Dear Mixed Girl

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Leadership Development, Organizational Culture & Human Development

Dear Mixed Girl® provides research-informed consulting, professional learning, training, facilitation, coaching, and keynote speaking designed to strengthen leadership, communication, cultural proficiency, emotional intelligence, identity development, and organizational practice.

Founded and led by Dr. KayLa N. Allen-Young, Dear Mixed Girl® works with organizations, leaders, professionals, families, and individuals when meaningful growth requires more than general awareness. Engagements are developed around the people involved, the responsibilities they hold, the conditions affecting them, and the outcomes that need to become stronger.

Organizational & Professional Services

Dear Mixed Girl® supports organizations navigating leadership development, workplace culture, communication, professional learning, and organizational response following conflict, complaints, investigations, corrective-action requirements, settlement-related obligations, or other documented concerns.

Consulting, training, facilitation, and executive or professional development are customized to the organizational context rather than delivered as one standard program. The focus is on strengthening leadership accountability, cultural proficiency, communication, decision-making, workplace expectations, and the practical behaviors that influence how people experience an organization.

Identity & Family Development

Dear Mixed Girl® also maintains its distinct commitment to mixed and biracial girls ages 12–18 and the people raising them.

Identity-development coaching helps girls strengthen self-awareness, emotional intelligence, confidence, and the language needed to understand and express the fullness of who they are. Parenting leadership support equips families with culturally informed guidance for understanding identity experiences they may not personally share and supporting their daughters with greater awareness, communication, and intention.

Keynotes, Learning & Facilitation

Dr. KayLa delivers customized keynote presentations, workshops, facilitated learning, and professional-development experiences that connect human development with the realities of leadership, culture, identity, communication, emotional intelligence, and organizational responsibility.

Her work is designed for conferences, corporations, healthcare organizations, educational institutions, nonprofits, professional associations, government-related audiences, leadership groups, and other organizations seeking learning that is thoughtful, practical, and relevant to the people in the room.

Client Experience

“Dr. KayLa provided our attendees with valuable information that is difficult to find through other training avenues. Her presentation on Cultural Proficiency in Action delivered insightful information in an easily digestible manner. She uses her lived experience, palpable examples, and evidence based approaches that give parents, caregivers, and professionals tools to foster inclusive and understanding environments for children to thrive. Our team and community are better for having attended this speaking series presented by Dr. KayLa.”
Kaitlyn H .
HR and Conference Coordinator, Wisconsin Family Ties & Children Come First Conference

Engagement Inquiries

Dear Mixed Girl® works with clients seeking more intentional leadership, stronger organizational practice, meaningful professional learning, specialized identity-development support, or an engaging keynote experience grounded in research and practical application.

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Dr. KayLa N. Allen-Young

Identity Development & Cultural Proficiency Expert | Keynote Speaker | Founder of Dear Mixed Girl®

Dr. KayLa brings more than 15 years of experience across executive leadership, organizational development, healthcare administration, human resources support, professional learning, public health, coaching, and national facilitation. Her work combines research-informed practice, organizational insight, and lived understanding to help people and organizations strengthen leadership, communication, cultural proficiency, identity development, and the environments in which people work, learn, lead, and grow.

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