Shaping Success International

Resilience Coach and Empowerment Facilitator

Ministry of Education Sports and Creative Industries

Head of Department of Modern Langauges. Leading a team of 6 persons with curriculum design and training.

High School Teacher

5 Step Side Hustle Blueprint

Want to turn your interests and skills into a profitable side venture?

It's time to identify your passions, strengths, and market opportunities.

I've helped professionals like you discover and develop a clear and actionable 5-week roadmap tailored to each individual to clarify, identify, and launch their side gigs.

Side Hustle Bestie

TGB Digital

Email Consultant

A lot of emails suck,

Hard truth - but it had to be said.

Don't let yours fall into that bucket.

You see, email is a great way to turn a prospect into a lifelong customer and even a friend.

Do it right, and the world is your oyster,

Do it wrong, well the unsubscribe button could become your nemesis.

But,

You don't have to worry about that if you're writing to your ideal prospect and client.

Someone who wants to hear from you and looks forward to that weekly email in his inbox. 

Here;s how I can help:

1. I work with business coaches and entrepreneurs to implement an effective email strategy that combines content, email, and outreach strategies to increase sales.

2. I get you five sales call booked guaranteed and I don't get paid til you do.

3. I audit your email strategy to find the holes and plug them so that your emails perform the way you want.

You choose.

Let's talk.  Schedule a FREE consult right here: https://calendly.com/tasia_barriero/call-w-tasia-gonsalves-barriero

Email Marketing Consultant

Content Writer

TGB Copywriting and Content

There are 1.9 billion websites
And 600 million blogs

In existence online today.

The chances of your prospects just "happening" upon your content is as easy as finding a bag with $100k on a rainy Wednesday evening😁.

Helping your content reach your target audience is my specialty.

Stop spending money on paid ads that don't work.

Or outdated SEO practices that the 90's want back.

Small changes to your content and how it is presented will produce better results over time.

What are some of these changes?

✅ building your authority on social media platforms
✅ answering questions that your prospects have with the right content

Just the tip of the iceberg.

I create content for entrepreneurs which includes email marketing, content audits, and blog post writing.

Let me show you how I can help.

Schedule a FREE call today right here: https://calendly.com/tasia_barriero/call-w-tasia-gonsalves-barriero

I help you identify and launch profitable side hustles in 5 weeks using my S.H.I.N.E. Method.

From a young age, I knew what it felt like to be unseen. 

Circumstances in my early life left me feeling invisible and unworthy, as though I was navigating the world on my own.

While the pain of those experiences could have defined my life, they instead became the catalyst for my transformation.

For years, I carried the weight of my past, allowing it to shape my self-worth and dictate my choices. But there came a moment when I realized that living in the shadows of my past was holding me back from the life I truly deserved. 

I was done being invisible. It was time to step into the light and reclaim my power.

Through resilience, I learned to let go of the hurt that tethered me to my past. I discovered the strength within me to rise above the pain and to wear my crown proudly as the queen of my own story. 

Visibility became my mantra—no longer would I hide behind the scars of my past. 
Instead, I chose to stand tall, to be seen, and to shine a light for others who are on the same journey.

Today, I help women who have faced their own battles reclaim their power and build the resilience needed to thrive. I teach them how to let go of their past, step into their visibility, and wear their crowns with pride. Because every woman deserves to live a life without regrets, a life where she shows up as her true, powerful self.

The women I work with through my coaching programs and events, have been able to
1. Gain a deeper understanding of their inner strengths and the power they hold
2. Learn practical coping strategies and techniques to stay calm and focused under pressure. 
3.  Feel more fulfilled and motivated, with a clear sense of direction and purpose guiding their daily actions and long-term goals.

If you're ready to stop hiding and start thriving, book a call with me here. Together, we'll turn your pain into power and your setbacks into success.

Tasia Gonsalves-Barriero

Career and Mindset Coach for Women of Color in Human Resources| Ft. in Wall Street Journal | Certified HR Professional| HR Executive| Facilitator & Speaker | Podcast Host | Career Coach | Ring the bell 🔔

Organizations don’t break down because of a lack of strategy.
They break down because leaders are operating from pressure, misalignment, and unspoken tension—and no one is naming it clearly enough to change it.

