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Abbiola｜People Leadership Coach, Facilitator & Speaker

@pherneducationstudios

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✨ Helping Leaders Navigate Uncomfortable Conversations at Work
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You don’t need more rigid scripts for uncomfortable workplace conversations. You need room to think through the nuance, pressure, power dynamics, and competing needs that make those conversations hard in the first place. 🎉 The CLEARER Conversations™ Lab is back this August. It is a small group leadership lab for people who want a clearer way through the conversations that shape trust, teams, and outcomes. Over two virtual sessions, we will make space to pause, notice what is underneath the conversation, and explore how you want to respond with more intention. You will leave with a flexible approach you can return to, more clarity around what is asking for your attention, and a deeper understanding of how to move through uncomfortable conversations without defaulting to urgency. 🗓️ August 13 + 20 🕣 8:30 a.m. PT / 11:30 a.m. ET 💻 Two-part virtual Lab · 3 hours each 👥 Maximum 8 participants Learn more and apply at pherneducationstudios.com. Link in bio. 💬 Please share this with a leader or colleague who is tired of trying to figure out the hard stuff alone. by @pherneducationstudios
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4 months ago
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I did a thing, friends!!! Last year, I hosted a series of live conversations on LinkedIn with some truly amazing humans. Those conversations are now on the Lime, Listen & Learn: The People Leadership Lounge Podcast!!! A lime is a Trinidadian (and wider Caribbean) term for hanging out, chatting and just vibing with each other. No scripts. Just seeing where the conversation takes us! And that is the spirit of these conversations! Each episode explores the people side of leadership. Power. Identity. Belonging. Team dynamics. The conversations that shape how we work and lead, even when they’re not always easy or tidy. All of the 2025 episodes are now live and ready to binge (links in bio): 🎧 Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts 📺 Watch on YouTube Listen. Watch. Follow. Subscribe. Comment. So grateful for my guests who limed with me in 2025: @rebeccalynnwrites, @minettenorman, @freshandfearless_uk, @emily_pantel, @thebestnotaries, @gerondawollackspiller, Laura Jordan, Dr. Ruth Diaz Come lime with us! More episodes coming in July!!🌸 by @pherneducationstudios
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8 months ago
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It’s reintroduction time!!🎉 I’ve been over in the LinkedIn streets these days but I wanted to jump back over here to these IG streets to reintroduce myself!! Hi 👋🏽! I’m Abbiola Ballah (she/her), Founder of Phern Education Studios LLC. What I Do 💜 I coach and consult on people leadership, supporting managers and organizations to navigate the dynamics and conversations that shape trust, collaboration, and culture. 💜 I help leaders move through tension and conflict with empathy and discernment so teams can thrive. 💜 I design workshops that equip teams to be proactive, not just reactive, when challenges surface. 💜 I partner with mission-driven organizations, nonprofit, for-profit, and foundations, to embed people-focused leadership into the way they work. Who I Am 🇹🇹 I’m a proud Trinbagonian!! Born & bred😉 👸🏽 I am a cisgender woman of color, of mixed ethnicity, walking the world in a larger body. ✈️ I’ve spent the majority of my adult life living and working internationally and I’m currently nomadic! 🗣️ I speak three languages at varying levels: English, Japanese, & Spanish 🎶📚 🎭 Music, books, and Broadway fill my soul! I would love to go deeper and get to know you as well! Feel free to send me a DM and let’s grab a virtual coffee together!! 📸: @ciagouldstudio, @viscerastudio . . . [Image Description: Abbiola laughing and sitting outdoors against a blurred background with long, purple braids and glasses. She’s wearing an orange off the shoulder top with pink strap showing and dark blue jeans.] by @pherneducationstudios
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2 years ago
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What happens when you have changed, but the people around you are still responding to who you were when they first met you? People may know us from one particular chapter without seeing the experiences, discoveries, and internal conversations that have shaped who we are becoming. In this episode of Lime, Listen & Learn: The People Leadership Lounge, Sara Chandran (@freshandfearless_uk) is back as my guest chatting about leading through identity shifts! We get into invisible identities, late discovery, disclosure, power, and what it asks of leaders, colleagues, friends, and family to remain curious and make room for people to evolve. This is Sara’s second time on the podcast, and as we say in Trinidad, if it’s nice, do it twice! 🤣 And we always have such a blast liming - recording or not!! 🎧 The full episode is out now! Listen on your favorite podcast platform here at the link in bio. Pull up a chair. Come lime with us! by @pherneducationstudios
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3 months ago
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What does mentorship miss when we treat everyone as though they are starting from the same place? A lot of advice sounds good in theory. Speak up. Ask for the raise. Put yourself forward. Find a sponsor. Take the opportunity. None of that exists outside of context. People are walking into workplaces, leadership spaces, and mentorship relationships carrying different identities, risks, access points, and past experiences. The same advice can land very differently depending on who is receiving it and what they are navigating. In this episode of Lime, Listen & Learn: The People Leadership Lounge, Tyler Skinner (@thetylerskinner)and I are talking about what mentorship can build, what it requires, and what gets missed when support comes with conditions attached. We get into mentorship, allyship, sponsorship, access, accountability, and why none of these things can work in isolation. 🎧 The full episode is out now on all your favorite podcast platforms. Links in bio. Pull up a chair. Come lime with us! by @pherneducationstudios
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3 months ago
