Courageous Conversations
Stop avoiding the conversations that matter most and learn how to navigate difficult discussions with clarity, confidence, and psychological safety.
Your ERG Deserves More Than Another Meeting.
The uBuntu Power Hour Experience turns your next ERG gathering into a space where people feel seen, heard, and re-energized to lead in 60 minutes.
Facilitated in English · Spanish · French for teams that think globally.
Book a Discovery CallYour People Are Showing Up, But Are They Really Connected?
ERG meetings are getting harder to plan, harder to fill, and harder to justify.
Leaders are burned out. Employees are craving real connection. Teams are navigating generational tension, change fatigue, and the pressure to lead inclusively, without the tools to do it.
Most organizations respond with another panel. Another presentation. Another hour where people sit, listen, and leave unchanged.
Your people deserve better than that.
The uBuntu Power Hour Experience
The uBuntu Power Hour Experience is a 60-minute interactive facilitation experience: not a lecture, not a keynote, not a sit-back-and-listen session.
It is a guided, discussion-based experience where your team actually talks to each other. Across difference. Across seniority. Across everything that usually keeps people quiet.
Participants leave thinking differently, communicating differently, and leading differently.
See If a Power Hour Is Right for Your TeamEvery Power Hour is:
- Fully facilitated, no prep required from your team
- Discussion-based and psychologically safe
- Customized to your team's context and goals
- Available virtually or in person
- Deliverable in English, Spanish, or French
"I Am Because We Are."
Ubuntu is an African philosophy that says our humanity is bound together. That we do not rise alone. That the strength of a team is inseparable from the belonging each person feels within it.
This is human-centered leadership development rooted in UBUNTU, designed to help people connect across differences, communicate with intention, and work together to solve the challenges that impact culture, performance, and trust.
Hermence Matsotsa did not discover Ubuntu in a book. She was raised in it.
Born and shaped by lived global experience across cultures, languages, and continents, Hermence brings something most facilitators cannot: an embodied understanding of what it means to lead across difference, build connection in complexity, and create spaces where every voice belongs.
She speaks three languages fluently: English, Spanish, and French. Not as a credential, but as a lived reality that makes her uniquely equipped to serve multinational teams, global ERGs, and organizations where the workforce itself reflects the world.
Every Session. Designed to Move People.
Leadership & Communication
From Triggered to Intentional™
Navigating Conflict with Positive Intelligence
Explore how emotional triggers impact workplace communication and learn practical strategies for responding with greater intention, awareness, and control.
Creating a Workplace Where People Feel Safe to Speak
Build trust, inclusive communication, and leadership behaviors that encourage employees to share ideas, concerns, and perspectives openly.
Resilience During Change
Leading Through Uncertainty Without Losing Trust
Support leaders and teams through uncertainty, workplace tension, and organizational change while maintaining connection, trust, and emotional resilience.
Team & Workplace Culture
Beyond Surface Conversations
Building Real Connection in the Workplace
Create meaningful employee connection through belonging, psychological safety, empathy, and human-centered communication.
Team Connection & Collaboration
Rebuilding the Relational Fabric of Teams
Strengthen collaboration, trust, and workplace relationships in teams navigating stress, disconnection, and communication breakdowns.
Leading and Collaborating Across Cultures and Distance
Strengthen global team communication, cultural intelligence, collaboration across differences, and inclusive meeting environments.
Different Generations. Different Worlds. One Team.™
Bridging Global and Generational Differences at Work
Explore how culture, generation, technology, and lived experiences shape communication, leadership expectations, feedback styles, and workplace collaboration.
Wellness & Sustainable Leadership
Leading Without Burning Out
Mental Fitness for ERG Leaders and High Performers
Support ERG leaders and high achievers carrying emotional labor, over-responsibility, volunteer fatigue, and workplace pressure.
The Cost of Holding It All Together
A powerful conversation for women leaders and high performers navigating burnout, perfectionism, pressure, emotional labor, and the hidden weight of constantly “holding it together.”
Boundaries Without Guilt
Protecting Your Energy While Still Showing Up
Help ERG leaders and employees set healthier boundaries, manage expectations, and sustain their energy without feeling selfish, unavailable, or disconnected from their purpose.
Purpose Without Pressure
Sustaining Advocacy, Leadership, and Service Without Losing Yourself
Support ERG leaders and mission-driven professionals in reconnecting to purpose while releasing the pressure to carry everything, fix everything, or be everything for everyone.
Don’t see exactly what your ERG, team, or organization needs?
