For women building lives
that hold their full brilliance.
Coaching and consulting rooted in prophetic listening — a practice refined across four decades of social work, ministry, and teaching.
Black women do not lack vision or expertise. Too often they lack the room, the resources, and the strategic accompaniment to convert what they already carry into something sustainable.
DreamBIG exists to be that accompaniment. The work is practical — income, structure, content, credibility — and it is theological at the same time, because a woman's vocation is not a side project.
Ways to work together.
Each engagement begins with where you actually are — not a package designed for someone else.
Initial consulting session
DreamSESSION
A first session built to listen, understand, and strategize. Dr. Irie begins where you are, mapping the path between the idea you carry and the life you intend to build from it.
Book a DreamSESSIONThree-month engagement
One-on-One Coaching
Personalized coaching that works from your particular strengths and particular obstacles. The aim is to identify and remove what blocks your flourishing in the field you have chosen.
Explore coachingStrategic accompaniment
Vocational Shifts & Disruptions
For women navigating career transitions, institutional upheaval, or a calling that has changed shape. Strategy for adapting without abandoning your voice.
Teaching products
Courses & Content Creation
Help shaping educational content, curricula, and courses that carry your voice — including logos, flyers, and social graphics that hold your brand together.
Seminaries & divinity schools
Adjunct Teaching
Teaching in religious education and womanist practice for seminaries, divinity schools, and continuing education programs.
Cohort learning
Virtual Courses & Training
Online courses and training sessions designed to equip participants with knowledge they can use in their professional and personal lives.
Prophetic Listening
The practice at the center of the coaching ministry.
Prophetic listening is the transformative practice Dr. Irie employs in her coaching ministry — a skill honed over four decades of service as a social worker. It is rooted in attentive, empathetic listening paired with a deep understanding of human experience and the complexities of societal structures.
This practice moves beyond the bounds of ordinary active listening. It involves intuiting the unspoken and underlying messages in a client's narrative, discerning truths that are not immediately apparent. Drawing on theology and social work together, the guidance offered is both spiritually grounded and pragmatically sound.
Prophetic listening is not only about understanding the present. It is about envisioning and shaping a better future: helping clients recognize and disrupt the patterns that have held them back, reimagine their circumstances, and build strategies that align with their values.
The 3E Strategy for Success
Dr. Irie's coaching framework.
The three movements
Unearth what limits. Harness what is singular. Actualize what has been waiting.
The 3E Strategy for Success guides clients through three movements: unearthing and dispelling limiting beliefs, harnessing their unique brilliance, and actualizing their aspirations.
It is a framework built for people who already carry expertise and experience. The work is not to invent a new self, but to convert what is already within reach into something that can be lived, built, and shared.
Why women choose DreamBIG
Expert guidance
A blended perspective drawn from ministry, social work, and entrepreneurship.
Tailored strategy
Work shaped to your specific needs rather than a curriculum applied to everyone.
Commitment to flourishing
Professional success is not the whole measure. The work is for holistic flourishing.
Community impact
Empowering one woman creates a ripple through families, congregations, and society.
A proven framework
The 3E Strategy for Success, Dr. Irie's coaching framework for moving from latent possibility to actualized aspiration.
What clients say about the work.
“Let's just be honest. Dr. Irie is the best. I have engaged her services to help me create an e-book, a logo and Facebook banner for my group and attended her webinar, “5 Rs of Creating Online Courses.” I have not been disappointed one time. Her passion and compassion wrapped in patience are beyond measure. Coach Irie adds value to my life, my business and my spirit.”
Rev. Sherri Brown Jackson
The Preachers Coach
“The word that comes to mind is “implementation.” Dr. Irie's coaching helps you navigate through the maze of “ifs” and gets you to the place of done, created, implemented and established. She provokes you to get it off the shelf, out of your head and into the marketplace so that the people who have been waiting for it can access it.”
Rev. Dr. Billie Boyd-Cox
The Pain Navigator
“I tune into Dr. Session's Bible lessons, because of her deep understanding of their meaning for real life experience and healing.”
Dr. Karen Baker-Fletcher
Professor of Systematic Theology, Perkins School of Theology, SMU
“Dr. Irie asked insightful, probing questions to help me clarify my goals. From our conversation, she developed an action plan with me detailing next steps that I am using to move forward with my Big Dream. Her wisdom and experience are invaluable.”
Rev. V. Ruth Schulenberg
Chaplaincy Supervisor
Ready to begin? Two sessions are available to book directly.
Tell Dr. Irie what you intend to build.
When Black women flourish, the whole world benefits. The first conversation is where that possibility gets named.