Healing-centered support for leadership, wellness, identity, and restoration.
A space for individuals, leaders, and institutions seeking grounded support, meaningful realignment, and sustainable change.
Explore ServicesThe Method Behind the Movement
About Sister W.E.L.L.S.™
Healing-centered support for leadership, wellness, identity, and restoration.
A space for individuals, leaders, and institutions seeking grounded support, meaningful realignment, and sustainable change.
If Dr. Sherrá Watkins is the voice, Sister W.E.L.L.S., PLLC is the method — the structured ecosystem that delivers her frameworks and tools into the world through consulting, coaching, training, retreats, courses, and certification. One belief anchors all of it: healing is leadership.
How We Got Here
From Sisterhood to Strategy
Sister W.E.L.L.S.™ was born from sisterhood — and has grown into a framework-driven movement for holistic wellness, leadership development, and liberation. What began as a shared conversation among Black women educators and clinicians has become a national platform centered on well-being as strategy, healing as leadership, and liberation as sustainability.
While its roots are grounded in sisterhood, its evolution reflects a deeper calling: to move from healing alone toward strategy, systems change, and leadership development. Today, Sister W.E.L.L.S.™ is the methodology and ecosystem behind the work of Dr. Sherrá Watkins — supporting individuals, leaders, and institutions who seek more than services: alignment, clarity, and lasting change.
Sister W.E.L.L.S.™ is not just a brand. It is a blueprint for leading well — without self-erasure.
Our Roots
The Founding Sisterhood
Sister W.E.L.L.S.™ was founded in 2017 by three doctoral sisters — Dr. Sherrá Watkins, Dr. Shawnté Elbert, and Dr. Charla Blumell — united by a shared calling to merge wellness, empowerment, and leadership. Today it is led by Dr. Watkins as its Principal Architect.
Hover or tap each card to read the full bio.
Dr. Sherrá Watkins
PhD, MAEd, LCMHC-S, LCAS
Executive Leader · Clinician
Dr. Sherrá Watkins
Leads the vision, strategy, and application of the W.E.L.L.S.™ Framework across leadership development, wellness strategy, and institutional transformation. With 20+ years across higher education, public health, counseling, and executive leadership, she is nationally recognized for integrating well-being, equity, and systems thinking into sustainable leadership — clarity without collapse, impact without self-erasure.
Co-Founder · Founding Architect
Dr. Shawnté Elbert
EdD, MCHES, TTS, CWHC
Public Health Strategist
Dr. Shawnté Elbert
Brings deep expertise in public health, organizational wellness, and culturally responsive leadership. Her frameworks and storytelling work help organizations translate values into practice through data-informed strategy and compassionate leadership — grounding Sister W.E.L.L.S.™ in wellness, equity, and prevention.
Co-Founder · Founding Architect
Dr. Charla Blumell
EdD, MA, CHES
Health Education Leader
Dr. Charla Blumell
Rooted in health education, prevention, and student development. She brings a strengths-based, relational approach to wellness — expanding access to education, fostering inclusive learning, and helping shape the organization's early vision and education-centered commitment.
What We Believe
Wellness is a birthright, not a luxury. Equity is practice, not performance. And the goal isn't resilience inside broken systems — it's building systems people don't have to recover from.
Wellness is not separate from leadership, identity, or belonging. The work of becoming whole requires space for reflection, truth-telling, restoration, and aligned action.
Mission
To restore, realign, and reimagine leadership, wellness, and identity — through a healing-centered, equity-informed, and spiritually grounded (not religion-based) approach that empowers individuals and institutions to thrive.
Core Values
Everything Sister W.E.L.L.S.™ stands for spells W.E.L.L.S.
Wholeness
Honoring the full person — mind, body, spirit, identity, and story.
Equity
Treating fairness, access, and justice as everyday practice, not performance.
Liberation
Interrupting internalized and systemic harm so people live and lead freely.
Lived Experience
Trusting lived experience as expertise — real stories over theory alone.
Sustainability
Building healing, leadership, and change designed to last, without burnout.
The W.E.L.L.S.™ Method
Through the Sister W.E.L.L.S.™ Method, Dr. Watkins helps individuals and institutions move from burnout and fragmentation to alignment, clarity, and sustainable impact.
W
Wholeness
Reclaiming the full self — mind, body, spirit, and story — as the foundation for sustainable leadership.
E
Empowerment
Activating agency through self-awareness, education, and embodied confidence.
L
Lead with Intention
Aligning leadership, strategy, and decisions with clear values and vision.
L
Liberation
Interrupting internalized and systemic harm to build equity-centered, psychologically safe cultures.
S
Sustain + Shift Culture
Creating new patterns and systems rooted in care, equity, and joy — built to last.