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What change do YOU want
to create in
the world?

Creating meaningful impact isn’t about your job title; it starts with building your own sense of empowerment.

 Join us to grow, find support, and reimagine leadership in your life. 

We Are The People -
Building an inclusive community
of impactful leaders

Empowered to Lead Academy

  • Embrace

  • Evolve

  • Empower

Real leadership doesn't come from memorizing a few "how-to's". It's about exploring your true "should-free" self.

 

By building and growing your skill sets, you step into your own unique sense of empowerment.

 

"Empowered to Lead" is a hybrid professional development series designed for professionals like you - those committed to impacting and serving.

Gain the confidence, leadership skills to step into your role with purpose with small group and one-to-one coaching while building a community of support .

Are you ready to feel empowered to lead?

OurOur  Founder

Maria Robles Meier
Helping leaders operate in the
"Should-Free Zone".

Maria is passionate about living a "should-free" life and is fiercely committed to helping change-makers, impactors, and mission-driven professionals do the same. She helps others find their own values-based empowerment that rejects the limitations of "should's" and focuses on the possibilities of "could's". Working from the head and heart, she draws upon her vast experience in politics and policy to create relevant and results-driven trainings and programs. means she knows how things work. From her many experiences as the "first one" or the "only one" she deepened her commitment to building representative inclusion in the public sector. She created We Are The People to support those who want to make a difference with the tools, know-how, and community to step into their own sense of empowerment and become the impactful leaders they seek to be.

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What We Do

We Are The People contributes to a strong and inclusive democracy by training communities of diverse professionals who are empowered and prepared to assume leadership roles throughout the public sector.
 

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We advocate for the critical investment in public sector talent and are available for keynotes, workshops, and consultations, as well as written contributions.

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We create innovative and relevant professional development trainings for diverse professionals who impact politics and policy.

We develop inclusion plans for change-making institutions to build a culture of belonging.

For Individuals

For Teams and Organizations

For Thought Leaders

"Maria helps those she works with to ask the hard questions of themselves, because she understands that is really the only way forward. The result may be external, but the work always begins with the internal."

 - Non-profit manager

What others are saying

"It means a lot to share a learning experience with people who are going through the same thing you are and who share your background. Being able to talk about identity is really powerful."

-B.Y, leadership course student

"Diversity and Inclusion are words that are tossed around a lot these days, they're just words unless they lead to real empowerment. This course helped me find mine."

- A.G. workshop participant

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