15+Years across branding, sales and entrepreneurship
30+Founders supported in an 8-week accelerator
J.D.Legal education applied to strategy and responsible AI
GlobalTeaching, research and speaking experience

What we do

Build your brand.
Grow your business.

Brand Development

Define your positioning, message, offers, and visual direction.

Marketing, Content & Media

Turn your strategy into campaigns, copy, media opportunities, and useful content that keeps the brand visible.

Client Experience & Growth

Strengthen lead generation, onboarding, retention, sales communication, and customer advocacy.

Selected work

Brands I’ve built.

Different industries. Distinct identities. Explore the work behind each brand.

Our Services

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Ready when you are

Let’s make your
next move your best one.

A complimentary 20-minute conversation for entrepreneurs, founders, organizations, and personal brands considering BDPD Consulting. We’ll discuss your goals, current challenges, and the most useful next step. This is a discovery conversation—not a full strategy session.

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Before we get started

Find your
best next step.

Answer three quick questions so I can understand what you are building and where support would be most useful.

Client fit profile3 questions · about 2 minutes
01What do you need most right now?
02Where are you in the process?
03What kind of support feels right?
Brand StrategyCreative DirectionMarketingBusiness Development
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A little support. A clear next step.

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Starting, pivoting, or growing? Ask your business questions, create content, and organize your next move with the It Girl assistant.

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01

Strategy

Clarify your positioning, audience, offers, brand voice, customer journey, priorities, and the decisions shaping your next move.

02

Content

Develop campaigns, hooks, captions, scripts, newsletters, website copy, editorial concepts, and branded visuals that sound and feel like you.

03

Systems

Turn scattered ideas into practical workflows, project plans, content calendars, follow-up sequences, reusable templates, and clear delegation.

04

Research

Explore audiences, industries, competitors, trends, partnerships, and emerging questions—then translate the findings into useful direction.

05

Opportunity Development

Shape services, products, collaborations, speaking ideas, programs, proposals, and revenue pathways around what you already know and do well.

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Meet the strategist

DaVonna May, J.D.

Global Educator · AI Strategist · Brand Architect · Entrepreneurship Program Leader

DaVonna built her first company from scratch into an award-winning accessories and styling brand whose work reached international runways, celebrity clients, and more than 20 magazine publications. That operator experience now informs how she helps founders turn original ideas into clear brands, stronger customer relationships, and practical growth systems.

Her background includes leading an eight-week accelerator for 30+ founders at the Center for Black Innovation in Miami, teaching adult learners how to apply AI, guest lecturing internationally, conducting research with Sunway University, moderating and speaking with GatherVerse, and directing branding, marketing, and operations for Mossman Sea Moss.

Center for Black Innovation · 2022

Accelerator Leadership
& Founder Development

Led the team delivering an eight-week accelerator supporting more than 30 founders.

DaVonna connected curriculum, mentors and facilitators, founder communication, workshop delivery, and program operations—from onboarding through completion.

01Program & team leadership

Led the delivery team across the eight-week accelerator, coordinating people, priorities, timelines, and the founder experience from onboarding through completion.

02Curriculum coordination

Connected the program curriculum with the right mentors, facilitators, workshops, and learning milestones for more than 30 participating founders.

03Founder support & communication

Maintained clear communication with founders, answered program questions, supported participation, and helped keep each entrepreneur moving through the experience.

04Workshop & pitch development

Supported workshop delivery and founder pitch preparation so participants could strengthen their ideas, communicate their value, and present their businesses with confidence.

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Institutional partnerships

IT GIRL

Talent &
Innovation Lab

Where AI skills meet real-world experience.

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An experience-led workforce development platform connecting structured digital-business training with supervised work, mentorship, portfolio proof, and real pathways to employment or entrepreneurship.

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01

Train

A proposed 12-week cohort covering AI literacy, branding, marketing, automation, customer experience, finance, and business fundamentals.

02

Experience

Participants complete supervised employer projects with mentoring, feedback, assessment, a capstone, and portfolio-ready evidence.

03

Create Pathways

The model supports employment, apprenticeships, freelance work, continued education, and entrepreneurship.

Partner with the Lab

Sponsor seats. Host a project. Refer talent. Create pathways.

Partnership conversations are open to workforce agencies, colleges and universities, foundations, corporate workforce initiatives, small and midsize businesses, nonprofits, and startups.

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Client feedback

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thinking behind the work.