Her genuine warmth and spiritual energy create an instant sense of familiarity and trust. As an artist, strategist, orator, and producer, she seamlessly bridges people and ideas, inspiring those around her to embrace their humanity in an often artificial world. Her vast experience in creative strategy, alliance-building, and fundraising makes her an invaluable partner in community-focused work.

She’s an excellent orator that commands attention because she’s so uniquely and unapologetically herself.

Global Brand + Marketing Strategist 
Founder, Sound Mind Theory

Pi-Isis Ankhra is a rare blend of grounded wisdom and creative brilliance. Fiercely independent and consistently selfless, she brings her refined artistic sensibilities and humanitarian values to every endeavor. Pi-Isis’s work, deeply influenced by her education and family background, focuses on empowering Black and Brown communities through creative expression and strategic action.

Pi-Isis embodies quiet power, weaving together her vast expertise to create transformative change. Her legacy is one of successful entrepreneurship and unwavering commitment to human potential.

First Lady of the State of Maryland

Pi-Isis Ankhra brings a fresh perspective to organizations, uncovering hidden potential and charting paths to new possibilities. With a rare combination of intelligence, humor, and sincerity, she puts clients at ease while tackling seemingly insurmountable challenges. Her ability to build confidence and provide clarity of thought enables leaders and organizations to identify specific goals and create actionable plans to achieve them.

Whenever I talk to an organizational leader who seeks transformative change in their organization, I suggest they contact Pi-Isis.

Executive Director, Black Public Media 
Artistic Director New Era Creative Space 
President, New York Women in Film and Television Board of Directors

She effortlessly elevates people around her to see beyond the limitations of their current circumstances and gain awareness of what’s truly possible for themselves, their work, and their lives.

She disarms the guarded, tends to the concerned, excites the jaded, empowers the fearful, and weaves together possibilities in ways that people have never dreamed of, leaving them inspired and empowered to move out of fear and into action.

Executive & Leadership Coach

She’s an activist at heart who excels at translating ideas into action. She cares deeply about people and social issues, and is dedicated to making sure there’s good in the world. She is one of our greatest philanthropic minds at the intersection of philanthropy, social causes, and storytelling.

I would never have been able to stand where I’m standing with the level of confidence and clarity I have without her and the leadership skills that she poured into me over the last 10 years of our work together. I am deeply appreciative of her mentorship. She has significantly impacted my life and work.

SVP of Institutional Advancement, The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

With extensive experience in multiple arenas, her unique lens and authentic, intersectional voice will move your thinking and work forward on complex social issues in unexpected ways.

I wholeheartedly recommend her to any leadership team that wants to meaningfully engage its stakeholders, advance its equity and justice goals, and blaze new trails.

Executive Search Consultant

The greatest value she brings to my business, creativity and life starts with the way she really listens. The way she asks very insightful questions that mostly lead you to your own answers, but she also offers possibilities to consider. It’s never “telling”, it’s more about invitation. The “river” is also about her deep curiosity around our humanity. And…..she is wicked funny.

“She is a deep river with many layers, entrepreneur, coach, artist..and she lets you discover them over time.

Architect, Musician, Philanthropist

I have watched her evolve a narrative about the placement and role humanity plays in business, which in turn has become the very fabric and center of her work. I will say when we first met, there was not a strong appetite (in the world at large) for this perspective because hustle culture was in full effect. But she is a pioneer, one of the few who can feel the trends in her body. She has an ability to see what life could be like and then shows up courageously, inviting others into the vision.

She is a curator and cultivator of great souls.

Founder, Dream Development