Our Team

  • DR. JENNIFER MESSINA | FOUNDER + CO-CEO

    With 25 years of clinical, consulting & training experience, Jennifer Messina, Ph.D. has collaborated with leaders and their teams across a range of industries to actualize their potential, enhance communication, and promote positive change across their organizations.

    Jen's competence-based approach is highly interpersonal – striving to harness and build health and positivity in individuals and systems. She brings a strong understanding of organizational dynamics and a flexible, collaborative style that drives meaningful change.

    A graduate of Dartmouth College (’93) & UVA (Masters ’94, Doctorate ’99 in Clinical Psychology), Jen is the founder of Messina Leadership Advising & FORTE.

  • DOMONIQUE WORSHIP | Consulting COO

    Drawing on her formal coaching training and experience as a D&I executive and corporate lawyer, DOMONIQUE WORSHIP provides custom leadership advising, consulting and training to executives and rising leaders across a broad range of industries. Domonique's holistic approach facilitates transformation of her clients' perspective, performance and mental and emotional well-being, empowering them to tap into their full potential and perform at their highest level. Domonique supports her clients in cultivating self-awareness and executive leadership presence, developing a strategic road map and taking action to turn their vision into a reality.

    Domonique earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A. from the University of Florida. She holds an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential via the Co-Active Training Institute.

  • ALIXE BOYER | LEADERSHIP ADVISOR

    With 20+ years leading dynamic, results-driven teams in global brands, and formal training in leadership and performance coaching, Alixe has deep expertise in navigating people dynamics, growing businesses, and high-pressure, high-performance cultures.

    As a professional woman, she understands the nuances of when to pivot, how to navigate professional challenges she built her coaching practice to advance female leadership, both personally and professionally. For women to lead, innovate and thrive in their lives and to work in collaboration with men.

    Alixe holds the LPCC Credential (Leadership and Performance Coaching Certification) from Brown University School for Professional Studies, a program grounded in developmental psychology and neuroscience. It is an accredited program by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), of which she is an active member.

FORTE is founded in the belief that:

…the human mind is a source of extraordinary power and potential for good.

…when actualized, individuals will share their gifts to drive innovation, genius and joy.

…people will step into whatever space we create for them and if we let them, they will often delight us.

…with power comes responsibility and those with privilege and power must operate with great kindness and intentionality.

…diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives add wisdom and enrich all we do.

…the world will be transformed when we build ecosystems designed to remove all unnecessary obstacles to actualizing human potential.

…rather than any one person or approach holding all the answers - it is collective wisdom, disciplined inquiry, and creativity that will truly transform the world.

…when we have full agency, operate with intentionality, humility and self-awareness we can actualize our potential and astound ourselves

…the world can be better, and we currently in it, so let’s do this thing.

xo Jen