Education & Doctoral Degree
Her education is from Delaware State University and Wilmington University, where she earned her Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), focusing her lifelong research on leadership dynamics, empathy, and organizational change.
Meet The Founder & Principal Consultant
Dr. Monica Curry, Ed.D.
A leading expert at creating fast and lasting behavioral change in accomplished but overwhelmed professionals, enabling them to expand their leadership impact and become change agents who mobilize their organizations towards the future.
With her proven leadership frameworks, clients learn to harness intentional and servant leadership, construct inspiring team cultures under stressful conditions, and leverage their influencing capacities to achieve outsized business results.
The Gentle Disrupter
Courageous conversations that guide positive behavioral evolution
Executive Biography
Creating Positive Evolution Through Intentional Leadership
Dr. Curry (or Dr. Monica as some of her clients affectionately call her) became an organizational effectiveness coach because she wanted to create positive evolution. As the founder of Impacting Squared, she is a dedicated coach specializing in helping organizations navigate change and ambiguity.
By focusing on learning and development, she is committed to fostering workplaces where every individual is respected, supported, and encouraged to contribute to their fullest potential. Her brand is built on resilience, empathy, and an uncompromising commitment to empowering individuals and transforming organizational dynamics.
The "Gentle Disrupter" Touch
She is a gentle disrupter and can help change happen through tough conversations in a way that positively influences behavior change. Her lifelong research in the academic space was driven by her personal experiences in and with leadership.
Dr. Curry understands that authentic leadership begins within. When leaders cultivate internal psychological safety, they are better equipped to champion diverse teams, lean into constructive friction, and make values-driven decisions that generate lasting business return on investment.
Leadership Methodology
Strategic Storytelling: Capturing Heart, Mind, & Emotions
Today’s leaders across industries are faced with identifying avenues through which they can provide clarity and a better understanding of how everyone’s work aligns with the organization’s cultural goals.
One essential way is through strategic storytelling. This conversational approach allows the leader to capture the heart, mind, and emotions of the individuals on their teams.
For leaders, this technique requires a new mindset, which includes the ability AND willingness to be authentic and vulnerable to create a narrative about hope, failures, recovery, possibility, and resiliency. Effective and intentional storytelling can be transformative in personal and professional spaces. She’s leveraged these learnings into coaching leaders.
Academic & Governance Appointments
Scholarship, Governance, & Accreditations
Rooted in rigorous academic research and practical executive board governance.
Adjunct Professor, Wilmington University
Current Adjunct Professor at Wilmington University, instructing upcoming and practicing executives on Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation.
Board Governance Roles
Serves as a Board Member on the College of Business at Delaware State University and on the Board of Las Americas ASPIRA Academy in Delaware, championing educational equity and community development.
Certified Executive Coach
Certified in Stakeholder Centered Coaching, a premier science-based framework recognized globally for driving measurable, behavioral leadership results evaluated by key stakeholders.
Personal Reflections
My Reason Why… What’s Yours?
She currently resides in Delaware. She has a travel bug (both domestic and international), spends a lot of time in a dojo watching her 8-year-old grandson Kobe Drew break boards, is always the first one on the dance floor, and is a never-ending learner about different cultures and human behaviors.
In her reflective piece, "My Reason Why…What’s Yours?", Dr. Curry shares holding hands with her grandson Kobe Drew while watching television. Kobe represents her fundamental "Why"—the imperative to cultivate an inclusive world where young people of color can enter any room, be seen unapologetically, have their authenticity embraced without judgment, and experience belonging as a fundamental standard rather than a survival tactic.
This personal conviction fuels every workshop, coaching engagement, and keynote presentation she delivers.
