Your Path to Culturally Intelligent Leadership Starts Here
Through the RISE Framework, we help women overcome cultural barriers, unlock potential, and lead with confidence.
34%
“Companies with women in executive positions report 34% higher innovation revenue than companies without.”
Boston Consulting Group, The Most Innovative Companies 2020
47%
“Employees with high cultural intelligence are 47% more effective in cross-border teamwork and collaboration.”
Harvard Business Review, Cultural Intelligence and Global Teams (2021)
28%
“Only 28% of senior management positions globally are held by women, highlighting the need for targeted leadership development.”
Grant Thornton, Women in Business Report (2023)
RISE Framework
R – RECOGNIZE
🔍 Understand the cultural norms shaping your environment and your mindset.
What values shaped your view of leadership, confidence, or success?
What invisible rules are influencing how you’re seen and heard?
I – INTERPRET
🧭 Learn to decode behaviors, feedback, and workplace dynamics through a cultural lens.
Is silence respect or resistance?
Is direct feedback empowering or offensive?
What are the unspoken norms for leadership visibility?
S – STRATEGIZE
🛠️ Use culturally smart tools to navigate, communicate, and lead.
Choose when to be bold, when to listen, when to align.
Build visibility and credibility without compromising your values.
Turn difference into strength.
E – ELEVATE
🚀 Lead with cultural confidence. Expand your impact while staying authentically you.
Build a personal brand rooted in your heritage and goals
Mentor across cultures
Be the change agent your workplace needs
About RISE With Betty
At RISE With Betty, we believe that every woman deserves the tools to thrive, no matter her industry.
Our signature model, the RISE Framework —Recognize, Interpret, Strategize, Elevate — equips women with practical strategies for navigating cross-cultural challenges and excelling as leaders.
Whether you are in business, healthcare, education, finance or technology, we provide resources, stories, and insights to help you grow in your career with cultural intelligence at the core.
“Cultural misreads are often career detours in disguise.”
Dr. Betty Eziakor (Ph.D)
RISE with Betty
At RISE With Betty, we believe every woman deserves the tools to thrive, no matter her industry. Our signature model, the RISE Framework, equips women with practical strategies for navigating cross-cultural challenges and excelling as leaders.