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
You Don't Need Another Strategy. You Need a Clarity Blueprint.
I can almost guarantee you've done this. You sat down on a Sunday night with a notebook, maybe a glass of wine, and tried to "figure out" your business. You made a list. Goals for the quarter. Revenue targets. Content ideas. Launch timelines. A vision board, possibly. And by Wednesday, none of it felt right anymore.
Not because the ideas were bad. But because the foundation wasn't clear. You were building a strategy on top of confusion, and strategy on top of confusion just makes organized confusion.
I've been there and I've watched many women be there too. Brilliant, experienced, deeply capable women who could run a department in their sleep but couldn't get their own business to feel like it was moving in one direction. And it's not because they lacked ambition or intelligence. It's because nobody taught them the step that comes before strategy.
Clarity.
The Gap Nobody Warns You About
When you leave corporate, or when corporate leaves you, there's a gap that opens up. Not a skill or knowledge gap but an identity gap.
In your career, you had a title, a team, a reporting structure, a set of expectations that told you what success looked like. You might not have loved all of it, but it gave you somewhere to put your energy.
Entrepreneurship doesn't give you that container. You have to build it yourself and most women try to build it by copying what they see other people doing. They buy a course. They hire a coach who gives them someone else's framework. They launch something before they've figured out what they actually want to build.
I'm not criticizing any of those moves, by the way. I've done some of them myself. But what I know now that I didn't know then is that the real work of entrepreneurship doesn't start with strategy. It starts with clarity about who you are, what you're building, and why it matters to you specifically.
What a Clarity Blueprint Actually Is
A business plan is a document you write to explain your business to someone else, a bank, an investor, a partner. A clarity blueprint is something you write for yourself.
It answers the questions that keep you spinning:
Who am I building this for? Not in a "target audience" marketing sense. In a "whose problem do I actually understand from the inside out" sense.
What do I bring that's mine? Not what I learned in a course. What I lived. What I've carried. What I can do in my sleep because I've done it for 20 years.
What am I willing to hold, and what am I done carrying? This is a boundary question, and it's the one that trips up the most women. Because high-capacity women are used to holding everything. The transition into entrepreneurship isn't about holding more. It's about choosing what's worth the weight.
What does enough look like for me? What does aligned, honest-to-God enough look like in your actual life?
When you can answer those questions, strategy stops feeling like a guessing game. It becomes an extension of something you already know. You're not choosing between five funnels and three platforms and two pricing models from a place of panic. You're choosing from a place of clarity. And clarity is a completely different energy to build from.
Why Women Over 50 Need This More Than Anyone
I'm going to say something that might sound counterintuitive. The more experience you have, the harder clarity can be.
You could go in fifteen different directions and be stellar in all of them and that's exactly the problem.
Competence without clarity creates the illusion of progress. You're busy. You're productive. You're moving. But you're not building.
Brené Brown once said, "Clear is kind." I think that applies to the way we treat ourselves too. Being clear about what you're building isn't limiting. It's kind. It protects your energy. It protects your time. It protects your confidence, because you stop second-guessing yourself when you know why you're doing what you're doing.
The women who come to me at 50, 55, 70, they don't need more information. They need someone to help them sort through everything they already know and find the signal in the noise. That's what a clarity blueprint does. It takes all of that accumulated wisdom and gives it structure for YOU... not someone's else's.
Clarity Is Not a One-Time Event
I want to push back on something the coaching industry does a lot. They sell clarity like it's a destination. "Get clear and everything falls into place." That's not how it works.
Clarity is a practice. It's something you return to when a new opportunity shows up and you're not sure if it fits.
When a client asks for something that's outside your lane and you feel the pull to say yes because the money's good. When your business grows and the things that used to work start feeling heavy.
I can hear the gallery now "Well Dezi.. you do what you gotta do!" That sounds great until the resentment, doubt and other people's opinions kick in and you begin to question why you're doing what you decided to do in the first place.
A clarity blueprint isn't something you make once and frame. It's a living document. It evolves as you evolve. But the foundation of it, who you are, what you carry, what you're not willing to compromise, that stays.
If I'm being honest that foundation is what separates the women who build something they love from the women who build something that looks successful but feels like another version of the job they left.
What This Has to Do With Holding What You Build
You can build a business. Most of the women I work with already have, or they're well on their way. But can you hold it? Can you sustain it without burning out, without losing yourself in it, without waking up two years from now wondering how you ended up carrying the same weight you were supposed to leave behind?
That's the real question and the answer starts with clarity. Not strategy. Not tactics. Not a better CRM or a bigger audience. Clarity about what you're building and whether it can hold you as much as you're holding it.
Because the goal isn't just to build. It's to build something you don't have to escape from.
Brené Brown — "Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind." from Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. (2018, p. 48) https://brenebrown.com/book/dare-to-lead/Supporting
Provoked Magazine — "The Fastest-Growing Entrepreneurs in the World? Women Over 50" (Mar 2026)
https://provokedmagazine.com/the-fastest-growing-entrepreneurs-in-the-world-women-over-50/
Kauffman Foundation — "Entrepreneurs of a Certain Age, in This Uncertain Time" (Dec 2025)
https://www.kauffman.org/currents/entrepreneurs-of-a-certain-age-uncertain-time/
LeanIn.org / McKinsey — "Women in the Workplace 2025" https://leanin.org/women-in-the-workplace
Harvard Business Review — "What to Do When Your Senior Role Feels Totally Unsustainable" (Jan 2026)
https://hbr.org/2026/01/what-to-do-when-your-senior-role-feels-totally-unsustainable
