Dr. Ronicka Briscoe is a nationally recognized educator, scholar, and leader with nearly twenty years of experience in leadership development. She's the founder and CEO of Winning on the Road, LLC, an organization built around elevating leaders and igniting team transformation through professional learning, executive coaching, and customized leadership development programs.

As an interdisciplinary scholar, she formally studied political science, public administration, and business on the way to her doctorate in executive leadership — with an emphasis on the lived experiences of Black women in leadership. That emphasis is the research foundation At HER Core™ is built on. Her career has taken her through the classroom as a teacher, into school administration, and onto a university faculty as a professor and department chair before she moved into consulting and executive coaching full time.

Dr. Briscoe is also a bestselling contributor to Brave Women at Work: Lessons in Leadership, author of In Relentless Pursuit of Me, and a contributor to the anthology In Relentless Pursuit of Me: Upending the Unicorn Effect, which explores what she calls the "Unicorn Effect" — the unrealistic expectations placed on Black women to excel without equal resources, pay, or recognition. It's the same throughline that runs through At HER Core™: giving women the language to describe leadership on their own terms, instead of borrowing someone else's.

• 2025 Women We Admire — Top CEOs
• 2025 New Orleans Magazine — Steel Magnolias
• 2024 Women We Admire — Top Women Leaders
• 2024 New Orleans Magazine — Women of Impact
• 2024 New Orleans CityBusiness — Woman of the Year
• 2023 Xavier University of Louisiana — 40 Under 40
• 2023 Teach For America — Community Leader of the Year
• 2022 New Orleans CityBusiness — Woman of the Year
• 2022 University of Holy Cross — Community Service Award

Beyond At HER Core™, Dr. Briscoe runs Winning on the Road, LLC — executive coaching, customized professional development, and leadership team retreats — and already sells the companion In Relentless Pursuit Workbook directly through her site. Full details at drronickabriscoe.com.

Outside the office, Dr. Briscoe promotes sustainable community change through board service, and is President-Elect of Loyola University's Women's Leadership Academy Advisory board.

Who you are at your core will always shape how you lead.

In At HER Core™: Her Leadership. Her Language. Her Lens., scholar, author, and practitioner Dr. Ronicka Briscoe introduces readers to a groundbreaking women's leadership framework built from her original research. Dr. Briscoe reframes four traditional leadership theories through the lens of women and introduces four new approaches, eight core attributes, and seventeen distinct leadership blends that reflect the way women actually lead. Readers are taken on a journey through their own leadership — with an opportunity to reflect deeply and think intentionally about how they show up. At HER Core isn't about boxing women in. It's about giving them space to be intentional about how they describe their leadership.

At HER Core™ gives women the precise language for the leadership they have always practiced.

Leadership clarity doesn't come from a single moment. It comes from a better understanding of who you are, why you make the choices you make, and being honest with yourself.

The At HER Core Leadership Journal is a companion to the book and the assessment, designed to take you deeper into the leadership identity you have already begun to uncover. One hundred reflective prompts. One hundred quotes from women. These prompts invite you to spend the much needed time with yourself; examining the values and identity that live beneath your titles, understanding your Core Approach and Amplifier, naming the eight attributes you already carry, and identifying the strengths that belong only to you.

The journal does not stop at the good parts. It goes where most leadership tools won't. Into how you lead, how others interpret your leadership, and the gap and realities in between. Into how you move through difficulty. Into what failure has taught you that success never could. And finally, into the forward movement that is only possible when you have done the honest work of naming yourself first.

This journal is about becoming more honest with yourself. The prompts do not ask who you want to be. They ask who you already are and whether you are moving toward what actually matters.