Angelina Darrisaw is the founder and CEO of C-Suite Coach, a firm that offers expertly designed professional development and coaching programs for working professionals and small business leaders. C-Suite Coach has staffed coaches and provided training programs for Google, Wayfair, Major League Baseball, NYU's Veteran Lab Accelerator, Zendesk, Oscar Health, Union Pacific Railroad Company, and many others.
C-Suite Coach, a WBENC, NMSDC and NGLCC certified business, is a preferred supplier for Google, with contracts ranging from Supplier Diversity consulting and content design for racial equity programs. C-Suite Coach also services Black & Latinx small businesses by supporting Google's efforts to bridge the digital divide through tactical digital skills training. As a part of this work, C-Suite Coach manages 20 coaches who have offered free coaching and resources to over 100,000 US-based Black and LatinX small businesses through more than 1000 programs across the US since 2018.
These efforts helped Angelina earn Forbes Next 1000 and Black Enterprise's 40 under 40 Award for Business in 2021, the Digital Diversity Network Innovation and Inclusion for social entrepreneurship in 2019, the "Innovators & Disruptors: Diversity & Inclusion Award" presented by New York On Tech and NBC Universal and the Year Up Urban Empowerment Award in 2018, and the Walker's Legacy Power25 award in 2017.
Darrisaw has presented at leading conferences such as Leading Women Defined, ATD, SHRM, Black Enterprise's Women of Power Summit, Entrepreneur's Summit and 40 under 40 Summit, Ebony Women Up, Google's State of the Black Woman, the 2016 Democratic National Convention, CultureCon, AdColor Futures, Hue Tech Summit, and many more. She has keynoted at institutions including TIAA, Year Up, Edward Jones, Princeton, Brown, Davidson College, NYU, Oakwood University, and many more. She holds a BA in political science from Davidson College. She is an alumni board member, an MA in management from Wake Forest University, and a certificate of coaching from New York University. Darrisaw is also an adjunct professor for the Masters in Integrated Marketing Program at New York University.
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