Reclaim Power. Reimagine Leadership.

A leadership development experience for visionary women of color in social impact.

About RARE Leaders

Lead with clarity. Grow on purpose. Rise in community.

RARE Leaders is a thoughtfully curated leadership development initiative powered by MRL Strategies that is designed for mission-driven women of color advancing social impact, including nonprofit, philanthropy, corporate and social responsibility (CSR), social enterprise, and public sector.

It’s a collective of changemakers dedicated to co-leading with intention, integrity, and imagination for better futures. That means building shared prosperity and power.

Leadership doesn’t have to mean burnout, bureaucracy, or business as usual.

It can be different. Revolutionary. RARE.

The RARE Framework


I. Radical Vision
II. Authentic Engagement
III. Responsive Management
IV. Executive Presence


The RARE Leadership Framework is designed to challenge the status quo and outdated standards which uphold it. Our model centers principles to focus on what really makes leadership from the margins powerful: agency, dignity, efficacy, and sustainability.

The RARE Pathways

Choose Your Path. Grow at Your Pace.

The RARE Leaders LAB

Learn - Align - Become

Foundational leadership incubator
for essential development

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The RARE Leaders CORE

Care-Oriented Resilience & Excellence

Advanced leadership accelerator
for elevated development

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Values & Vision

RARE Leaders is built for you if:

  • You’re a woman of color passionate about advancing social impact and justice

  • You’re aspiring, emerging, or navigating leadership as a changemaker without a roadmap that reflects your lived experience

  • You’re ready to align your career with your beliefs and nourish—not stifle—your intuition

  • You’re tired of assimilating to spaces and systems not designed for your intersectionality

  • You want to build strategy—and solidarity—on your own terms to elevate & excel

Let’s Lead the Change

RARE Leaders isn’t just a philosophy or a program. It’s a movement to unlearn and upgrade leadership—we are restoring rest, resilience, and revolutionary care as our right for transformation.

Your leadership is needed.
Join the RARE Collective.

A Network for Visionary Women of Color in Social Impact

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Begin your journey with access to the complimentary RARE Starter Kit, including:

  • The “Unlearning to Lead” 5-part audio series

  • Reflective journal prompts to assess your leadership style

  • Intro eBook: Reclaiming Leadership as Resistance

Frequently Asked Questions

  • The full program investment is $1,250. Payment plans and scholarships are available.

  • Each program path is 4 weeks of weekly live workshops (2 hours each), with optional peer learning sessions.

  • Yes! Leadership is about influence, not just titles. If you’re doing the work, this is for you.

  • Yes. This is a space intentionally built by and for the intersection of women (including gender expansive people) and BIPOC leaders who identify as Black, Indigenous, Latine, Afro-Caribbean, Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, and Multi-racial.