Inside-Out Development
Identity, mindset, and leadership work that starts before strategy. Confidence built from the inside, not borrowed from outside.
Inside out, from the ground up
The Challenge
The visibility gap
Women in the U.S. earn roughly 84 cents for every dollar earned by men (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024). That gap widens for Black women, and less than 2% of venture capital funding goes to women-only-founded teams (Crunchbase, 2024). The systems were not built with women in mind.
Women of Purpose offers inside-out development for women building financial independence, leadership, and community, through biweekly workshops and cohort programming with operators who have already done the work.
What we provide
Five interconnected pillars built around the inside-out development of every woman in the room.
Financial Independence
Budgeting, banking basics, credit building, investing, and tax literacy taught at sophistication levels few workshops actually reach.
Leadership Development
Public speaking, executive presence, negotiation, and the soft and hard skills that decision-makers actually use day to day.
Cohort Community
Biweekly cohort gatherings where women support, challenge, and refer each other through career pivots, business launches, and life transitions.
Mentorship & Network
Direct access to operators, investors, and leaders who open doors most networks never reach. Real introductions, not just inspiration.
The Method · Biweekly Cohorts
Founded by Mariah Cooks · Co-led by Sheri Macdonald and Tiffany Hayes
Where the work happens
Hands-on workshops on finance, leadership, and identity work, taught by operators in their fields, not generalists with a slide deck.
Cohort members lead the conversations, share their work, and challenge each other to step into the rooms they belong in. Practice happens here first.
Women leave the cohort having launched something tangible. A business, a career pivot, a new community, or all three at once.
Built by Women
Built by women, for women
Women of Purpose was founded by three women, an attorney and former NCAA athlete, a 2X WNBA All-Star, and a globally respected equity and inclusion leader, bringing decades of work in justice, sport, and venture capital to this next chapter.