Welcome to EBD Collective
Building leaders who build the future
I help purpose-driven leaders and entrepreneurs grow with clarity, courage and purpose through programs that simplify complexity and unlock growth.
Because you deserve a life that fosters your peace and your potential
About Us
From business clarity to community leadership
EBD Collective was founded with one simple belief: leadership is more than a role - it's a responsibility to build futures that last.
Our programs are designed to equip people and organizations with the skills, systems and support they need to thrive. Whether you're a corporation strengthing your leadership pipeline, an entrepreneur seeking clarity in your business, or a community member pursuing opportunity, EBD Collective meets you where you are.
25+
Years Experience
This is how we'll do it
For The 50+ Woman Who's Already Done Alot
You're not new to responsibility.
You’ve led teams, managed careers, raised families, built reputations.
You’ve navigated complex spaces, made things happen, and kept everything moving — even when it cost you.
But now, you’re done building from burnout.
You’re done squeezing your vision into frameworks that don’t fit.
You don’t need hype.
You need clarity.
You’re ready for a business or platform that reflects who you are now — not who you had to be to survive the last season.
You want structure that makes sense.
A strategy that protects your peace.
A space to think clearly — without having to perform, explain, or shrink.
You want to move differently now.
And you’re looking for the right support to help you do it — with intention and real tools that work.
That’s where I come in.
No fluff. No performance.
Just grounded guidance, systems that work, and clarity that lasts.
What’s Your Next Best Move?
This 3-minute quiz reveals whether Core Essentials™ is right for you — and what to do next.
Let's build this in a way that actually works for you.
Our Programs
No more trying to force-fit yourself into rigid systems or drowning in unnecessary complexity.
Whether you're just starting to explore your options or ready to scale what you've built, we'll create a strategy that feels natural and works beautifully.
Core Essentials Program
Core Essentials™ is for high-capacity women who are ready to stop spinning and finally build a business that fits their life, values, and current season. It brings together real clarity, aligned offers, and practical systems so you can move with confidence, protect your energy, and take your next steps.
Creative Tech Concierge
Membership Community
Ever wish you had a group of smart, supportive women who totally get what you're building? It's here!
No surface-level networking here - just real connections, real support, and real growth.
Choose Your Package
Core Essentials™ Signature Program
Flex Voice Coaching
3-Month Package
$797
One-time fee
Ideal for new entrepreneurs.
3-month program duration
Receive personalized coaching support whenever you need it 24/7. Flexible, on-demand coaching
Creative Tech Concierge Inner Circle Annual Membership
Customized Entrepreneur Leadership & Sales Impact Report
Program price start $797
Plan can be extended based on your needs
Business Starter Kit
Basic Setup & Support Package
$1500
One-time fee
Ideal for coaches & consultants who want to scale operations & optimizing processes
CRM Software Account (single user) & Set up*
Custom Calendar Integrations, Dashboard, Automations and Workflow
Customized Entrepreneur Leadership & Sales Impact Report with debrief
Creative Tech Concierge Inner Circle Annual Membership
Program price $1500
Monthly Support Package available
Clarity-driven business building for women ready to
move from stuck to aligned.
$3500
One-time fee
Ideal for coaches, consultants & service-based providers who want a professional online presence, to scale operation & optimize their business processes.
FOUNDATION
Set the focus. Get clear on what you’re building and why. This is where we eliminate the noise. You define your vision, own your value, and anchor into what really matters. No more guessing. You start with clarity, not chaos.
FRAMEWORK
Build the strategy, systems, and workflows that actually fit your life. We work with you on your people, process and tech systems strategy, using tools that make sense for where you are now -- not where someone else thinks you should be.
FLOW
Connect the back end to the front end so your business actually works. This is where your tech, operations, and delivery systems come into play. You’ll walk away with streamlined, scalable system that works with you as you grow.
FORTIFY
Strengthen your presence and protect your peace. Here, we build boundaries and habits that protect your time and energy. You learn to lead from a place of wholeness, not hustle.
FELLOWSHIP
You don’t do this alone . You build in community.This is where we cultivate connection. You join a network of women who are walking the same path, not with competition but with encouragement, shared wisdom, and real accountability.
Creative Tech Concierge Membership Community for 12 months
Program starts at $3500
Payment plan available
Why Choose Us
Serving You With Excellence
Foster Leadership™
Executive coaching, Leadership development workshops and training for organizations and professionals.
