Angelina Darrisaw

Angelina is the founder and CEO of C-Suite Coach, a groundbreaking career coaching platform that provides accessible professional development content and resources to diverse, millennial professionals.

C-Suite Coach collaborates with employers to create business solutions that empower and educate teams, as well as retain and engage diverse employees. Angelina also facilitates transformative career workshops and experiences that have reached over 4,000 working and aspiring professionals in person, through outlets like outlets including: TEDx, the 2016 Democratic National Convention, WICT's National Conference, The NYC BAR Association Associate Leadership Institute, among others.

A 1st prize winner of Uber's NYC Pitch Competition, C-Suite Coach has a growing global client footprint with companies like WIX, TIAA, Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, T. Howard Foundation, and individual entrepreneurs and across the United States, Israel, Australia, Canada, and more. C-Suite Coach has been featured in numerous media outlets, including Business Insider, Fast Company, Forbes, Thrive Global, Essence, and career sites such as Levo.com, Recruiter.com and Monster.com.

Angelina, who covered Google's Thrive magazine, highlighting women business owners who partner with Google, services small businesses as a Google Digital Coach. She joins Google in bridging the digital divide, by offering free coaching and resources to over 2000 NY-based diverse small businesses.

She's helped these businesses strategically revamp their digital outreach strategies through over 60 in-person programs. She also has supported small businesses as a mentor through General Assembly's inaugural mentoring program. These efforts helped her earn "Program of The Year" by Black Googlers and Walker's Legacy Power25 award in 2017.

Prior to C-Suite Coach, she was the Senior Manager of Digital Business Development at Viacom where she developed strategic business opportunities and partnerships with social media platforms like Twitter, Snapchat, Tumblr and more. Angelina did similar digital strategy work previously at ESPN.

As a My Black is Beautiful and Pantene brand ambassador, Angelina was featured in national ads in Oprah, Ebony and Essence magazines and profiled in Buzzfeed, Huffington Post and BET.com. She has also appeared in ad campaigns for 23andMe, Hairfinity and Harvard Business School.

Angelina holds an M.A. in Management from Wake Forest University and a Certificate of Coaching from New York University. She also has a B.A. in Political Science from Davidson College. Angelina proudly serves on the board of Youth Communication, as well as the steering committee for the Alvin Ailey's Young Patrons Circle and has previously served on Wake Forest School of Business' Development Council. In 2014, she was selected as a Council of Urban Professionals Fellow for exemplary leadership. She is a two-time Top 20 finalist for Miss New York USA and a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.