About

Dr. Rita is CEO & Founder of Global Visionaries Inc., specializing in transformational leadership, branding, and strategic business growth, empowering organizations to reinvent themselves, redefine their impact and rise to new levels of distinction and success.

 

She is a seasoned international management and change consultant with over 25 years of experience across five diverse industries. As a transformational business growth strategist and organizational psychologist, she blends business acumen with humanistic and transpersonal insights to guide organizations through complex challenges, drive innovation, and foster sustainable growth. Renowned for her mastery in transformational leadership and high-impact communication, Dr. Rita empowers executives and organizations to transform from the inside out, redefining their positioning and growth strategies, expanding their influence. She specializes in executive branding, high-impact messaging, and narrative development, guiding leaders and organizations to cultivate their leadership presence and strengthen their distinction and influence in the market. Dr. Rita is recognized for her ability to anticipate and lead market trends, addressing complex challenges with vision, agility and foresight. She champions collaborative partnerships that create value, empowering executives and entrepreneurs to unlock new opportunities, cultivate meaningful connections, and achieve measurable results on a global scale.

 

Dr. Rita has worked extensively with high-level executives—both men and women—particularly in the Tech, Retail, and Finance industries, guiding them to transform their leadership, drive exponential growth, and make high-impact decisions that create lasting change. Her approach integrates a deep understanding of human potential with innovative business strategies, empowering clients to elevate their leadership, optimize performance, and achieve sustainable transformation. Through a highly personalized and results-driven methodology, she has helped countless entrepreneurs, executives, and visionaries break through barriers, expand their influence, and make a profound impact in their industries.

 

In select engagements, she leads deep narrative development with visionary founders and creative leaders—particularly at inflection points of scale, transition, or global expansion. This is not surface-level branding or messaging. It is a high-touch, reflective process that distills the essence of a brand—its origin, voice, values, and impact—into a narrative architecture that travels across cultures, partners, and time. The work reveals the creative soul behind the brand, translating a life’s work into a story that aligns internal teams, amplifies external influence, and positions the brand for enduring relevance and cross-cultural resonance.

 

In addition to her work with leaders and developing human capital in organizations, Dr. Rita has a strong track record in helping founders and co-founders, strategically build businesses. She partners with leaders to reimagine possibility, unlock untapped potential, and architect lasting growth—from recalibrating business models to catalyzing clarity in direction, operations, and leadership. Her work generates measurable outcomes while transforming the way organizations and its leaders, think, grow, and lead. She excels in identifying market opportunities, optimizing resources, and fostering innovation to position organizations for long-term success.

  

As a strategic advisor and external growth consultant, Dr. Rita also specializes in connecting high-potential startups—from Series A onward—with aligned investors, ensuring both the integrity of the capital deployed and the long-term scalability of the business. Her work extends beyond introductions: she serves as a trusted architect of growth, an advisor, supporting leadership in refining business models, strengthening operational infrastructure, and preparing for accelerated market expansion. With a dual commitment to protecting investor interests and unlocking the full potential of the enterprise, she acts as both a catalyst and a steward—building value, mitigating risk, and positioning companies for sustainable success.

 

In parallel to her work with both high-growth ventures and established companies, Dr. Rita has also cultivated a powerful global body of work dedicated to the advancement of women in leadership and influence. She has partnered with visionary women leaders and influencers across five continents and 22 countries. Through her global experience, she has gained profound insights into the universal threads that unite women in their pursuit of voice, visibility, relevance, and the desire to create meaningful impact. Dr. Rita intimately understands the transformation required for women to ascend to leadership mastery, becoming trailblazing forces in political, social, and economic spheres, driving change on a global scale. She has extensive international and cross- cultural experience that gives her leverage in working with companies and leaders globally. Dr. Rita is most exceptionally and especially known for her charismatic way of communicating and inspiring others to unleash their full

potential and rise to greater heights.

 

Through her mentoring, she empowers women to elevate their financial and leadership potential, guiding them through deep personal transformation that enhances their credibility, visibility, and influence. By unlocking their full potential, Dr. Rita enables women to extend their reach, amplify their impact, and increase their income. She has been leading empowerment seminars for women for over 25 years. 

