About

Dr. LaTosha Pinckney

Scholar-practitioner and personal development strategist · Writer, speaker, and workshop facilitator
Founder, The Richardson-Pinckney Group · Creator of Daring Woman

I help people understand how their experiences have shaped what they believe about themselves and how those beliefs may still be influencing their lives. Through teaching, reflection, workshops, and writing, I help them examine those patterns and consider what it would mean to respond differently. Through The Richardson-Pinckney Group, I do related work with organizations.

This work is personal to me. When my oldest son left for college, I began asking questions about who I was beyond a role that had been central to my life. Motherhood was still part of who I was, but the way I lived it was changing. That experience helped me recognize how much of our understanding of ourselves can become tied to what we do, what others need from us, and the responsibilities we carry.

Those questions have continued through other seasons of my life. I've questioned myself, examined beliefs I had accepted for years, and recognized patterns that did not change simply because I could explain them. My study has given me additional ways to understand these experiences and develop teaching that others can apply to their own lives.

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My Approach

I begin with identity

Purpose matters, but who we are cannot be reduced to a particular role, responsibility, or expression of our purpose. Those expressions can change throughout our lives.

Part of understanding ourselves is learning to distinguish who we are from ways of being that developed in response to what life required. Being the dependable one, avoiding disagreement, or always appearing strong may have helped us maintain connection or navigate a difficult season. We can appreciate why those responses developed while also examining whether they still serve us.

The questions I return to are:

These questions give us a way to examine our lives with both honesty and compassion. We are not trying to dismiss what happened or criticize the person we were. We are learning to understand what influenced us and where we may now have room to choose differently.

Faith

Faith and the complexity of being human

My Christian faith is central to this work. It informs how I understand our value, our identity, and our capacity to grow. It also gives us a place to bring the questions and disappointments that do not resolve easily.

I believe we can be faithful and still struggle. We can have made progress and still be affected by something we experienced. Acknowledging that complexity helps us approach ourselves more honestly and recognize when we need prayer, support, time, or a different response.

From understanding to practice

Awareness gives us a place to begin. As we recognize a belief or pattern, we can examine it in relation to truth, our faith, and the life we want to live. Then we can identify a practical choice and begin making it, sometimes more than once as an old pattern returns.

The aim is to develop an understanding of yourself that can guide how you live, lead, and relate while leaving room for continued growth.

How I Work

The same question, at a different scale

I am interested in why something works the way it does. That has been true of me for as long as I can remember, and it applies as much to a process as to a person.

The sequence is usually the same. Understand what is actually happening, which is often not what was first described. Consider what could be different. Develop a structure or an approach that addresses it. Then help the people involved carry that work forward, because something that depends on me to function has not really been built.

With an individual, that might mean examining a belief formed decades ago and identifying one choice to practice differently. With an organization, it might mean rebuilding a training program, writing the procedures that let a team work consistently, or developing the leadership materials a newly promoted manager needed six months ago. The scale differs. The thinking does not.

I founded The Richardson-Pinckney Group as the organization through which that work is developed and delivered. Daring Woman is one expression of it, created specifically for women exploring identity, beliefs, faith, and becoming.

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Education & Experience

Study, and the work it has informed

I earned my Ph.D. in Psychological & Counseling Studies from Regent University. My dissertation, Building Resilience: Facilitator Training Program for Overcoming Limiting Beliefs, focused on developing training to help facilitators understand and work with limiting beliefs in personal development settings. It was, in a sense, the first version of the work I do now: taking an idea about how people change and building something another person could pick up and use.

That academic work informs the frameworks and teaching I develop. My focus is on making these ideas understandable and helping people consider how they apply to their own lives.

Alongside that study, my professional experience has been in building things organizations use. That has included developing programs and the structures that support them, creating training and learning resources, writing leadership development materials, designing HR and workplace processes, and producing manuals, procedures, and practical tools that help people understand what needs to happen and carry the work forward.

My work and writing explore identity, beliefs, purpose, perspective, becoming, emotional intelligence, personal development, and the ways people make sense of their lives and experiences. Faith is an important part of my voice and worldview, particularly in the writing and teaching about identity, purpose, change, meaning, and becoming.

Writing

Books and ideas

My book Still Becoming is available on Amazon. Shorter writing, reflections, articles, and teaching videos are collected on the Writing & Resources page, which is where the ideas behind the workshops and teaching are developed at greater length.

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