BETTER THINKING. BIGGER LEADERSHIP.

The promotion. The confidence. The impact.

It all starts with how you think. And that’s my whole thing.

I’m Dr. Kelsey Medeiros (you can call me Kels): organizational psychologist, author of Painted Wolves, and your brilliant bestie with a PhD.

I help women build the thinking skills for exceptional leadership. Because when you change how a leader thinks, you change everything she does.

Out of date. Expired. Stale.

That's the leadership advice you've been given your whole career. Do this. Say that. Follow these steps. And where has it gotten you?

You're still the hardest worker in the room. Still being overlooked. Still watching someone less qualified get the opportunity you earned.

The problem was never your work ethic. It's that no one ever taught you the thing that actually matters: how to think like a leader.

Not what to say in a meeting. Not how to 'lean in.' How to actually think — strategically, confidently, and in a way that moves the room.

My approach to leadership development focuses on three key principles:

  1. For women. Not adapted for women. BUILT for women. Women experience leadership differently. The pressures, the expectations, the double standards. So I built something from the ground up for how women actually lead. Not a pink version of a men's program.

  2. Research, not vibes. My Painted Wolf Leadership Framework is grounded in peer-reviewed research on leadership, cognition, and how women lead. No motivational fluff. No one person's opinion dressed up as a methodology. Just science that works. (And I make it fun, I promise.)

  3. Your crew is waiting. Women thrive when other women have their back. Inside Like a Leader you'll find ambitious women who get it — the pressure, the double standards, the 'am I enough?' spiral, all of it. Part accountability group, part group chat, part wine-night-with-your-smartest-friends energy. Because growth happens when smart women think out loud together.

How We Do It: The Painted Wolf 💅🏽🐺 Leadership Model

Five skills.
One rewired mind.

Doing “all the things” got you here.

Thinking like a leader gets you promoted.

My signature Painted Wolf Leadership Framework rewires how you think — five cognitive skills that shift you from the hardest worker in the room to the leader nobody can ignore.

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