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I build systems.
And stories.
And sometimes,
myself.
I’m Iman Zenoria. A leader, problem solver,
writer, and orator based in Memphis.
This is where my work, my words, and the person I’m becoming meet. Welcome to my little corner of the internet.
Read the Notes ↗of the internet↓
01 / FIND YOUR WAY IN
Four rooms. One woman. A whole life.A few things
I keep coming back to.
Becoming Her
Identity, confidence, creativity, and learning who you are beyond what everyone needs from you.
Who am I when I stop being useful? ↗Mothering While Becoming
Raising a child, practicing repair, and keeping the woman in the picture. Both of us are growing.
A mother. And still myself. ↗The Soft Boss
Clear expectations. Difficult conversations. Authority that leaves room for humanity.
Soft does not mean small. ↗Life After the Before
Grief, love, memory, and the life we still get to create after everything changes.
There is still life here. ↗02 / A NOTE FROM ME
One person.
Several open tabs.
My career lives in operations.
My curiosity lives pretty much everywhere else.
I’ve grown from the ground up in multifamily property management into operational leadership. I care about how things work, how people grow, and what happens when we make room to change.
Outside of the spreadsheets, I write. About leadership. Work. Becoming. Family. Identity. Grief. The strange experience of being a person with several tabs permanently open in her brain. And sometimes, I just make things up.
I’m a writer, an orator, a mother, a Black woman, and a person still figuring some things out. All of that comes with me.
If something here helps you put a feeling into words, handle a hard conversation, or feel a little more like yourself, I’m glad you found it.
Welcome to my little corner of the internet.
— Iman
03 / NOTES FROM THE MIDDLE
Visit the writing archive ↗Some things belong
in a story.
On becoming, work, love, and being human. And sometimes, a little fiction.
04 / THE SOFT BOSS
Soft outside. Strategic inside.Making the
complicated
work better.
People. Process. Performance.
I lead teams and portfolios through the messy middle: bringing clarity to operations, building useful systems, and helping people do their best work. I’m interested in how we do that with clear expectations, a little empathy, and less unnecessary chaos.
Language for difficult conversations +
“I want to understand what’s getting in the way. The expectation still stands. Let’s be clear about what happens next and what support you need.”
Care, clarity, and accountability belong in the same conversation.
Systems that leave room for people +
A useful system makes the next step clear, gives responsibility a home, and lets people ask for help before a problem becomes a crisis.
Growing into your own authority +
You can be learning and still be capable. You can listen carefully, make a decision, and stand behind it without borrowing someone else’s hardness.
MOTHERING WHILE BECOMING
Both of us
are growing.
There’s the mother I want to be. And then there’s the woman I am at the end of a very long day. I’m interested in the space between them: the repair, the boundaries, the laughter, and the room to be human.
What would it look like to care for yourself as part of caring for your family?
LIFE AFTER THE BEFORE
Changed.
Still here.
Some things divide a life into before and after. I don’t believe every loss needs a lesson attached. Sometimes we need words for what remains, room for what hurts, and permission to have a good day.
You can honor what happened and still have a future.
BECOMING HER / THE THREAD THROUGH IT ALL
Still figuring
a few things out.
There’s a thread running through the work and the writing: how we build a life that feels like our own.
I don’t have a finished version of myself to introduce you to. I have stories, questions, things I’ve learned the hard way, and a few systems that actually help. That feels like a place to start.
I hope it makes a little room for you to be a whole person, too. The middle is the life.
Start with a story ↗I have lived enough
to have something
to say.
I am still living
enough to have
something to learn.
CURRENTLY THINKING ABOUT
“How do you build accountability
without building a culture of fear?”
You know. Light stuff.