Black Lineman Network®
Workforce development and mentorship initiative for individuals from under-resourced communities with professional & personal development pathways for careers in the power utility industry
Creative Tech Concierge™
Private membership community focused on human-first leadership, business strategy and simple tech systems for women professionals & entrepreneurs.
MEET THE FOUNDER & CEO
Hey, I'm Coach Dezi!
I am a coach, strategist, and leader. I created EBD Collective because I know what it feels like to lead without enough support.
My work is about helping women leaders and entrepreneurs simplify their systems, move from uncertainty to confidence, and create the impact they were made for.
Maxwell Leadership Executive Coach & Trainer
Certified Maxwell DISC Consultant
Certified Growth Leader
Six Sigma Green Belt
Desireé Foster-Collins
Principal Consultant & Founder
I spent over two decades in corporate building and leading multimillion-dollar systems and projects. Now, I help leaders like you build something far more powerful — a business that reflects your deepest purpose.
I’m Desiree Foster-Collins — Strategist and Executive Leadership Coach, and the heart behind EBD Collective. My journey has taken me from corporate leadership at one of California’s largest utility companies to coaching entrepreneurs around the country.
I’ve spent the last three decades building teams, managing complex capital projects, raising children, mentoring leaders, and helping visionaries bring structure to their brilliance and turn their expertise into revenue streams. But now, my mission is clearer than ever. I empower women both professionally and personally as a strategic problem solver, consultant and coach.
I believe entrepreneurs and small business owners are the heartbeat of communities and deserve access to the same resources, systems & tools that big businesses have at their disposal.
Through EBD Collective, I serve organizations, entrepreneurs and communities who want clarity in their vision, structure in their systems, ready to build with intention and peace in their process.
Today, I use all those years of strategic precision, cross-functional leadership, and technical know-how - to serve people like you.
Leaders who are ready to stop duct-taping their systems together.
Leaders who want to build with clarity.
Leaders who want courage, confidence and real growth.
Bring the vision. I'll help you bring it to life.
Testimonials
What They Say
What our amazing clients say about working with us
"Dezi is a servant leader. She was very thorough in explaining both the how to's of keeping our technology safe from hackers, but also clearly explained the why. She was very patient with the group and took time to respond to all questions. The demos she provided were very helpful."
Cheryl S.
Harris Sutton Enterprises
"I 100% recommend Coach Dezi for her masterful creativity, strategic business mind, her excellence in design and all things tech. She is the creative tech whisperer and has the ability to bring clarity about the use of tech tools in any business."
Cherise I.
Irons Consulting Group
"I recommend Coach Dezi to anyone who may need that push to get things done! Getting started is the easy part of starting your own business, moving up in a corporate position through promotion, etc. What is difficult is keeping momentum and motivation to keep going forward and upward when faced with obstacles and challenges.
Everyone needs a coach!"
Marla M.
The M.ARM Agency
The Leaders' Academy
Latest Blogs & Episodes
The WEF Named Three Work Trends. Here's What They Missed.
I read the World Economic Forum's latest 3 Work Trends newsletter this week, and I found myself doing what I always do with these kinds of reports: nodding at the diagnosis while questioning the prescription.
The three trends they covered are real. "Stress intelligence" in leadership. Women's sports as a talent pipeline for future leaders. And the growing AI literacy divide. Each one touches something I see playing out in my coaching work and across the industries I've spent two decades navigating.
But each one also has a blind spot. And I think the blind spot is the same across all three.
"Stress Intelligence" Is the New Leadership Buzzword.
Women Have Been Doing It for Years.
Brunswick Group just released their Leadership Stress Index, developed with Harvard Business School. The data is clear: more than half of C-suite leaders describe themselves as "very stressed," and the pressure is expected to keep climbing. Jon Miller and Drew Keller's recent piece in Harvard Business Review outlines six strategies for harnessing stress rather than being consumed by it.
Here's my question. While this is important data...
Who taught women in conference rooms to manage pressure before anyone thought to call it "intelligence"?
The women I coach have been doing this for 15, 20 years.
They held teams together through restructures. They absorbed the emotional weight of entire departments while making decisions under conditions that would crack most people. Nobody handed them a stress index or a six-step framework. They just did it. And instead of calling it intelligence, people called them "emotional" or "difficult" or "too much."
My forecast: stress intelligence isn't emerging. It's being recognized.
