye-bye plan.
Organizations That Have Sponsored
Command the Room, Sis!
Early cohorts across 3 organizations resulted in 3 participant promotions within 12 months.
KEY DETAILS
Across the U.S. workforce, Women of Color collectively earn roughly $0.60–$0.75 for every dollar earned by White, non‑Hispanic men.
— U.S. Department of Labor, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR)
WHO IT'S FOR
Mid-career Women of Color (5+ years of experience) who meet ANY of the following:
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Have been in their current role for 2.5 years
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Have been with the company for 2.5 years
Command the Room, Sis! is primarily an employer-sponsored program, with organizations sponsoring employees they’d like to support in their advancement and leadership development. Employees interested in participating may also share the program with their manager or HR team to explore sponsorship opportunities.
If you’d like your employer to consider sponsoring Command the Room, Sis!, or if you’re interested in self-sponsoring your participation, you can complete this form to receive additional information and next steps or contact me at torrielharris@cprservices.net.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Command the Room, Sis! is delivered virtually through a cross organization cohort model that allows participants to learn alongside Women of Color across industries, with enrollment capped at 30 participants.
New participants join during monthly enrollment windows, with live sessions held outside standard work hours (evenings or weekends) to avoid disrupting day to day responsibilities.
For Participants
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1 year of access to the full curriculum, recordings, workbooks, and templates
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Live virtual sessions held 2x per month over 6 months
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Ongoing support between sessions through Slack, including additional mini trainings and resources
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Quarterly meetings with HR and Senior Leaders to share what they look for when making promotion decisions and help employees strengthen their business case for advancement
For Leadership Teams
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Kickoff Meeting: Leadership shares how advancement decisions are typically made within the organization, including what drives promotion conversations, increased responsibility, and internal opportunities.
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Quarterly Leadership Roundtables: Open invitation to join or facilitate Quarterly Leadership Roundtables. (Optional)
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Leadership Workshop: Leaders learn how to better identify employee strengths, support advancement conversations, recognize promotion readiness, and develop internal talent more intentionally across their teams.
All curriculum design, facilitation, coaching, and participant support
are managed by CTRS!, minimizing the time and coordination required
from participating organizations.
WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU???
Promotions are business decisions. So in addition to all the other benefits spoken about above, Command the Room, Sis! also circumvents costly promotion decisions by helping your employees:
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Think beyond basic task completion and connect their contributions and impact to larger business goals, organizational priorities, and long term company growth.
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Improve prioritization, ownership, and execution around projects and day-to-day responsibilities to create smoother workflows and increase productivity across their team or department.
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Better navigate conversations with leadership, stakeholders, and clients in situations where buy-in can influence project outcomes, strategic decisions, and future opportunities for their team or department.
The better they get, the better you get;
it's a win-win situation for all parties involved.
INVESTMENT
$3,000 Per Participant
Volume Discounts
4–11 seats: $2,700 per participant (10% discount)
12–20 seats: $2,550 per participant (15% discount)
21–30 seats: $2,250 per participant (25% discount)
Ready to sponsor your employees?
Select the number of participant seats below to complete enrollment.
Questions or need an invoice before enrolling your employees?
Contact torrielharris@cprservices.net for additional support.
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In the last few weeks of doing this course, I’ve been getting so many people at my job like, ‘Can I ask you a question? Can I reach out to you?’ That wasn’t the case before…
This program made it for me to be able to stay where I am and grow to another level…
If you don’t feel like you’re where you’re supposed to be professionally, or you don’t know how to turn your career around, take this course.
Tanishia P. — Health Counselor
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One thing this program helped me with was being able to discern quickly if a workplace matches what I need...
In this new job, I realized pretty fast that it’s a place that invests in development, and that gave me a lot of clarity and excitement stepping in… I’ve been asking very practical questions and bringing ideas for how things could work better.
I can see that it’s starting to have an impact…
Bettina G. — Communications Coordinator
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What helped me pull myself forward was joining this program...
Now it’s more clear what I’m after...[I’m] more self aware [about] what I need and how I need it… If someone is thinking about taking this program, I’d say just go for it.
You don’t have to struggle or figure it out by yourself.
ZamZam A. — Program Facilitator
Command the Room, Sis!
THE SOLUTION THAT KEEPS YOUR BEST TALENT
FROM CRASHING OUT & LEAVING
Listen... I'm gonna hold your hand as I say this:
If you're not already promoting these women...
They've probably already written up their "peace out" notice.
They're simply waiting for a better opportunity to come around
before sending it.
Command the Room, Sis! exists to prevent that very thing from happening. Because...
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