FRAME Leadership Group
Leading Institutional Change with Clarity, Courage, and Emotional Intelligence
We help complex institutions strengthen leadership ecosystems, align culture with strategy, and navigate high stake transitions with clarity
Founded by Dr. Tracie Jones Barrett, executive leader and institutional advisor specializing in systems-level transformation, public-sector leadership, and emotional intelligence.
Meet Dr. Tracie Jones-Barrett
Dr. Tracie Jones-Barrett is an executive leadership strategist, speaker, and scholar who helps leaders and organizations navigate complexity, strengthen culture, and lead with emotional intelligence, clarity, and purpose.
As an Advisor for Leadership Development at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Founder of Frame Leadership Group, LLC, her work sits at the intersection of leadership development, organizational transformation, and human-centered strategy.
She specializes in supporting leaders—particularly women and senior executives—through moments of transition, growth, and institutional change. Drawing from decades of experience across higher education, executive leadership, and equity-centered organizational strategy, she helps individuals and institutions move from reaction to intentional leadership.
Her signature FRAME Leadership Model—Focus, Reflect, Act, Mend, Elevate—provides leaders with a practical and transformative approach to building trust, navigating conflict, and creating lasting impact.
How I Work with Leaders & Organizations
Partnering with executive leaders, institutions, and organizations to navigate complexity, strengthen leadership capacity, and build cultures rooted in trust, belonging, and sustainable change.
Delivering powerful conversations on leadership, emotional intelligence, women’s leadership, and organizational transformation that challenge audiences to lead with courage and clarity.
Designing and facilitating high-impact leadership experiences that move beyond inspiration to practical reflection, skill-building, and measurable growth.
The FRAME Leadership Model
Leadership transformation requires more than insight.
It requires disciplined practice.
The FRAME Leadership Model is a structured approach to building leadership capacity in complex institutions. Designed for moments of transition, tension, and reinvention, FRAME equips leaders to move from reaction to intentional strategy.
Focus. Reflect. Act. Mend. Elevate.
Focus
Clarify what matters most.
Leaders identify core priorities, institutional values, and strategic leverage points to reduce noise and align effort
Reflect
Develop self-awareness and system awareness.
Through disciplined reflection, leaders examine assumptions, power dynamics, and patterns shaping their decisions.
Act
Move from insight to implementation.
FRAME emphasizes decisive, values-aligned action that advances institutional goals while strengthening trust.
Mend
Repair and recalibrate.
Leadership requires the courage to address breakdowns, restore relationships, and build resilience after conflict or change.
Elevate
Expand leadership impact.
Leaders cultivate the next generation, embed sustainable systems, and strengthen culture beyond their individual influence.
FRAME is not a workshop. It is a leadership architecture.
It builds durable capacity for institutions navigating complexity.
When practiced consistently, FRAME transforms leadership from positional authority into cultural stewardship.
Events
The Palmetto Graduate Chapter’s Royal Tea Party
May 23, 2026
Doty Field House
Dr. Tracie Jones-Barrett will be at The Palmetto Graduate Chapter’s Royal Tea Party as a Keynote Speaker. Focusing on our self-worth, confidence, and honoring personal achievements.
Insights
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Trusting What I Can’t See Yet
In Portugal, Dr. Tracie found herself confronting something many leaders quietly struggle with: the discomfort of not knowing what comes next. Standing at the edge of the ocean, she began to realize that clarity doesn’t always come from forcing answers, but from learning to trust the unfolding process. This reflection explores leadership, uncertainty, surrender, and the quiet strength it takes to move forward without guarantees. A thoughtful piece on becoming, alignment, and trusting yourself in seasons of transition.
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What I Found in the Silence
During her time in Portugal, Dr. Tracie discovered a kind of silence that went beyond rest. In the stillness, away from urgency and expectation, she began reconnecting with her inner voice, intuition, and truth. This reflective piece explores leadership, surrender, and the courage it takes to pause long enough to truly listen inward.
Recent Leadership Engagements
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Research Institutions
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Research Institutions
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Municipal Partners
Testimonial
“Dr. Jones Barrett’s leadership framework transformed how our executive team approaches culture and strategy.”
Monica Sutton — Circle Time with Ms Monica