Every uBuntu Power Hour Experience can be customized to reflect your audience, workplace culture, current challenges, and desired outcomes.
Let’s Customize Your SessionOne Hour. Endless Possibilities.
Power Hours are designed to fit the way your organization already works.
Lunch & Learn: A midday reset that actually refuels your people.
ERG Engagement Session: Your heritage month or leadership event, elevated.
Leadership Development Hour: Practical tools your managers use the next morning.
Conference Breakout Session: The session people are still talking about on the flight home.
Women's Leadership Conversation: A space built specifically for women navigating the complexity of leading.
Global Team Discussion: Facilitated across languages and time zones for multinational teams.
Wellness & Mental Fitness Experience: Because sustainable leadership starts from the inside out.
Designed for the People Who Build Culture.
ERG Chairs & Co-Chairs
You're a volunteer leader running an ERG on top of a full-time job. You need programming that is easy to book, guaranteed to land, and powerful enough to make your members come back next time. Power Hours handle the content, the facilitation, and the energy, so you don't have to.
CHROs & Chief People Officers
You're navigating a workforce that is burned out, politically charged, and craving connection. You need programming that works under scrutiny: language that is universal, outcomes that are measurable, and facilitation that is sophisticated enough to put in front of your executives. Power Hours deliver belonging outcomes without the political friction.
L&D & Talent Development Directors
You need more than a one-off event. You need development experiences that build skills, shift behavior, and connect to your leadership pipeline. Power Hours can be deployed as standalone sessions or structured into a 6 to 12 session annual series, integrated directly into your existing leadership curriculum.
The Room Was Never the Same After.
"I've sat through hundreds of ERG sessions. Hermence's Power Hour was the first one where people actually talked to each other, not at each other. Our ERG members are still referencing the conversation three months later."
"We brought Hermence in for our Women's Leadership session and honestly did not know what to expect. What happened in that room was extraordinary. She created psychological safety in the first five minutes. People shared things they had never said out loud at work. Our executive sponsor called it the best 60 minutes we had invested in our people all year."
"We run a global team across four countries and three languages. Hermence facilitated in both English and French, seamlessly, and made every single person feel like the session was designed for them. We booked three more sessions before the first one was over."
"The Power Hour format is unlike anything else on the market. Hermence does not talk at your people; she guides them into talking to each other. The energy, the safety, the depth of conversation: it is not something you can manufacture. It is something she brings."
Choose the Power Hour That Meets Your Moment
For ERGs, leaders, and organizations ready to turn meaningful conversations into stronger connection, deeper trust, and real workplace impact, three Power Hour options are available.
The Single Power Hour
One 60-minute facilitated experience for your ERG, leadership team, or organization. Fully customized to your context and goals.
Starting at $5,000.
The 3-Pack Bundle
Three Power Hours designed as a connected series, ideal for heritage month programming, leadership cohorts, or quarterly team development.
Starting at $13,500.
The Annual ERG Retainer
Six Power Hours across your calendar year, plus quarterly planning calls and branded session recaps. The most impactful and most cost-effective way to build belonging at scale.
Starting at $25,000.
All sessions available virtually or in person. Multi-ERG enterprise packages available for organizations with multiple resource groups. Inquire for details.
Hermence Matsotsa
Transformational Leadership Strategist, Facilitator, and Global Speaker Helping High-Performing Professionals and Teams Turn Conversation Into Connection, Trust, and Impact
Hermence Matsotsa is not your typical facilitator.
She did not learn inclusion from a certification program or a consulting framework. She learned it from living across cultures, across languages, across experiences that most people only read about in case studies.
With more than two decades of experience working with high-performing professionals and leaders across cultures, industries, and languages, Hermence creates human-centered spaces where people feel safe enough to speak, lead, and solve real workplace challenges together.
Hermence brings the philosophy of Ubuntu, "I am because we are," not as a borrowed concept but as a lived inheritance. It is the lens through which she leads, facilitates, and builds spaces where people feel safe enough to be real.
Through the uBuntu Power Hour Experience, she has helped ERG leaders, executive teams, and organizations across industries create the kinds of conversations that change how people show up at work and beyond.
She facilitates fluently in English, Spanish, and French, making her one of the few facilitators in the world equipped to serve truly global teams without losing depth, nuance, or connection in translation.
When the room needs to change, Hermence is who you call.
Schedule a Conversation with HermenceYour Next Conversation Could Change Everything.
Its worth a 30-minute conversation.
No pressure. No pitch deck. Just an honest conversation about where your team is, what your people need, and whether a Power Hour is the right fit.
Book Your Discovery Call Now