Khalilah Shakir Lyons, CEO & Founder

About

Khalilah Lyons is a founder, visionary, storyteller, movement maker, speaker and writer based in Chicagoland. As founder of Answer the Moment, Khalilah brings an energetic, heart-centered approach to her work for all companies that are ready for change, in the midst of change, or on the other side of change. Her approach is centered on empowering people to be brave enough to untap their brilliance in service of taking transformative action. She makes space for people to fully show up as they are in order to determine how they can best contribute to creating inclusive culture in their organizations.  As a result, her thought leadership and coaching is highly sought after and you can find her joyfully connecting as a keynote speaker, board member, coach, mentor and as many have said ‘Corporate Soul Whisperer.”.  Her clients include General Mills, Grant Thornton, YMCA Chicago, Health of Ontario Pension Plan, Ulteig, Highspot, TXI Digital and others. Khalilah is the co-founder of Candidly Connecting, which is on a mission to ignite bold, candid, and essential conversations  between children, parents, and educators that will have generational impact. Her work has been featured in Chicago Defender and she was named Mogul's Top 100 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Leaders in 2021.  She has appeared on many platforms including Empathy Edge, Uplevyl, She Rocks It magazine and most recently on Chicago Access Network TV, which reaches a million viewers in Chicago. She sits on the board of directors for International Women's Forum -Chicago and  Female Strong; and is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. She completed her undergraduate and graduate degree at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  Her work continues to be visionary messages to the potential, possibility and purpose in others.