At Barriers to Brilliance, we empower women to lead with strength and authenticity.
Our executive leadership coaching focuses on harnessing your unique strengths while addressing the specific challenges women face in corporate environments. We provide evidence-based strategies, practical tools, and customized approaches that respect your intelligence and drive results. Together, we'll cultivate your distinctive leadership brand and set clear boundaries that enhance your impact.
Senior Operations Executive | Reverse Logistics Pioneer | Leadership Coach | Author | Founder of Barriers to Brilliance™
Felisha Renee is a powerhouse in operational leadership, executive development, and women’s empowerment. With over 20 years of experience in logistics, crisis response, and team transformation, she has led some of Amazon’s most impactful initiatives—most notably launching the company’s first-ever reverse logistics integration inside a fulfillment center and directing global emergency operations across 25+ countries and 14 languages.
As a Senior Operations Manager at Amazon, Felisha built and scaled multilingual global teams, reduced customer hold times by 13%, and delivered over $2 million in operational efficiencies—all while designing training pipelines that advanced frontline employees into leadership. Her frameworks are still in use today, supporting 24/7 incident response and performance tracking across Amazon’s worldwide fulfillment network.
She also designed and launched onboarding, retention, and succession planning systems that generated an estimated $685,000 in annual talent savings, enabling scalable hiring across global crisis operations.
Felisha is the author of Girl, If You Were a Man—a bold, no-BS leadership guide that challenges outdated workplace norms and teaches women how to claim power, visibility, and results without apology.
She is also a certified Coach of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, blending timeless principles with modern leadership science to develop strong, strategic, and self-led professionals.
Through her platform, Barriers to Brilliance™, Felisha empowers underserved and underestimated women to rise with boldness, data-backed systems, and the confidence to lead authentically. She teaches the same strategies that took her from warehouse associate to executive leadership—proving that brilliance doesn’t wait for permission.
A focused, one-on-one session to help you identify limiting beliefs, clarify your goals, and create an immediate action plan. Perfect for tackling a specific challenge or decision.
Customized coaching designed for women navigating leadership roles in corporate or entrepreneurial spaces. Build authentic influence, improve decision-making, and lead with impact.
Learn how to own your authentic self through presence, communication, and reputation-building. Ideal for career transitions or leveling up.
A targeted coaching program that helps you silence self-doubt, own your accomplishments, and show up unapologetically in rooms where you belong.
Coaching focused on working smarter with AI, burnout recovery, and creating sustainable routines that support both your ambition and your well-being.
Book Felisha Renee for empowering talks and workshops on topics like women in leadership, stereotype theory, and confidence in the workplace.
Are you ready to break through what's holding you back and step into your next level of leadership, confidence, or clarity? Take our Executive Leadership Assessment to determine your starting point when you book an initial consultation.
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