Books & Courses · The Signature Work
More Than Strong
Healing from Workplace Trauma and Redefining Strength for Black Women
Strength kept you employed. It is also what is exhausting you.
Black women are promoted for their competence and punished for their humanity. You are the one who handles it, absorbs it, and holds the room together — and the reward for that is more of it. Over time the armor stops being a choice and starts being the only setting you have.
More Than Strong names what that costs. It draws a clean line between resilience and self-erasure, between a hard job and workplace trauma, and between the strength you chose and the strength that was assigned to you. Then it gives you a way out that does not require you to quit, shrink, or pretend you are fine.
Written by a licensed therapist and organizational psychologist who has sat on both sides of this — in the therapy room and in the leadership meeting.
Inside
- How chronic microaggressions and hypervisibility register in the nervous system
- The Strong Black Woman schema — where it came from and what it takes
- Naming workplace trauma without needing anyone else to validate it
- Boundaries that hold in environments that punish boundaries
- Rebuilding after being passed over, managed out, or gaslit
Paperback$42.99
Go deeper · The companion course
The book names it. The program walks you out of it.
A self-paced program built for the woman who has read the book, recognized herself on every page, and now wants to do something about it. This is the applied version — worksheets, scripts, regulation practices, and decision frameworks for the environment you are actually in.
Who it's for: Black women in professional, clinical, academic, corporate, legal, and nonprofit settings — mid-level through executive.
More Than Strong — The Signature Program
- Self-paced modules with a reflection workbook
- Boundary scripts and documentation templates for real workplace situations
- Nervous system regulation practices for before, during, and after hard days
- Frameworks for deciding what to fight, what to document, and what to release
- Certificate of completion
Self-paced enrollment$199.00
Take the book and the course together
Read the framework, then apply it while it is still fresh. Add both to your cart in the shop — $241.99 for the complete pair.
Buying for more than one person? Team and organization licensing · Curated bundles
Dr. Gee on the ideas behind this work.
Bring it live
This is also a keynote and a workshop.
Every title in the library can be delivered to your organization as a mainstage keynote, a half-day workshop, or a multi-week leadership cohort — customized to your industry and your data.
Courses and programs sold through Leading Light Beyond are educational products. They are not therapy, mental health treatment, clinical supervision, or case consultation, and purchase does not create a clinical, supervisory, or therapeutic relationship. If you are working through significant trauma, anxiety, or depression, please also work with a licensed mental health professional. If you are in immediate danger, call 911. For confidential support in the US, call or text 988.