Who We Are
The School of Disruptive Etiquette (SDE) provides customized career development courses and coaching for diverse young professionals.
We teach rising leaders how to increase their confidence and accelerate their career through soft skills, executive presence, authentic confidence, and organic relationships.
Etiquette and Professionalism
Executive Presence and Confidence
Networking and Relationship Building
Navigating Workplace Cultures
Personal Branding
Image, Attire, and Grooming
Public Speaking and Presentation Skills
Interview Preparation and Mock Interviews
Communication
Build Your Dream Network
Confidence and Self-Advocacy for Young Professionals of Color
Own Your Achievements
Impostor syndrome, speaking up for yourself, doubting your capabilities - say less. We’ll give you the master key to confidence, and show you how to brag without being cringey, share your accomplishments with pride, and advocate for yourself without hesitating.
Own Your Relationships
The way to propel your career is by building relationships. We’ll show you which relationships to build, how to grow them organically, and how to apply these things right where you are right now.
Own Your Energy
Tired of people telling you to “come out of your shell?” Join this course to learn and practice how to network effectively in an environment that suits your energy and honors your social preferences.
Networking for Introverts
Career Mapping
and Strategy
Resume and LinkedIn Makeover
Own Your Next Move
Join other ambitious young professionals in a small group course to map out your career, and receive actionable strategy steps to get your career on track for success.
Own Your Digital Brand
Take this course to get personal, customized instruction on how to design, align, and shine these critical pieces for interviews, networking, and your entire career.
Own Your Audience
Move from nervousness and anxiety to being an inspiring, influencing, engaging, and persuading speaker. Get real practice in a controlled environment.
Practice and Polish Your Public Speaking
We provide a protected place where diverse young adults can learn how to succeed in their career without being shamed for not knowing - our students can express themselves and be vulnerable with no filter, no blanketed answers, no awkwardness, no embarrassment.
A Career Development School Unlike Any Other
I received 3 competing job offers in one week. Tomorrow, I will accept a consulting role that will provide me with a 50% total salary increase. I believe the work with Toni’s program and in other endeavors will change lives. I know it did for me!
Coaching and support helped me to land a better job, and negotiate a 73% salary increase.
I gained more confidence in my personal elevator pitch, tools/strategy to navigate the workforce/salary negotiations, and a better understanding of online branding.
Etiquette that Empowers
Disruptive Etiquette is a 21st century etiquette movement that seeks to reintroduce etiquette in a way that is fun and fresh, relevant and radical, and approachable and applicable for Millennials, Gen Z, and the young at heart.
1. A young professional who has an allergic reaction to what is average; vehemently refuses to accept the status quo, and does not settle for mediocrity.
2. A person who is ill-fitted, different; challenges conventional thinking and does not conform; likes to color outside the lines and think outside the box.
noun
mis·fit | \ ˈmis-ˌfit alsoˌ mis-ˈfit \\
The Career Confidence Incub8tor provides you the tools, coaching, and support to increase your confidence, so you can get the promotion, job position, or pay raise you want, and land the leadership roles you deserve.
Career Confidence Incub8tor
Through scheduled coaching sessions and the exercises and readings, I found myself becoming more and more confident.. . . I secure(d) a Corporate Finance role in a Fortune 50 firm in New York City, in addition to gaining admission into one of the most prestigious international affairs master’s programs in the country.
I have increased confidence and self-worth. The self advocacy I have demonstrated this past year has been acknowledged as maturity and leadership by peers and managers. I am regularly exceeding expectations in my performance reviews . . .