That’s where my work lives.

I help HR and executive leaders translate leadership confusion into executive-level clarity—so trust is restored, culture stabilizes, and performance stops leaking through people problems.

As a former Vice President of HR with 20+ years of experience inside complex organizations, I understand what happens before disengagement, burnout, turnover, and culture erosion show up in the data. Most leadership issues don’t start as “performance problems.” They start as unregulated leadership behaviors, unclear communication, and fear-based decision-making that quietly spreads.

I help organizations interrupt that pattern early—and address it at the right level.

How I Work With Organizations

My work sits at the intersection of leadership behavior, executive communication, and culture repair.

Organizations partner with me when they need leaders who can:

   •Communicate with clarity and authority in high-stakes moments

   •Address conflict and performance issues without escalating fear or avoidance

   •Influence at the executive level, not just manage tasks

   •Lead teams through complexity without passing stress down the org chart

   •Rebuild trust after growth, change, or leadership strain

This work often begins with facilitated workshops or leadership sessions and extends into targeted executive or team coaching—ensuring insight turns into sustained behavior change.

The Result

Leaders who act instead of react.
HR teams who are seen as strategic partners—not clean-up crews.
Cultures where accountability and trust can coexist.

If your organization is navigating leadership strain, culture misalignment, or executive communication breakdowns—and you’re ready to address the real issue beneath the surface—this is the work I lead.

Nakisha Hicks, MBA, PHR

If 2025 felt heavy… this is for you.

I’ve been sitting with a simple but grounding truth as we step into the new year:
Light doesn’t rush a room. It enters it.

This week’s Morning Mindset explores why 2026 is a “light year”—and why clarity and intentionality matter more than speed right now.

No hype. No pressure. Just an honest reset for your mind, heart, and leadership.

✨ Read the first newsletter of 2026 ↓

Nakisha Hicks, MBA

I help HR leaders translate leadership confusion into executive-level clarity that restores trust and strengthens culture | Former VP of HR

Illumination before acceleration. Alignment before movement. Before you scroll past this—pause for a moment. If 2025 felt heavy… If you carried more t

Open article: 2026 Is a Light Year (And Why Your Mind Has to Change First) by Nakisha Hicks, MBA • 3 min read

2026 Is a Light Year (And Why Your Mind Has to Change First)

Let’s talk about the real risk organizations are facing right now.
 
Not turnover.
Not engagement.
Not even culture.

It’s leadership inconsistency.

Here’s what HR leaders keep telling me:

“My frontline leaders don’t respond the same way to the same situation.”

“One manager escalates everything. Another avoids all conflict. Another overcorrects.”

“I can’t scale accountability when every leader has their own interpretation of leadership.”

And here’s the cost no one wants to say out loud:
It’s not the employees losing trust.

It’s the business losing time.

Because inconsistency slows everything:
 ➡️ Decisions.
 ➡️Communication.
 ➡️Projects.
 ➡️Performance conversations.

Most organizations don’t have a toxic culture problem —
they have a leadership dissonance problem.

A gap between what leaders intend and what their behavior communicates.

This is the gap that drains HR.
This is the gap that delays execution.
This is the gap that executives blame on “team issues” when it’s really a capability gap.


This is where strategic leadership development becomes a lever, not a perk.

When leaders have a shared framework, the business moves with alignment, not anxiety.


If you’re feeling the weight of inconsistency across your people leaders… you’re not imagining it.

💭 Where are you noticing leadership inconsistency impacting execution?

Your Organization Doesn’t Need a New Strategy, It Needs a Leadership Reset

Most organizations don’t start the year with a strategy problem.
They start with a leadership capacity problem.

Because here’s the truth:
You can’t hit new numbers with leaders who haven’t reset the behaviors, boundaries, or bandwidth that failed them last year.

A Leadership Reset looks like:
• Regulated leaders who respond instead of react
• Data-literate leaders who make decisions, not noise
• Aligned leaders whose behavior matches the culture you’re trying to build
• Clear communicators who can lead through tension
• People-first managers who don’t collapse under pressure

When these foundations shift, performance shifts.