The women who've already been practicing it, without the credit or the language, are going to be the most valuable leaders in the room over the next decade. That is, if organizations are smart enough to actually see them instead of hiring someone younger to teach a workshop about it.
Women's Sports Is Building a Leadership Pipeline. But What's Waiting on the Other End?
Deloitte projects the women's elite global sports market will hit $3 billion this year. That's a 340% increase since 2022. Lara Abrash, Chair of Deloitte US, put it in a way I can't stop thinking about:
"Girls who play become women who lead."
Deloitte's own data backs it up. 85% of women in executive positions credit lessons from sports as major drivers of their success.
I believe that completely.
But I need us to zoom out a little bit, because the conversation keeps stopping at the pipeline and nobody wants to look at what's on the other side of it. More than three-quarters of professional women athletes earn less than $50,000 a year. We're investing in building these women into leaders and then handing them a system that doesn't match what they bring.
This pattern isn't just in sports. I see it in corporate America constantly. You develop women, give them training, hand them a leadership moment or two. Then the systems on the other end isn't built for them. The conference rooms weren't designed for how they lead. The compensation doesn't reflect their contribution. And then everyone acts confused when they walk away and build something of their own.
Here's where I think this is heading: the organizations and leagues that match their investment in developing women with the systems waiting on the other side are going to win the next era of talent.
The rest are going to keep losing people and calling it "the market."
The AI Literacy Divide Is Real. But the Framework Doesn't
Reach the People Who Need It Most.
The European Commission and OECD just released an AI Literacy Framework that maps out what learners need to thrive in an AI-driven world. Critical thinking, ethical reasoning, understanding how AI actually works. The WEF notes that the new digital divide isn't about access anymore. It's between people who understand AI and people who just consume its outputs.
I agree with every word of that and I still think it falls short.
That framework is designed for K-12 classrooms. It's built for the next generation. What about the current one?
What about the woman who's 47, managing a team, and her company just dropped three AI platforms into her workflow without explaining a single one?
What about the entrepreneur who knows she needs to be using AI but can't tell if it's actually helping her business or just making everything faster and less human? These aren't hypothetical people. I talk to them every single week.
The leaders and organizations that prioritize emotional intelligence alongside AI literacy are going to define the next era of work.
Because knowing how AI works isn't enough if you've lost the ability to think critically on your own, connect with the humans around you, and make decisions rooted in actual judgment instead of whatever the algorithm suggested.
Teaching people how to use AI without teaching them how to stay human while doing it? I wouldn't call that literacy. It looks a lot more like conformity with better tools.
What All Three Trends Are Really Pointing To
Step back and look at these together, and they're saying one thing: the future of work belongs to people who can hold complexity. People who've learned to manage their own stress while leading others through theirs. People who built leadership capacity in environments that never handed them anything. People who understand the technology well enough to use it without letting it erase their voice in the process.
I've been in rooms with these people my whole career. I've been coaching them. My honest read on where this is all going? The world is finally catching up to what experienced women have been bringing to the table all along.
The World Economic Forum is naming the trends. I'm watching the women who've already been living them.
A R T I C L E R E F E R E N C E S & S O U R C E S
1. World Economic Forum, "3 Work Trends - Issue 126," LinkedIn Pulse, July 8, 2026.
linkedin.com/pulse/3-work-trends-issue-126-world-economic-forum-4oa5e
2. Brunswick Group, "The Brunswick Leadership Stress Index," Brunswick Review, April 13, 2026.
review.brunswickgroup.com/article/brunswick-leadership-stress-index
3. Jon Miller & Drew Keller, "6 Ways Leaders Harness Stress," Harvard Business Review, July-August 2026.
hbr.org/2026/07/6-ways-leaders-harness-stress
4. Deloitte, "Game Changers: Unlocking the Potential of Women's Sports," 2026.
deloitte.com/global/en/industries/tmt/perspectives/game-changers
5. World Economic Forum, "What Women's Sports Reveals About Building Future Leaders" (Lara Abrash, Meet the Leader
podcast), 2026.
weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/womens-sports-leadership
6. World Economic Forum, "Beyond Access: Why AI Literacy Will Define the Future," July 1, 2026.
weforum.org/stories/2026/07/beyond-access-why-ai-literacy
7. OECD / European Commission, "Empowering Learners for the Age of AI: An AI Literacy Framework," June 2026.
