Leadership Is Broken: The Journey of Illyasha Peete
Illyasha Peete, founder of Catalyze & Cultivate Consulting (Triple C), helps leaders overcome misalignment and achieve measurable results. With 30+ years of experience, she offers dynamic keynotes, cohort learning, and one-on-one coaching to redefine leadership.
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Sep 25, 2025
Leadership today often feels harder than it should.
NATIONWIDE - SEPTEMBER 2025 - (USAnews.com) — Meetings run long, yet clarity never seems to come. Brilliant ideas get stuck before they see daylight. Teams want alignment, but silos hinder their progress. Leaders are under constant pressure to do more with less, and the systems they inherited were never built for this moment.
Illyasha “Illy” Peete saw this early in her career and made a choice: leadership had to be redefined. Through Catalyze & Cultivate Consulting (Triple C), she now helps leaders move from stuck to forward, making the right call with confidence, clarity, and measurable results.
From Misalignment to Measurable Results
Leaders often ask: Why do our decisions stall? Why do we lose momentum between executive intent and team execution? The pain is real, misalignment wastes time, erodes trust, and drains energy from even the strongest organizations.
That’s why executives, emerging leaders, and teams turn to Illyasha “Illy” Peete, MBA, transformational leader, consultant, and author of Glass Ceilings, Fragile Ground. With 30+ years of experience across nonprofit, government, and corporate sectors, Illyasha has seen leadership from every angle and co-creates solutions that help organizations cut through the noise and make progress where it counts.
From the Stage to the Team Room: Experiences That Move Leaders Forward
Too often, leadership development feels disconnected: a keynote that inspires in the moment, or a training that never quite makes it into daily practice. Leaders crave inspiration and practical tools. Teams want connection and a clear path forward.
That’s why Illyasha combines dynamic keynotes, immersive cohort-based learning, and one-on-one coaching into a powerful journey:
Keynotes spark energy and introduce frameworks leaders can use right away.
Cohort learning experiences bring groups together, moving collectively through dialogue, reflection, and action planning.
Individual coaching helps leaders apply insights directly to their toughest challenges.
This integrated approach ensures leaders and teams don’t just hear new ideas, they move forward together, reducing friction, strengthening collaboration, and making decisions with confidence.
Why Leadership Needs to Change
Traditional leadership models prioritize control and hierarchy over collaboration and clarity,,leaving leaders burned out and teams disengaged. Leaders tell us they’re tired of doing “all the right things” yet still feeling stuck.
Illyasha’s approach flips the script. “Leadership is about making the right call, especially in uncertain times,” she says. “I don’t sit on the sidelines. I work side by side with leaders to co-create solutions that last.”
Her mix of lived experience and academic rigor makes this possible. As an adjunct faculty member, she teaches nonprofit management with a focus on real-world application. She has been recognized nationally, including as one of the Top 100 in BlackBio and with Stanford Health Care’s Patient Safety Star Award.
Beyond the Norm: Human-Centered Leadership
Leaders often feel isolated at the top,,carrying the weight of decisions while struggling to engage their teams. Triple C addresses this by centering people first.
Programs are hands-on, tailored, and immediately applicable. Leaders who work with Illyasha report:
Faster, clearer decision-making
Stronger collaboration across silos
More ownership and accountability
Higher team morale and trust
As Illyasha notes: “Leadership is about people. When you focus on the human side, everything else falls into place.”
The Bigger Vision
Many leaders, especially from historically excluded backgrounds, still face ceilings and fragile ground beneath their feet. Without support, they’re expected to deliver more while navigating invisible barriers.
Illyasha addresses this head-on in her book, Glass Ceilings, Fragile Ground, a roadmap for leaders navigating obstacles and organizations seeking to change outdated systems. The book expands on the same lessons she brings into her consulting and keynotes, giving leaders a deeper look at what it takes to lead boldly in today’s world.
Ready to Make the Right Call?
If you’re tired of spinning wheels in meetings, watching decisions stall, or seeing teams lose energy before progress takes root, it’s time to try a different approach. Triple C was built to help leaders and teams unlock clarity, confidence, and measurable results. Schedule a Session: Let’s Chat
Connect with Illyasha:Website: Catalyze and Cultivate Consulting
Amazon: Glass Ceilings, Fragile Ground
LinkedIn: Illyasha Peete, MBA
