Speaker – Cheryl Scales Consulting Services – Activating Your Next Chapter!

The Platform

What Believe Enough to Ask™ means.

Believe Enough to Ask™ is an inspiring, multigenerational community decision that Cheryl embraces for the transformational and meaningful ways she engages constituents, strengthens community connections, and opens new conversations about opportunity. At her core, this is the “what” and “how” she unleashes on the stage and in every program — it’s the house, and every room below lives inside it.

“I don’t deliver plans, I deliver momentum — connecting dots others miss and turning them into action that outlives me.”

Where the Brand Was Born

The Tip Jar.

Before she could read a book, Cheryl climbed onto a crate in her Aunt Mattie’s café in Memphis to find a customer’s requested song on the jukebox. They asked, and she delivered — again and again. They tipped her for it.

“I influence the tip.”

That mindset — show up, deliver, earn the room — never left. It’s the same instinct that, many years later, put her at dinner with Denzel Washington. A masterclass in brilliance, built one request at a time. It’s the origin of everything, and the reason every keynote she gives opens the same way: find out what the room needs, and have the nerve to give it to them.

The Secret Weapon

The Shoe Closet.

Cheryl loves shoes. Always has. When the world demanded she walk certain avenues, her shoes became the point of distinction — the thing that boosted her confidence with no apology. She’s been influencing the room since the jukebox at Aunt Mattie’s; these days, the tell is on her feet. She helps you find your pair, define it, and live it in a way that’s true to you.Five deliberate ways of walking in.

The Closer

Comes out when the deal is on the table. Sharp toe, sharper follow-through.

The Boardroom Boot

For rooms that need to be told something they don’t want to hear.

The Stage Stiletto

Keynote-ready. Loud enough to hear from the back row before I’ve said a word.

The Thinking Partner

Low, steady, built for the long strategy sessions no one else wants to sit through.

The Sassy One

No occasion required. Some days the shoe just says it before I do.

What She Does

She makes sure no one gets left behind in the room.

Cheryl Scales is an innovation strategist, Princeton graduate, and Fortune 50 leader who spent three decades turning ideas into growth inside America’s biggest companies — including P&G and Delta Air Lines. Now she takes the stage.

She’s also the founder of Cheryl Scales Innovation Group, the consulting practice that took everything she learned inside the Fortune 50 and put it to work for founders, executives, and organizations building what’s next.

Cheryl is also a dynamic breast cancer survivor — and she believes an even greater part of her legacy is unlocking the gifts in others, on stage and in every program she builds.

Her gift is connection: she makes AI feel human, bridges five generations in one room, and gives audiences the courage to ask for what’s next. She doesn’t speak about success as a theory — she speaks from a life that lived it.

Why Book Cheryl

“When a booker asks what she’s about, the answer is Connect, Not Discard. When they ask what to book, the answer is Believe Enough to Ask.”

One category she owns. One flagship keynote. One unmistakable voice.

Rooms of Impact

You’re invited to Cheryl’s House.

Every room is built on the Believe Enough to Ask™ platform and tailored to your audience.

The Signature Room

Believe Enough to Ask

The flagship. From the tip jar to the Fortune 50 boardroom — the courage to ask for what’s next, and the wisdom to bring every generation with you.

The AI Room

The AI Confidence Advantage

Turning curiosity into productivity. A practical, people-first path through the AI transition for audiences who feel more anxious than ready.

The Leadership Room

The Courage to Create Opportunity

Recognize possibility, overcome hesitation, take meaningful action — for communities and leaders ready to move from talk to progress.

The Voice Room

Making Your Voice Count

A civic engagement masterclass, delivered in 60 minutes: Remember — honor our history, learn the lessons. Get Ready — prepare to vote with confidence. Reach Others — lift up our families. Every audience leaves informed, prepared, and inspired to participate.

The Community Room

Strong Black Women Community

A membership community with weekly Connected Conversations — strategies of success, tactics to remove roadblocks, and space to exhale. Plus Duplicating Social Justice Success, a 60-minute session equipping frontline leaders with the strategies and support to keep the work moving.

The Thinking Partner Room

Mentoring Moments & Personal Development Coaching

30 minutes to polish your elevator pitch and sharpen how you talk about yourself or your business. Or go deeper with an hour of personal development coaching — branding strategy, breakthrough conversations, hard questions included. Wednesdays for entrepreneurs, Thursdays for executives and nonprofit leaders.

The Money Room

Business Strategy & the Magnificent Mastery VIP Day

A revenue-generation power hour that builds a real formula for business progress. Or go all in with the Magnificent Mastery VIP Day — four hours covering your state-of-the-year plan, the Art of Authenticity, an Authentic Positioning workbook, and the Art of the Rolodex.

The Legacy Room

Invest in YOU First

Cheryl built real wealth, watched much of it disappear in the 2008 crash, and rebuilt with what mattered most still standing. Invest in YOU First is the program that came out of it — start small, start now, no shame in starting over — closing the wealth information gap one generation at a time. The youth version carries its own name: How Did You Do That?

The Proof

Credibility you can see.

Bookers hire memorable stories backed by real receipts. Cheryl brings both.

20+

Years leading growth in Fortune 50 companies

20th Year

Cheryl Scales Innovation Group — entrepreneurial anniversary, award-winning impact

Generations she bridges in a single room

P&G · Delta

Global brands built and launched

Princeton

Graduate · Harvard executive education

Atlanta Black Chambers
Princeton ABPA
Good Morning America
Obama White House Recognition

In the Room

Moments that matter.

Cheryl Scales leading a panel at Princeton University

Princeton University’s Thrive Innovation Series

Cheryl brought design thinking to Princeton’s Innovation Series, taking centerstage for almost 300 participants and introducing them to design thinking in their entrepreneurial lanes and their Corporate America careers. Her training was rated 5 stars — one of the highest-impact sessions of the conference.

“Cheryl’s presentation was incredibly insightful and engaging… Many of the people in that workshop had graduated more than 20+ years ago, and we were all invigorated by her insights.”

Good Morning America

Featured on ABC’s Good Morning America as part of the “Take Control of Your Life” tour, spotlighting Atlanta entrepreneurs building life on their own terms.

Full Circle with Michelle Obama

Princeton friends since day one — reconnecting decades later at Michelle Obama’s Becoming book tour.

Recognize what’s next.
Believe enough to ask for it.

What Believe Enough to Ask™ means.

Five words. One Cheryl.

The Tip Jar.