SICRE Presents: Shawnta Hooks

**Presence Is the Hack™: A Leadership Reset for Black Women Navigating Rooms That Weren’t Built for Us**

Because surviving the space and staying yourself shouldn't be mutually exclusive.

What if your nervous system had more influence over your career than your résumé?

This is not your typical panel.

This is Badu meets Brené Brown on a rooftop.

It’s a sacred reset for high-achieving Black women who are tired of performing peace and are finally ready to feel it.

In this live rooftop session, CPA turned author and belonging strategist Shawntà Hooks leads us through a powerful conversation rooted in science, soul, and lived experience.

We’ll unpack the real cost of over-functioning in white male-dominated spaces.

We’ll challenge the cultural dissonance around rest and self-regulation.

And we’ll learn how presence—not performance—is the most radical leadership tool we’ve got.

✨ Expect:

• A sacred fireside-style chat with real talk on stress, belonging, burnout, and survival

• Guided breathwork to downshift your nervous system

• A soulful sound bath to help you feel instead of perform

• A live journaling ritual to reclaim your voice

• A nature-based pause to reset your pace and perspective

✨ *You’ll leave with:*

• Tools to shift from reaction to regulation in real time

• A nervous system “leadership hack” you can use anywhere

• Permission to reset without apology—and success without over-efforting

• A deeper understanding of your own internal wiring—and how to honor it

This isn’t a session—it’s a ceremony.

And the clarity you walk away with might just change how you lead, love, and live.

Come for the affirmations. Stay for the science. Leave with your nervous system soothed, your clarity activated, and your sense of self intact.

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👑 Bio:

Shawntà Hooks is a keynote speaker, belonging strategist, and nervous system educator who helps high-achieving professionals biohack burnout with mindfulness, meaning, and a bit of magic.

A former Fortune 100 executive with a 20-year career in finance, risk, and AI transformation, Shawntà took a pivotal sabbatical following a workplace trauma that forever reshaped how she views leadership, wellness, and worth. What began as her own healing journey evolved into a calling—to help others regulate from within and lead from wholeness.

She is the founder of The Clarity Lab™ community and author of Presence Is the Hack™: A Nervous System Survival Guide for a World That Wasn’t Built for You to Rest, which drops soon. Whether speaking at major conferences or guiding rooftop resets, Shawntà is known for helping people stop performing strength—and start practicing it.