Turning Belief Into Action
None of this happens without people who decide to show up for it. If this is the kind of change you want to be part of, join the movement — or help fund the next school, the next shop, the next family's next step.
This work began the same way every real change does — with a refusal.
A refusal to believe that a career built in boardrooms and a life built around purpose had to be two separate things. That refusal became City Chik on a Mission, and grew into Mission & Movement.
Founded by Cheryl, Mission & Movement is a foundation dedicated to thoughtful living, purposeful leadership, and community impact that lasts — the same belief that shapes every conversation she has, whether it's with an executive team or a room full of strangers: heart and strategy were never meant to be separate.
It's built on the same Compass Point Framework that shapes her coaching and advisory work — North (Mission), East (Values), South (Strategy), West (Impact) — the difference here is scale, not substance.
The Work in practice
A framework only means something once it touches the ground. For Mission & Movement, that means investing in education, community development, and vocational training — schools and scholarships that keep kids in the classroom, libraries and local businesses that give a community its own economic footing, and training in handmade traditions that turns a community's story into a livelihood. Right now, that looks like the Renda School for Girls in Kisii, Kenya, a widowed refugee program in Kenya, and a back-to-school program in Ghana — proof that the framework holds up once it meets real life.
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Education is the door everything else walks through; if a mission can't outlast the moment, it's usually because the next generation couldn't afford to stay in school long enough to carry it forward. That's shown up as Shine Kibera in Kenya, Peace Perfect School in Ghana, and scholarships for students whose only obstacle to the classroom is cost.
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A community only holds onto change it can sustain itself — shared spaces and local income are what make impact last past the first check. That's shown up as libraries, daycare centers, and local entrepreneurs backed with real capital, including the City Chic Kriations Bead Shop in Ghana, now both a livelihood for local women and a blueprint for what's next.
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Every community carries skills worth preserving; the work is making sure those skills still pay. That's shown up as bead making, sewing, and other handmade traditions taught and preserved, carrying a community's story forward while building skills the world still pays for.