Audacious Inner Works Institute
Our Roots, Our Purpose
We Start with Heart.
At Audacious Inner Works Institute, everything begins from the inside out.
Transformation happens when we dare to go deep.
Growth is tender work, and we meet it with love, intention, and courage.
Our clients describe our approach as “gentle assertiveness”: meeting people where they are with compassion while gently challenging them to reflect deeply, learn meaningfully, and move boldly toward new possibilities.
To us, Audacious Inner Works is more than a name. It is a commitment to helping people, teams, and organizations uncover the strength, wisdom, and possibility already within them—and expand the capacity to turn that potential into meaningful action.
Wherever you are in the journey, we’re so glad you’re here.
Let’s begin together.
Click above to hear a personal welcome from Glenda.
Glenda M. Francis
Founder & Life Coach
Our Mission in Action
Learning expands what people, teams, and organizations are capable of.
At Audacious Inner Works Institute, we believe learning is the catalyst for development and transformation—the process through which potential becomes capacity and new possibilities become meaningful action.
As a strategic learning and development partner, we design customized experiences that cultivate capacity, strengthen connection, and turn learning into meaningful action. Through coaching, facilitation, and intentional learning experiences, we create the conditions for people to reflect, learn, grow, and act. Our work across public education, consulting, and professional coaching has taught us that the strongest solutions are built with people, not for them.
We believe lasting impact comes from developing the capacity to learn, adapt, lead, and create change from within. Whether we’re supporting an individual, a team, or an organization, our work meets people where they are and builds from there.
We’re committed to expanding access to meaningful learning and development. As a certified NYC Minority- and Women-owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) and approved NYC Department of Education vendor, we’re able to extend that commitment through partnerships that create greater opportunity for people and communities to learn, grow, and thrive.
Explore Our Programs & Offerings
Personal Development
Build clarity, confidence, and resilience to navigate challenges, embrace change, and turn ambitious goals into achievable outcomes.
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Professional Development
Develop leadership, deepen collaboration, and build collective capacity for stronger teams and more effective organizations.
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Our Grounding Values
Love
We lead with it. Love connects, heals, & transforms.
Curiosity
Community
Excellence
Equity & Justice
Development
Our Commitment to Black Women
We’re particularly passionate about the empowerment of Black women who have been historically burdened by intersecting oppressions.
Black women share a long, rich history of being extraordinarily formidable in holding up their families and communities whilst also fighting on the frontlines for social change. Indeed, to be self-determined and resilient while your very humanity is under relentless assault is an audacious, self-loving act!
And yet, it is also true that living on the societal margins and waging a ceaseless battle against discrimination and microaggressions can take a heavy toll and contribute to the deleterious “weathering” of your health.
At AIW, we understand these contexts and their debilitating impacts. Therefore, we are fiercely committed to partnering with Black women to unpack the pain, rewrite the scripts, and thrive as the architects of their lives —and of the world!
A Note About AIW’s Logo, the Lotus Flower
The lotus flower is the subject of countless sacred texts and considered pure and sacred because of its daily “resurrection” life cycle. Each night, the lotus submerges into the murky rivers where its roots are based, only to bloom the next morning perfectly immaculate, without any trace of its muddy environment on its petals! Thus, many believe the flower represents spiritual enlightenment.
Apart from its incredible daily rebirth, the lotus can survive thousands of years without water and is able to germinate many centuries later! By design, through its own genetic blueprint, this flower not only merely survives, but thrives, and does so beautifully!
Human beings, like all living things, have a spiritual blueprint and when we align with it, we too, thrive beautifully!
