About

Cassi Chandler, the trailblazing first female African American special agent assistant director in the FBI, stands as a transformative leader with a wealth of experience in shattering glass ceilings and adeptly steering intricate teams. With expertise spanning DEI, risk management, leadership, and the influence of emerging technologies, she imparts insightful lessons and actionable strategies anyone can apply in order to make an impact as a motivational leader. As she explains, “A leader is not necessarily someone that oversees a team or a group of individuals. You lead every day. Everybody you run across.”

Show, Don’t Tell: What It Means to Be a Motivational Leader. Working at the highest levels of the intelligence and banking industries, Cassi Chandler has built and nurtured diverse, high-performing teams and empowered their success in navigating high-priority intelligence and risk matters. As an expert in motivational leadership, she offers a compelling look at the role leaders play in contributing to the well-being of their teams by motivating and inspiring their people.  

In this interactive discussion, she analyzes the elements of motivational leadership that spark high performance in teams — outlining actionable steps for leading with empathy.

A motivational leadership expert known for breaking glass ceilings and becoming the FBI’s first African-American female special agent assistant director, Cassi Chandler draws from her decades of professional experience to inspire transformation and share thought-provoking leadership lessons and actionable insights with her listeners.

A captivating storyteller, Chandler is sure to immerse her audience as she retraces her journey reinvigorating the world’s leading intelligence organization in the post-9/11 landscape, managing risk, and driving global equity at one of the world’s top multi-national banks.