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I use speaking and coaching to help audiences cultivate next-level leadership, self-care, and performance shifts in business and life. I enjoy traveling the world promoting leadership wellness and empowering leaders and organizations to navigate disruption, maximize business results, and practice self-care.

I have been in corporate leadership for more than 30 years. My teams and I have worked with public and private clients such as the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Postal Service, Washington Group International, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, M & T Bank, U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs, New York State Power Authority, T.D. Jakes Enterprises, colleges, universities, state agencies, and Fortune 100 companies, worldwide.

I am a proud wife, evolving parent, courageous entrepreneur, empowering motivational speaker, and pragmatic corporate advisor. I am dedicated to helping you be unstoppable and uninterrupted in every area of life.

I have been speaking internationally and providing organizational leadership consulting to organizations and leaders across the globe. In May of 2021, I was blessed to marry my best friend, Dr. Lawrence Hardy. We have been traveling and enjoying life together with our family and children.

I recently partnered with Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology to create an exciting extending education Executive Leadership Certificate Program. It is a dynamic program designed to engage, inspire, educate, and empower influential leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives in the national and global marketplace. The objective of the program is to equip leaders and executives to cultivate extraordinary leadership functioning as they navigate the new era of transformation, innovation, and disruption.

I started working in my family construction business when I was 14 years old. I became a teen mom and started college at 17. At the age of 21, I completed college and started my first construction company, with a $10,000 graduation gift from my parents. My company, life, and leadership began to grow by leaps and bounds. I experienced major triumphs, major challenges, high-level decision-making, arduous pressure, and burnout during my career tenure.

Almost 3 decades later, my team and I have overseen and completed more than $500 million in construction and development projects across the United States. In addition, I have spoken for organizations and ministries all over the world. My journey has been both exhilarating and demanding. I have experienced trauma, heartaches, betrayal, victories, divorce, fame, depression, bankruptcy, and burnout. Personal and professional struggles along with the tough times became memorable life lessons. Those times are when my greatest life and leadership lessons emerged. I learned to be brave, capable, authentic, and powerful. My secret weapons are my faith, prayer, family, leadership, self-care, and being uncompromisingly resilient.

In addition to being a wife, mother, and business leader, I am an ordained minister and leader of the “Women of Power” Women’s Ministry, at the House of Judah church in Baton Rouge, La., where my husband, Dr. Lawrence D. Hardy is senior pastor. I am currently celebrating 27 years in ministry and I am blessed to share my leadership acumen, success, and business strategies internationally, through consulting, keynote addresses, and conferences with organizations, ministries, and megachurches worldwide.

My life journey has been incredible, and I am grateful to share a beautiful blended family of six children with my husband and best friend.

I am the founder of Sundra Ryce, Inc. and Ryce Development LLC. I have been blessed to have more than 30 years of professional speaking, leadership, business, and entrepreneurial experience. During my career, I have successfully overseen and completed more than $500 million in construction and development projects across the U.S. I provide vision, strategy, and corporate leadership to organizations and executive leaders worldwide.

FEATURED AWARDS & INDUSTRY RECOGNITION

Dr. Sundra Ryce Hardy serves as a trustee on corporate boards in the U.S., providing leadership, vision, and corporate expertise. Dr. Sundra has received numerous awards and recognition, including:

  • Named one of the nation’s top 100 largest black businesses by Black Enterprise Magazine

  • Top woman-owned business in New York

  • Top minority-owned business in Western New York. U.S. SBA national firm of the year

  • National 40 under 40 business executive

  • Featured in Ebony Magazine’s Power Issue

  • Featured in Essence Magazine’s Money & Power Issue

  • Featured on the cover of Black Enterprise Magazine in February 2012, for the Rising Stars 40 & Under: The Next Generation of Women of Power issue