WAKE UP FROM YOUR DREAMS AND LIVE
Life or Career Coaching
Identify your goals & achieve them
We work with clients who are good at what they do but seek to raise themselves to the next level. Are you ready to become an entrepreneur? Are you ready to move from an average employee to the top? Are you struggling with a relationship? It may just be all of the above. After we help you discover what you want, we'll work together to find the best way to achieve it. We custom design a program that will change your life. We have proven success. Let's start with an in-depth Zoom to see if it's a fit.
Passion for People Seminars
In these mini seminars, you will be challenged to see your world through a different lens. We will explore how we are all interconnected. Participants will learn how racism, gender, sexuality, and oppression, all overlap and in many cases serve to harm marginalized communities. A deeper understanding of this reality from a historical and practical perspective is paramount for a more just society. You will be better equipped to address the tensions we currently face in our society.
Classes are limited to 12 participants for optimal learning. Please contact us to customize a training for your organization.
Length of Seminars - Two, 90-minute virtual classes. There is an expectation that work is done between classes.
Class Sizes are kept small for optimal discussion opportunities.
Seminars offered
- Intersectionality: We will explore how so many micro and macro aggressions are foundational in not seeing a whole person. Each person has their own experience that we must be taught to see. The student will be taught to see the entirety of another, making them a stronger advocate in the fight for justice.
- What About Reparations?: Reparations for the harms done to African Americans in the United States has been ignored, undercut, underfunded, sidelined, and denied, when so many other cultures and races of people have been offered repair. Students will explore how reparations has been offered others and ways in which we can deepen our understanding of what reparations are.
- The Immigrant Experience: Students will explore the hows and whys of the immigrant experience. We don't have a border problem. We have a USA supremacy problem. Power and Greed are at its core. Students will hear from voices of hope.
- Colors of Art: Margaret Wolfe Hungerford is coined with the phrase, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Students will explore art, music, architecture, and film through the eyes of people of the global majority, and how these different art forms have shaped cultures of the people but has been left out of the definition of mainstream art forms.
- Implicit Bias: This seminar introduces participants to insights about how our minds function while gaining an understand of the origins of implicit associations. Participants will find their own biases and learn strategies for addressing them.
- Navigating Systems of Poverty: This training is an encompassing approach to understanding the multifaceted reasons of the cause and maintenance of poverty from an individual to a systemic level. Participants will study the research;
experience a simulation, and analyze poverty through a lens of unspoken rules.
Time of Classes - TBA
Cost of each Seminar - $150.00 per person
What we do

- Have you made a commitment to diversify your leadership?
- Have you made the commitment to hear minority voices in more affirming ways?
- Do you personally lead a diverse group of people and you want to improve upon your communication skills?
- Has your team read the top ten books, now what?
- Does your house of worship want to be more welcoming in practice and prayer?
- Have you been told that it is not the responsibility of those who have been oppressed to fix the problems but you have some questions you want to ask ?
- Strengthen your management team by allowing us to teach them to lead.
Now is the time
Grow your community
- Assess your current business strategy and environment.
- Identify your goals and objectives.
- Develop your strategic plan and determine performance metrics.
- Implement and share your plan.
- Revise and restructure as needed.
Friendly support
We tailor our work to your needs
ABOUT OUR TEAM
Montressa Barbee-Watkins, partner and CEO of Global Alliance Marketing brings over 30 years of experience in marketing to this work. Her areas of expertise include broadcast marketing, digital marketing, website design, and content writing. She is committed to outstanding results and effective communication strategies that work.
Montressa is a certified executive coach. She is a seasoned executive coach renowned for her transformative approach to leadership development. With over two decades of experience in coaching, she has established herself as a trusted advisor to leaders across diverse industries. Montressa is the most enthusiastic person you will ever meet.
She is married to Floretta Barbee-Watkins. They have one daughter, and three grandchildren. Montressa and Floretta are world travelers and avid campers. They enjoy traveling abroad to exotic destinations and they like to experience the wonder and beauty of the United States in their RV.

Tonya Barbee, MBA
Tonya Barbee has dedicated her life to the field of education, with over four decades of experience in project management and compliance. Tonya is the founder of I Am Still a Rose, LLC, a platform to empower and inspire individuals through books, coaching, speaking engagements, and inspirational apparel for both men and women.
Her expertise and life story have been highlighted in numerous media outlets, including My LYFF Story, Goodreads, Renee Wiggins’ Blog Radio Show, Push-It News, Scoop USA Newspaper, multiple radio stations in the MD area, Black News, Authors Chat with Allison, and Queenie’s Book Talk and Reviews, as well as her own podcast, Barbee’s Real Talk.
Tonya uses her experience and training to coach others who are going through similar experiences. She has also established herself as a leader, a project manager, and a non-anxious presence for others. Tonya’s vulnerability, honesty, and sensitivity make her the powerhouse she is.
Tonya is an active member and president of her Toastmasters’ Go Pro Club. She is also a proud Eta Phi Beta Sorority, Epsilon Zeta Chapter member.
To learn more about her multiple publications, and additional work, visit her website at www.tonyabarbee.com
The Experience
