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“Visionary Leadership: Blending personal growth & leadership 'in-powerment' to achieve personal and professional success.”
Hi, I'm Cheryle Hays, helping others successfully navigate the complexities of today's personal and professional leadership challenges. With over 25 years leadership experience, I’ve overcome barriers in upbringing and in male-dominated fields, moving from no home and no degree, to being the first female Network Engineer at Novell, on to consulting for the US Navy, to my current path to “in-power” others. My journey has been one of continuing growth, insight, resilience, and determination.
As the CEO of InPower Strategists and best-selling author of 'People Fusion', I help individuals, leaders and teams thrive in today's complex and threatening paradigm shifts, such as the rise of AI. Together we align personal and people leadership, strategy, empowerment, culture, and engagement.
Why consider me for your podcast? My real-world experience on the impact of a personal journey on professional success. My R.E.S.P.O.N.D. framework was my “win” when moving from victim to visionary, allowing me to choose a “because of”, not “in spite of” life. I’d love to share how others can use R.E.S.P.O.N.D. on their personal journey. Would your listeners benefit from insights that transform their daily life as well as their future success?
Most leadership advice focuses on behaviors, tactics, or frameworks layered on top of a reactive base. Cheryle's work is different because it addresses the underlying operating system itself, giving leaders a repeatable way to shift from defense to design regardless of the situation.
A major differentiator is her focus on the mid-level and emerging leaders who often run the organization day to day but are the least supported and the most likely to be stuck in survival patterns they do not yet recognize. Her work also helps senior leaders understand what it actually takes for those leaders to buy in, engage, and create the right culture below them.
Her approach does not treat wellbeing as separate from business performance. It explains how a reactive leadership operating system creates burnout, rework, emotional residue, and disengagement, while a designed operating system improves both outcomes and health.
Cheryle brings an uncommon combination of hard technical credibility, leadership strategy, and personal proof of concept. Her background includes work with the U.S. Navy, early networking work later recognized by the Smithsonian, becoming one of Novell's first female field systems engineers, and turning painful life experience into practical leadership insight.
Another key differentiator is that she makes psychological safety with accountability concrete. Her work connects clarity, trust, engagement, buy-in, and stronger decisions to specific ways leaders show up in ordinary moments, not abstract values on a slide.
I help you transform your organization at the intersection of Leadership, Strategy, Culture, and Engagement. This alignment vertically within your organization, unleashes leadership and team potential, creates a thriving culture tied to your organizations strategic vision, increases team engagement and retention, accelerates and multiplies strategy execution and your bottom line. My discover, develop, and deliver framework identifies opportunities and solutions, bringing you clarity of vision, confidence in implementation, and the controls needed for ongoing success.
