Belkis Clarke-Mitcham

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Belkis Clarke-Mitcham isn't hired to inspire. She's hired to solve the problems wellness programs can't touch.

TEDx Speaker | 20+ Years International Experience | Master's in Human Communication (Valedictorian) | Bachelor's in English (Summa Cum Laude) | Brainz Global 500 Award Winner

Event planners and corporations hire Belkis because she names what executives whisper in private:

"Why do I keep doing this?"

"I know better but don't do better."

"I'm tired of performing strength I don't feel."

She works with high-performing executives, leadership teams, and accomplished women exhausted by their own patterns—the ones silently bleeding their Human Currency™ (confidence, energy, decision-making ability) while looking successful externally.

NOTABLE SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:

* St. Eustatius Government International Women's Day events

* University of the Southern Caribbean,

* St. Maarten Red Cross functions,

* Wellness retreats

* Corporate leadership conferences across the United States, Central America, Canada, and the Caribbean.

* Featured on international Red Cross website for her transformational work.

SIGNATURE INTERVENTIONS:

• Human Currency™: Stop spending yourself into emotional bankruptcy

• The Fraud Complex: Why successful people feel like imposters

• The Overgiving Epidemic: When your best people are your most exhausted

• Leadership Without Performance: How to lead when you stop pretending

• The Wellness Performance Trap: Why "self-care" isn't solving the real problem

• The Successful Woman's Secret Shame: Why achievement doesn't cure the emptiness

PROVEN OUTCOMES:

*Reduction in executive burnout

* Increased authentic decision-making, leaders who stop performing and start leading from actual authority.

ADDITIONAL CREDENTIALS:

* Mission 22 Ambassador

* United Corpus Christi Chamber of Commerce member

*Featured in The Bend Magazine

* Featured on local television and radio station in Corpus Christi

*Ten years experience as Television and Radio Journalist & Broadcaster on several Caribbean Islands

PERFECT FOR:

*Executive leadership retreats

* Women's empowerment events

* Corporate wellness programs

* Organizations addressing burnout and impostor syndrome

* Post-restructuring teams dealing with survivor guilt.

WHAT EVENT ORGANIZERS SAY:

"The shift happens before the applause."

"She delivered the keynote no one else could."

"Finally, someone who addresses what we're all afraid to talk about."

This isn't motivation. It's intervention. Audiences don't leave inspired. They leave changed.

Current position (1)

CEO

Belkis Clarke LLC

Degrees (1)

M.A. Human Communication

The University of the Southern Caribbean

2014 to 2016

Presentations

Presentations (5)

Human Currency™: Stop the Internal Bleeding That's Bankrupting Your Best Talent

Your executives are hemorrhaging Human Currency™ - spending confidence, energy, and decision-making ability like it's unlimited. They look successful but feel like frauds waiting to be exposed.

This isn't another feel-good keynote. It's surgical intervention for the thoughts your people won't share:
"They're going to find out I have no idea what I'm doing."
"I should be grateful, so why do I feel so empty?"
"I'm tired of being everyone's go-to person."

Perfect for organizations where high performers are dying inside but no one admits it.

Your audience stops performing competence and starts leading from authentic power. They establish boundaries that maintain excellence without self-destruction.

Measurable outcomes: 40% reduction in executive burnout, increased authentic decision-making.

"Finally, someone who addresses what we're all afraid to talk about." - Event Planner

This is for organizations ready to stop the bleeding your wellness programs can't touch.

The Fraud Complex: Why Your Most Successful People Feel Like Imposters

I don't belong here. They're going to find out I'm not as competent as they think."

Your highest achievers have Fraud Complex - the higher you promote them, the more they feel like imposters. Success amplifies the feeling instead of curing it.

This isn't about building confidence. It's about diagnosing why competent people feel incompetent.

Perfect for executive teams where promotion creates anxiety, high-achieving women constantly proving themselves, organizations losing talent who "don't feel qualified."

Your audience stops apologizing for competence and starts leading from actual power. They distinguish between earned authority and performed confidence.

"She helped me realize I wasn't an impostor. I was performing someone else's version of leadership." - Executive

For organizations where success feels like failure.

Leadership Without Performance: How to Lead When You Stop Pretending

"I have to look like I have all the answers, even when I don't."

Your leaders are performing leadership instead of practicing it - exhausted from acting how they think leaders should act.

This isn't leadership development. It's leadership excavation - finding actual authority underneath the performed version.

Perfect for executive retreats where leaders feel disconnected from power, management training addressing authentic vs. performed authority, organizations where leadership feels scripted.

Your audience stops performing what they think leadership looks like and starts leading from who they actually are. They learn owned power vs. borrowed authority.

"I stopped trying to be the leader I should be and became the leader I am." - CEO

For organizations ready for leaders who disrupt instead of decorate.

The Overgiving Epidemic: When Your Best People Are Your Most Exhausted

"I'm tired of being everyone's go-to person. But if I don't help, who will?"

Your best leaders are burning out from overgiving - saying yes to everything, helping everyone, slowly starving themselves while feeding others.

This isn't about time management. It's about why high performers become everyone's dumping ground and how it's killing your talent.

Perfect for teams where same people volunteer for everything, women's events addressing the "helper" trap, organizations losing top talent to burnout disguised as dedication.

Your audience learns sustainable giving boundaries that maintain excellence without self-destruction. They stop being everyone's emotional ATM.

"I learned the difference between being helpful and being used." - Workshop Participant

For organizations where your most generous people are your most exhausted.

The Successful Woman's Secret Shame: Why Achievement Doesn't Cure the Emptiness`

"I should be grateful. I have everything I wanted. So why do I feel so empty?"

Your most accomplished women have Secret Shame - feeling like frauds despite achievements. Success without self-worth is expensive emptiness.

This isn't empowerment theater. It's surgery for women who achieved everything they were told would make them happy but feel hollow.

Perfect for women's conferences tired of surface inspiration, executive women feeling successful but unfulfilled, high-achieving teams where accomplishment feels meaningless.

Your audience builds achievement on worth foundation, not the reverse. They stop performing gratitude for lives that don't fit.

"I realized I was living someone else's definition of success." - C-Suite Executive

For organizations where successful women are secretly miserable.