Angelina Darrisaw's Bio

WHO IS ANGELINA?

community builder | INNOVATIVE CEO | Advocate for the arts | lifestyle architect

ANGELINA'S Manifesto: Strategy, Scale, and Social Capital

Angelina Darrisaw is an award-winning CEO and strategist whose decade leading her firm has served as an unparalleled laboratory for generating and validating transformational leadership frameworks—the very systems she deploys for the world’s most successful organizations. She approaches every challenge, from corporate strategy to AI transformations, with the core values of curiosity and coachability, ensuring continuous growth and outsized results.

Leadership Development That Really Moves the Needle

Her proven success is rooted in her role as the founder and CEO of C-Suite Coach, a firm that specializes in accelerating human capital for global enterprise clients. With deep expertise in executive coaching, advanced leadership development frameworks, and artificial intelligence (AI) strategy, C-Suite Coach has driven over $20 Million in sales and funneled $13 Million into job and contract opportunities for over 140 people across more than 12 U.S. states and through a globally operational team.

The firm's tangible business wins include:

Human Capital Acceleration:

Successfully training over 350,000 small businesses and providing high-intensity development to tens of thousands of employees every year at companies like Sephora, Google, and Warner Music Group.

Executive Coaching & Leadership:

Coaching senior C-Suite leaders to navigate strategic transitions and accelerate growth, built on thousands of hours of intense facilitation and program execution.

Talent Strategy & Retention:

Designing and deploying high-impact onboarding programs that have demonstrably transformed the retention and progression trajectory for new hires.

Angelina's trajectory is a testament to the power of pure strategy: She converted zero generational wealth into this multi-million-dollar enterprise through the success of her business. Angelina has perfected the framework for generating her own financial, intellectual, and social capital. She consults with high-impact leaders and institutions, teaching them how to employ this framework to convert market uncertainty into outsized ROI and strategic career mobility.

Outside of C-Suite Coach, Angelina offers limited services as a Lifestyle Architect. She believes in a full, multifaceted life and intentionally designed her personal success to include long-term engagement in the Arts and high fashion, having served as a patron of Alvin Ailey’s Young Patrons for over 13 years and drawing on her background in modeling and pageantry.

She leverages this same strategic blueprint to help clients transform their personal brands into invitations, ensuring they design the abundant life they want.

Darrisaw has been a frequent contributor to CNBC and her work and expertise have been featured in The New York Times and Fast Company. Her business leadership has earned her spots on the Forbes Next 1000 and Black Enterprise 40 Under 40 lists. She is an investor and Limited Partner at CapitalizeVC.

Her civic experience includes the Executive Committee of the MoMA Black Arts Council, over a decade of leadership with Alvin Ailey, and past board service for Davidson College and Youth Communication. Darrisaw holds an MS in Management from Wake Forest University and a BA from Davidson College. She formerly served as an Adjunct Professor at NYU and held professional roles at ESPN and Viacom.