Dr. Mayme Doumbia is a leadership and culture strategist, executive coach, and founder of Xcelsior Coaching & Consulting, based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. She helps organizations build high-trust, high-performance teams by bridging research in industrial and organizational psychology with real-world leadership experience.
Mayme holds a PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, where her research focused on how employees experience culture and commitment during times of disruption and change. She has coached and trained leaders at multiple levels, from emerging managers to senior executives, on topics such as trust, influence, communication, and navigating change without burning people out.
Known for her clear, practical style, Mayme combines data, stories, and real-life scenarios to make leadership concepts usable, not theoretical. Her sessions help leaders see how their everyday decisions shape culture, and give them tools to lead with greater clarity, accountability, and integrity.
2 topics · no fee, no honorarium, no mileage
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Leaders today are being asked to do more with less while their people are navigating stress, change fatigue, and uncertainty about the future. This presentation speaks directly to that reality. Drawing from her doctoral research on culture and organizational commitment, Dr. Doumbia unpacks how pressure, rapid change, and mixed messages can unintentionally damage trust and loyalty, even when leaders are trying their best.
She offers a grounded, compassionate approach to leading through challenging times that doesn’t sacrifice people in the name of performance. Participants will explore how to communicate hard decisions with honesty and empathy, how to keep culture from becoming “collateral damage” during change, and how to care for themselves as leaders so they can show up with clarity, steadiness, and integrity when it matters most.
Most leaders underestimate how much their everyday choices shape the culture around them. This presentation explores the “hidden power” of influence, the subtle signals leaders send through their tone, follow-through, boundaries, and behavior, especially under pressure. Drawing on real examples and research from industrial and organizational psychology, Dr. Doumbia breaks down how culture is formed not only by big initiatives and values statements, but by what leaders consistently reward, ignore, and model.
Participants will learn a simple lens for spotting the cultural messages they send (often without realizing it), how to close the gap between their intent and their impact, and three practical shifts they can make immediately to strengthen trust, credibility, and alignment on their teams.
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