 

In her work with highly accomplished women—visionaries, founders, public figures, and global influencers—Dr. Rita serves as a confidential strategist, thought partner, and catalyst for next-level leadership. Her mentorship goes beyond professional advancement; it’s about legacy, alignment, and unleashing bold new dimensions of purpose and power. Whether navigating a pivotal transition, expanding global influence, or redefining what leadership looks like at the highest levels, Dr. Rita creates the space for women to elevate not just what they do, but who they are in the world.

 

Across the board, she is passionate about working with companies and businesses that want to leverage their greatest resources, go to the next level, and make a global impact. Her work focuses on bringing innovative ideas and uncovering extraordinary human potential within individuals and organizations, advancing women’s leadership and the application of transformational technologies to individuals, businesses and organizations.

 

Dr. Rita’s expertise spans multi-billion-dollar corporations, disruptive start-ups, and everything in between. A sought-after advisor to top leaders in the private and public sectors, she has worked extensively across the Financial, Environmental, Technology, and Retail industries, as well as the non-profit world. She excels at raising capital for ICOs and securing critical funding for high-growth start-ups. Consulting globally, she advises companies, high-profile leaders, influential figures and celebrities, while also serving on multiple boards.

 

Dr. Rita’s partial client list includes *Exxon *Groupon *General Electric*Motorola *The Gap* Macys* Citibank *Smith Barney *Google *Williams-Sonoma, *Levi Strauss, *Chicago Tribune, *Benefit, *Arch Ventures, *Goldman Sachs, *Herbert Mines Associates, *Heidrick & Struggles, *Greenpeace, *Lucent Technologies, *Environmental Grant Makers, *Investors Circle, *Unstoppable Foundation.

 

In 2015, Dr. Rita was featured in Forbes as a “Game Changer” for her groundbreaking work with women business leaders globally, helping them distinguish themselves in the marketplace and become a driving force in reshaping the global economy. She has also received several awards including the "Global Diversity & Inclusion" award and the "Women's Excellence Award for High Achievement in Leadership. In 2017, she was awarded a fellowship for her outstanding work in the field of women and leadership and her concomitant contribution to a national initiative called “Creativity, Longevity, and Wisdom,” a project of the Institute for Social Innovation. Most recently she has been selected as one of the Top100 women leaders in the Middle east at the 6th edition of Women Leaders Summit Awards, 2025.

 

Recognized for her extraordinary philanthropic endeavors and lifelong service to humanity, Dr. Rita was knighted as a Dame of Honor by the Orthodox Order of Saint John Russian Grand Priory—one of the oldest humanitarian orders, renowned for its centuries-long commitment to charitable works and social innovation. 

 

 

She is a founding faculty member for Compassion Happens, Inc., Faculty member of The Living University; founding member of Wisdom’s Goldenrod, a Center for Philosophic Studies, The Institute for Psychological Medicine; Institute for Evolutionary Leadership, member of UNICEF Guardian Circle, and is a member of the Association for Transformational Leaders, a forum for individuals of significant influence in artistic, academic, social, political, corporate and humanitarian endeavors, devoted to doing transformational work in their respective fields, while creating a world that is socially just, environmentally sustainable, and spiritually fulfilling. 

 

She is also the originator of “MenSpeak” -a powerful national movement (U.S.) of men advocating for women rising. She facilitated the first all men's panel at a Goddess Rising retreat in Sant Barbara, CA in 2017. She is the author of an upcoming book on Transformation & Actualizing Human Potential.

 

As an advocate for women’s economic empowerment, Dr. Rita is committed to advancing women’s leadership and cultivating future female world leaders. A sought-after keynote speaker, she travels globally to inspire women to become a powerful political, economic, and social force for change. Dr. Rita holds master’s degrees in Clinical Psychology and Human and Organizational development, and a doctorate in Human Development & Organizational Systems with a specialization in Global Leadership. 

 

She is now spearheading a transformative movement, uniting influential leaders to co-create a radically different future for our world.