I’ve spent the last year inside organizations watching something powerful happen:

Once leaders regulate, teams accelerate.
Once managers get aligned, execution stabilizes.
Once expectations get clarified, accountability becomes possible.

Strategy only works when the people delivering it are prepared for it.

If you want this year’s goals to land differently, your leaders have to lead differently.

💭 Is your organization actually ready to execute the strategy you set or do your leaders need a reset first?

Your Organization Doesn’t Need a New Strategy

If you hit January running but never caught your breath — this is for you.

January has a way of making leaders feel like they need to be “back on” immediately.
New goals.
New expectations.
New urgency — even when nothing has actually changed yet.


I spoke with an HR leader last week who said:

   “It doesn’t even feel like I ended 2025 — it just rolled straight into 2026.”


And that’s what this is really about.

The leaders I see struggle most in Q1 aren’t unprepared.
They’re un-reset.

They carry last year’s pressure straight into the new one.
Same patterns.
Same emotional weight.
Same reactive rhythms.

And it shows up quietly:
• Shorter patience
• Tighter shoulders
• Quicker escalation
• Less clarity in moments that need steadiness


If you saw yourself in any of those — you’re not behind.
You’re just carrying too much.


A real leadership reset doesn’t start with strategy.
It starts with asking:
👉🏽 What am I still carrying that doesn’t belong in this year?


For some leaders, it’s over-responsibility.
For others, it’s reactivity.
For many HR leaders, it’s the habit of holding everything together for everyone else.


You don’t need to fix anything today.
But you do need to notice what you’re bringing with you into the year — because your team will feel it before they hear it.


This reflection feels especially meaningful for me today —
The ElevateHer turns six years old. 🥂

Six years of helping leaders pause, reflect, and lead with more steadiness, courage, and heart.
Six years of learning that growth doesn’t always mean doing more — sometimes it means releasing what no longer fits.


Here’s to the next chapter — and to every leader choosing to lead this year lighter, clearer, and more aligned.


💭 As you settle into January:
What’s one leadership habit, pressure, or pattern you’re choosing to release before you build anything new?

Most leadership avoidance doesn’t look like fear.

It looks like:

✔️postponing a conversation you know you need to have

✔️choosing silence “to keep the peace”

✔️carrying the weight so others don’t have to

✔️telling yourself, “I’ll address it later”

This week, I spent three and half hours with a room full of capable leaders, and most every one of them was navigating this exact tension.

Not because they lacked courage.

But because they were overloaded.

Here’s what I want leaders to hear clearly:

‼️Hesitation isn’t always fear. Sometimes it’s capacity. 

And if you’re leading right now and something feels heavy, unfinished, or unresolved, you’re not alone. 

I’m opening a few private Reset Sessions for senior HR and people leaders who need space to step back, regulate, and get clear before everything accelerates again. 

💭DM me “RESET” if you want the details.

Some of your managers aren’t burning out from workload — they’re burning out from emotional labor.

And most organizations don’t even see it happening 👇🏽



Lately, HR leaders keep telling me things like:

        “My managers look confident in meetings but crumble in conflict.”

       “They’re exhausted from being everyone’s emotional first responder.”

       “I’m doing more coaching than leading at this point.”


You can feel the cracks forming:
• The manager who hesitates on decisions
• The supervisor who avoids hard conversations
• The new leader who spirals after one piece of feedback
• The team that escalates issues because they don’t trust their manager to handle it


This isn’t a performance problem.
It’s a capacity problem.

Because when managers don’t have a framework for self-management, they start leading from:
🌀 Avoidance instead of clarity
🔥 Emotion instead of principle
⚡️ Reactivity instead of regulation


And every time you jump in to “clean it up,” you absorb that cost — time, energy, retention, credibility.

Your people aren’t broken.
Your managers are just operating without a blueprint.


That’s why building leadership capacity — not just competency — matters more than ever.
Not in theory. 
Not someday. 
But right now, in 2026, when the emotional load of leadership has never been heavier.

💭 Where are you seeing capacity break down most in your managers?
👇🏾I’d love to hear what’s showing up inside your teams this quarter.

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