DR. COURNEY WALTON

Dr. Courtney L. Walton is a dedicated executive and liberatory leader focused on building inclusive environments, coaching leaders, and advancing DEI initiatives. Through her doctoral research on stress in Black female leaders, she promotes strategies to mitigate racialized trauma, empowering individuals to embrace healing, personal growth, and authentic leadership. As the founder of brwnplace, Courtney offers coaching and consulting to elevate the lived experiences of Black women, encouraging self-discovery, confidence, and the reclamation of space. Her work integrates scholarship, storytelling, and art to inspire liberation and transformation.

My Story

Dr. Courtney L. Walton is an established executive-lliberatoryr committed to building inclusive environments, coaching emerging and established leaders, developing impactful content and advancing DEI initiatives. Her doctoral research focused on examining anticipatory and acculturative stress in Black female leaders and elevating strategies on how to mitigate the impact of racialized trauma and racial battle fatigue when entering and exiting the workplace.

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Courtney is dedicated to elevating empathetic and embodied leadership, helping individuals prioritize healing, personal growth, and self-discovery. Part of Courtney’s mission is to empower individuals, especially those in marginalized groups and those growing in greater confidence, to live more fulfilling and whole lives. She aims to create accessible resources and spaces where people can develop skills, overcome barriers, and embrace their true selves with confidence, integrity and authenticity. She desires for the full expression of her scholarship to be tethered to the process of unveiling, magnifying, and de-marginalizing stories, voices, and data.

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Courtney is the founder of brwnplace, a consulting firm that specializes in coaching, training, speaking and thought partnership catering to the elevation of a more enriched lived experience for Black women. She deeply values words and is very intentional with how she uses them to make meaning, tell stories, be a catalyst for intellectual curiosity, encourage personal revelation, serve as a balm of healing, and merge art with scholarship. Dr. Walton’s work inspires individuals to embrace a liberatory, living, and personal learning journey that invites reclamation and redefining of space and place with joy, light and love.