Laura Tshilumba, CPA, HMCC

Laura is a Certified Public Accountant with 20 years of expertise in U.S. international taxation.

One of Laura's core strengths lies in her ability to advise on global mobility and expatriate tax issues. Her keen insights into these areas enable her to assist individuals in understanding the tax impact of their global footprints, and businesses in managing their international workforces effectively. She provides strategic solutions that align with the ever-evolving tax laws and regulations, allowing clients to optimize their tax positions while ensuring compliance.

Leveraging her CPA background, Laura also brings her expertise to financial coaching by helping BIPOC women entrepreneurs design tax-efficient business structures to legally minimize taxes. She guides them in achieving financial readiness and success, understanding cash flows, and applying tax provisions to their businesses, enabling them to save money and scale sustainably.

Motivated by her own journey to thrive mentally, spiritually, and physically in high-demand environments, Laura became a certified health mindset coach and an integrative health nutrition coach (lovingly known as “Coach LT”). In 2021, she launched her health and wellness business, which later evolved into “Your Now Body, LLC”. This evolution reflects her understanding that just as life has seasons, so do our bodies.

Through Your Now Body, LLC, Laura empowers BIPOC executive women, entrepreneurs, and leaders to implement self-care regimens that help them manage stress, prevent burnout, resulting in enhanced performance, visibility, and leadership opportunities, all while maintaining their mental health and enjoying their cultural foods.

Married with two children, Laura intimately understands the integration of family, career, and wellness, inspiring women to thrive in their "now body."

Yemi Falayajo

With over 25 years of work experience and 19 years of UN experience, Yemi has led global, regional, and national development and several multinational teams in ensuring that resources are mobilized and utilized for UN work. She has worked in nine countries—Africa, Asia, and the USA—and has held several senior management roles. She is currently the Deputy Representative of UN Women in Liberia.

Yemi is an associate pastor of the Stone Churches. She and her husband, Kola, co-pastor the Abuja branch, which they have been pastoring for 23 years.

She is an Iconic Womanhood coach who loves to make people feel seen, heard, and valued. She helps them see clarity in their purpose and supports them in striving to achieve the goals they have set for themselves.

Yemi enjoys traveling, journaling, music, worshipping, coaching, and spending quality time with family.

DeShawn Dominique Jenkins

As a Global Cultural Competency Coach, DeShawn Dominique Jenkins leverages her extensive international experience and strategic acumen to advise organizations and individuals on navigating cultural nuances and fostering global partnerships.

With a background deeply rooted in nonprofit management, leadership development, women’s entrepreneurship, and social justice, DeShawn brings a unique perspective to her consultancy, D.D. Jenkins Global Consulting.

She specializes in connecting institutions and amplifying impactful ideas, drawing on her rich network and firsthand knowledge of diverse cultural protocols gained through collaborations with celebrities and dignitaries worldwide.