What is the BEE FREE Institute?


Conscious People for Equity™ Course



The Conscious People for Equity™ will allow you to transform your life and the lives of those around you by using your power and choice to create a fair and just world at work, at home, and in your community. This course will enable you to learn the foundational principles of the Conscious Leadership for Equity Framework™ to lead yourself and others through the process of honoring our collective humanity through the advancement of equity and justice on a daily basis.

Each new module and lecture opens the door to concrete steps on how to directly apply equity to your practice.

Course participants will:

  1. Recognize and acknowledge their power, choice, and authority in every situation
  2. Use the 4-step consciousness-raising process in their daily practice
  3. Understand what triggers their collusion with inequity and how to redirect towards action
  4. Identify and respond to racism and other forms of inequity at the individual, cultural, and structural levels
  5. Use sanctuaries for their personal sustainability while leading equity work
  6. Replace the fear and doubt that thwarts their leadership for equity with trusting themselves to act from equity-based mindsets and behaviors
  7. Determine roles they want to play in the social change process + collaborating with others




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Coaches Academy

This course will enable you to learn the foundational principles of the transformative BFW Coaching Methodology to coach others through the process of living from their full power on a daily basis.

We are a self-paced cohort-based comprehensive 8-week continuing education program for coaches and mentors who want to: 

  • Become more present, self-aware, and intentional of your intuitive coaching abilities. 
  • Have more confidence to serve people that grapple with complex issues like powerlessness, bias, leadership paralysis, managing triggers, fixed mindsets, etc. 
  • Add more high-impact frameworks to their coaching handbook. 

The BFW Methodology will allow you to transform your practice by coaching people to break barriers and reclaim their power.


Meet Your Instructor

After many successful years as an intrapreneur developing and leading innovative social impact programs in education and within local communities, Dr. Annice E. Fisher took an entrepreneurial leap of faith to create a multisector, multigenerational, intersectional movement for freedom. 

In 2017, Annice founded Developing Capacity Coaching and later, their sister non-profit GiveSankofa, Inc. Collectively, the organizations focus on co-creating a world where everyone has the full and equal opportunity to benefit from the resources within their organization, community, city, and world .

Most recently, Annice is known for her Conscious Leadership for Equity™ work which is currently being integrated across a variety of sectors including judicial justice reform, government, k-12 and higher education, philanthropy, corporate, non-profits, and Hollywood. Dr. Fisher also serves as the inaugural Antiracism Pedagogy Scholar at American University, School of Education.

Her work has garnered several awards. She was most recently recognized as a Black Woman of Excellence for the Black Professionals Network, Chicago Chapter, Outstanding Young Alumni Under 40 from the Iowa State University Alumni Association and featured in The Highland Project’s Abundance Magazine and Diverse Issues in Higher Education. Annice is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She recently published her first book, "The Power Within Me: The road back home to the real you.”

In her efforts to democratize coaching, Annice launched The BEE FREE Institute, an online coaches certification hub for The BFW Coaches Academy & Conscious Leadership for Equity Coach. Annice has a B.A. in Rhetoric & Speech Communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, M. Ed in Higher Education Administration from Iowa State University, and Ed. L.D. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She holds certifications and trainings in Immunity-to-Change Coaching, HAVEN Interpersonal Violence, Safe Zone Ally, and the Social Justice Training Institute.