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
When AI Does the Work, Who Does the Thinking?
You've probably heard it by now. AI can write your emails, build your website, run your social media, schedule your calendar, and draft your business plan before you finish your morning coffee.
And if you're a woman who spent 20-plus years in corporate, managing teams and running operations and solving problems that didn't have names yet, you might be looking at all of this and thinking: "So what exactly is my value now?"
That's the question nobody's talking about honestly. Because the tech industry wants to sell you on speed. On efficiency. On doing more in less time. And listen, I'm not against any of that. I use AI every day. I built part of my business with it. But there's a difference between using a tool and being replaced by one. And the women I work with are smart enough to know the difference, even if the market isn't making it easy to see.
The Real Conversation We Should Be Having
McKinsey published a report in early 2025 estimating that generative AI could automate up to 30% of hours currently worked in the U.S. economy by 2030. That's not a future prediction anymore. It's happening in real time. Companies are restructuring. Roles are consolidating. And a lot of the women getting pushed out aren't being pushed out because they weren't good at their jobs. They're being pushed out because someone decided a bot could do it cheaper.
But here's what I've seen in the conference room and in the coaching room: the women who thrive through this shift aren't the ones who learn the most tools. They're the ones who know what no tool can replicate.
Judgment. Discernment. The ability to read a room. The instinct to know when something looks right on paper but feels wrong in practice. That's emotional intelligence. And it's the one thing AI genuinely cannot do.
AI Is Not the Threat. The Absence of You Is.
I want to be careful here because I'm not interested in being anti-technology. That's not the point. The point is that we've been so busy learning what AI can do that we forgot to ask what it shouldn't do.
It shouldn't make your decisions. It shouldn't set your boundaries. It shouldn't tell you which client is right for you or when it's time to pivot or how to hold a hard conversation with someone who's unraveling. Those are human things. Those require the kind of intelligence that doesn't come from data. It comes from decades of navigating complexity as a person, not a processor.
I've talked to women who feel behind because they haven't mastered ChatGPT yet. And I've talked to women who've automated everything and still feel disconnected from their own business. Both are stuck. Just in different ways.
The sweet spot isn't more AI or less AI. It's AI with emotional intelligence leading the way.
What Smarter Actually Looks Like
When I say AI can help women build smarter, I don't mean faster funnels and prettier graphics (though those are nice). I mean this:
AI handles the volume so you can focus on the value.
You didn't spend two decades learning to manage people and navigate conflict and hold pressure so you could spend your entrepreneurial season formatting spreadsheets. You did that work so you could bring something to the table that no one else can. Your insight. Your pattern recognition. Your ability to see what's actually happening underneath the metrics.
That's what building smarter means. It means using the tool for what the tool does best, and protecting the space for what only you can do.
A few things that looks like in real life:
Let AI draft the first version. You bring the voice, the nuance, the lived experience that makes it yours. Let it organize your data. You interpret what the data means for your client. Let it streamline your operations. You stay close enough to know when something's off, because you'll feel it before the dashboard shows it.
That's the balance. And it's not something you have to learn from a course. You already have the EQ side.
You've been building that your whole career. Now you just need the right tools to match it.
Why This Matters More for Women Over 50
Here's something that doesn't get said enough. The women who are most at risk of being sidelined by AI are also the women who have the most to offer alongside it.
If you're 50 or older, you've lived through technological shifts before. You remember when email changed everything. When the internet reorganized entire industries. When smartphones made the 9-to-5 obsolete. You adapted then, and you can adapt now.
But this time, the adaptation isn't just technical. It's philosophical. It's about deciding that your experience, your emotional depth, your ability to hold complexity with grace, those things don't become less valuable just because a machine can write a paragraph. They become more valuable. Because in a world flooded with AI-generated content and automated interactions, the human touch is the differentiator.
The woman who walks into a coaching session and actually listens, not just processes, but listens? She's irreplaceable. The leader who can sit in silence with a team that's struggling and hold space instead of rushing to a solution? No algorithm is coming for her job.
The Invitation
I'm not going to tell you that you need to go learn ten new AI tools this week. You don't. I'm also not going to tell you to ignore what's happening. That's not smart either.
What I will say is this: the women I work with who are building the strongest businesses right now are the ones who've stopped asking "How do I keep up with AI?" and started asking "How do I lead alongside it?"
That's a better question. And the answer is already inside the work you've done, the rooms you've held, the decisions you've made when nobody was watching and the stakes were high.
AI can help you build smarter. But it can't build what you build. Not the trust. Not the relationships. Not the kind of leadership that changes someone's trajectory because you saw something in them before they saw it themselves.
That's your lane and it's not going anywhere.
McKinsey Global Institute — "Generative AI and the Future of Work in America" https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/generative-ai-and-the-future-of-work-in-america
McKinsey Global Institute — "A New Future of Work: The Race to Deploy AI and Raise Skills in Europe and Beyond" https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/a-new-future-of-work-the-race-to-deploy-ai-and-raise-skills-in-europe-and-beyond
Stimson Center — "The Glass Ceiling Goes Digital: How AI May Write Women Out of Work"
https://www.stimson.org/2025/the-glass-ceiling-goes-digital-how-ai-may-write-women-out-of-work/
United Nations / ILO — "AI Threatens One in Four Jobs" https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/05/1163486
Forrester — "Leading With Intention: What Women Leaders Told Us About AI and the Future of Work"