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What happens when the story an organization tells publicly does not match what people are actually experiencing inside it? People notice the gap. They notice when the values on the website do not show up in how decisions are made, how conflict is handled, who gets supported, or which conversations keep getting avoided. In this new episode of Lime, Listen & Learn: The People Leadership Lounge, Ashlee Sang (@ashleesangconsulting) and I are talking about the thin line between culture and perception. We get into trust, values, internal culture, public messaging, and how quickly the two can become disconnected when the everyday experience does not match the story being told. The full episode goes much deeper into what it takes to close that gap and what leaders need to pay attention to before trust starts to erode. 🎧 The full episode is out now on your favorite podcast platforms. Links in bio. Pull up a chair. Come lime with us! by @pherneducationstudios
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3 months ago
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Sometimes workplace wellness feels like handing people a breathing exercise when what they really need is for someone to ask why they can’t breathe at work in the first place. In this new episode of Lime, Listen & Learn: The People Leadership Lounge, Gary L. Davis of @equanimity.work and I are deconstructing the wellness room. Not in a “wellness is bad” way. More in a: what are people being asked to cope with, what has become normal at work, and what would we have to look at if another initiative was not the answer? This clip is just a small piece of the conversation. Pull up a chair. Come lime with us! 🎧 The full episode is out now. Links in bio We’re back friends!!!!!🎉🎉 by @pherneducationstudios
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3 months ago
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Lime, Listen & Learn: The People Leadership Lounge Podcast is back tomorrow - July 1st!!🎙️✨ Same vibes. New conversations. So many gems were dropped in these limes, and I’m so excited for you to hear what we got into. Subscribe to be the first to know when new episodes drop: https://limelistenlearn.riverside.com Pull up a chair. Come lime with us. 💜 by @pherneducationstudios
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3 months ago
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Having an uncomfortable conversation isn’t just a clarity problem. Every conversation lands inside a person’s world, not just their ears. And that world is shaped by things you may not fully see. Swipe through for the four context layers worth understanding before your next one. If this resonates and you want to go deeper, my DMs are open. #PeopleLeadership #WorkplaceConversations #LeadershipDevelopment #HRLeadership #ManagerLife by @pherneducationstudios
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4 months ago
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This is 44. Today I’m celebrating another year around the sun. Not a milestone. Not a recap. Just a moment to pause. This year feels different. Quieter. Deeper. More grounded. It’s about integration. About holding all the parts of me that once felt separate. The parts that lead, the parts that learn, the parts that rest. Traveling solo again reminds me that expansion doesn’t always mean doing more. Sometimes it’s about being more of yourself, wherever you are. So here’s to the next chapter: 🌿 Rooted in who I am 🌎 Expanding into what’s next 💜 Moving through the world whole!! by @pherneducationstudios
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a year ago
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Hard conversations don’t go away just because we avoid them. In fact, the longer we wait, the heavier they get. 🟣 The tension builds in the room. 🟣 The silence becomes its own message. 🟣 Trust starts to slip through the cracks. For people leaders, these moments can feel impossible. Say the wrong thing and risk damaging trust. Say nothing and risk losing it anyway. The CLEARER Conversations™ Experience is designed to shift that pattern. It gives managers a space to practice the conversations they’ve been putting off. Instead of walking away unsure, they walk away with: 🟣 Language that makes hard conversations less overwhelming. 🟣 Tools to move from avoidance to connection. 🟣 Confidence to lead with care without losing direction. The next Experience is happening this October 9 & 16, and applications are open now. Get all the details here: https://www.pherneducationstudios.com/clearer-conversations-experience If you are ready to transform how you show up in these moments, this is your invitation to step in. And if you know others who this would be a good fit for, please feel free to share! by @pherneducationstudios
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a year ago
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Workplace culture is often built on unspoken assumptions. 👉 That you’re fine with Slack pings at 9pm. 👉 That you prefer public praise. 👉 That your silence means “no problem.” Consent and clarity should be the baseline—not just in friendships, but in leadership, collaboration, and feedback. ⚠️ If we want human-centered workspaces, we have to ask better questions, like: How do you like to communicate? How do you want feedback? What kind of support feels good when you’re under pressure? How do you want to be held in space—and how do you hold space for others? This is people-led management in practice. No fluff. Just humanity. Check out more on this in my conversation with Abbiola @pherneducationstudios in the most recent episode of the podcast! ID: slide 1: a graphic with a black and white photo of an office space, the gold steffgallante logo a gray transparent square with white font ““How do you want to be held in space at work?” And how do you hold space for others? That’s a leadership question. That’s a justice question. It’s also a consent question. It shouldn’t be left up to assumption.” slide 2: a graphic with a purple to white gradient background, purple text: Humaning: the shit we need to talk about, Episode 69: Brave space > safe space: what human-powered teams need, with guest Abbiola Ballah, and photos of Steff and Abbiola. a graphic with a black and white photo of an office space, a gray transparent square with white font and the gold steffgallante logo by @pherneducationstudios
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