Bonika Wilson’s passion for community extends beyond her professional endeavors. She consistently strives to improve the lives of those around her. The Author and Business Powerhouse has developed a one-of-a-kind blueprint for couples to tackle day-to-day challenges, plan for them strategically, build a legacy, and leave a dynasty.
The inspiration behind her brand is about leaving a legacy, making an impact, and enhancing communities by sharing a blueprint for creating and obtaining healthy families that can be shared and reproduced to change the trajectory/direction of our culture and our country.
As an instrumental change agent, she has served in many roles and has a diverse background, however, change management has been consistent in each role. In her current role, Bonika leads strategies around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and supports programs that advance economic mobility.
Bonika Wilson is a renowned advocate for change and diversity with over 26 years of experience in guiding businesses through complex organizational challenges. Now, Wilson is leveraging successful business practices to guide high-power couples in the application of these strategies to maximize results in their relationships and marriages. With a firm belief in the power of strategic planning, she brings her unique perspective from the corporate world to marital relationships. Her compelling journey from the financial sector to leading WCM Firm Incorporated, coupled with her transformative personal experiences, culminate in her latest book. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Bonika now resides in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband, Donta’, and their three children, Jalen, Dylan, and Baylor.
According to Divorce.Com, Couples going through their first divorce are around the age of 30 and married couples between the ages of 20 to 25 are 60% likely to get a divorce. We would like to introduce our readers to Bonika Wilson, who uses strategic planning principles to help couples build successful and fulfilling marriages.
Bonika is also a renowned advocate for change and diversity with over 26 years of experience in guiding businesses through complex organizational challenges. She leverages successful business practices to guide high-power couples in the application of these strategies to maximize results in their relationships and marriages.
Let’s learn more about Bonika and the work that she does.
What was the inspiration behind your brand?
Bonika: My brand is about leaving a legacy, making an impact, and enhancing communities by sharing a blueprint for creating and obtaining healthy families that can be shared and reproduced to change the trajectory/direction of our culture and our country.
What makes your business unique?
Bonika: My solutions-oriented approach, combined with a true passion for inclusive communities, and healthy families. I have developed a one-of-a-kind blueprint for couples to tackle day-to-day challenges, plan for them strategically, build a legacy, and leave a dynasty.
What’s your best piece of advice for aspiring and new entrepreneurs?
Bonika: Follow your passion and align your businesses with your gifts, talents, and knowledge. And of course, develop a strategy (business plan) for accomplishing your vision. Last, align yourself with knowledgeable mentors and an amazing team who believes in your mission.
What are your thoughts on the saying, “Happy wife, happy life?”
Bonika: If a happy wife understands her role is to ensure her husband and children (if they exist) are also happy, then absolutely. The role of both the husband and wife is to pour into each other to be full so that they can bring their best selves to their children, family, and community.
If you could have anyone in the world read your book, who would it be?
Bonika: I would like for people who are hopeful and inspired to have a successful marriage and leave a dynasty to read my book. These couples are looking for proven tools and resources and will commit to utilizing the tools to achieve their goal of a dynamic marriage.
We Empower Magazine readers, please meet Bonika Wilson, a renowned advocate for change and diversity with over 26 years of experience in guiding businesses through complex organizational challenges. As of late, Bonika has been leveraging successful business practices to guide high-power couples in the application of these strategies to maximize results in their relationships and marriages.
Bonika has become successful due to her solutions-oriented approach, combined with a true passion for inclusive communities, and healthy families. She’s developed a one-of-a-kind blueprint for couples to tackle day-to-day challenges, plan for them strategically, build a legacy, and leave a dynasty.
Please enjoy our interview as we discuss success, work-life balance, mental health, and more.
What do you define as success?
Bonika: Living life with clearly defined goals, within your values, and consistently accomplishing your goals and mission. I also measure success by how many people I have supported or helped along the way.
Do you believe in work-life balance? If so how do you maintain it?
Bonika: I believe in prioritizing what is important. There is no true balance, however, I make my family the priority and most often if there is a conflict, then family wins. Last, when your work is your passion and it is in alignment with your family’s overall mission, then you have a collaborative effort for accomplishing the mission and oftentimes the family is on board with the times when work must be the priority.
Who is your business role model? Why?
Bonika: My business role models are Tyler Perry, Oprah, and Marvin Ellison of Lowe’s
They are all mission-oriented, faith-led, and believers in reaching back and pulling others along.
It’s Minority Mental Health Month. Why is the conversation surrounding mental health so important especially in minority communities?
Bonika: Access to Mental Health in the minority community is ultimately about life or death. For years, the minority community has been plagued with a stigma around mental health. This stigma has precluded many from receiving the help that they need and because of that minority communities continue to be disproportionately impacted by drug abuse, crime, and death. Many of us don’t have familial support and encouragement and others don’t have the resources (money, health care insurance, and transportation). The Mental Health discussion is critical because depression and death by suicide have increased tremendously because of people feeling isolated during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Our community has also been impacted by severe trauma from racial and social injustice and this also causes increased anxiety, stress, fear, and hopelessness.
July is National Black Family Month. Black Family Month encourages individuals and communities to come together in support and solidarity, promoting unity and empowerment within Black families. I have the story of an amazing woman doing the work to keep families and marriages together and happy. Bonika Wilson is a renowned advocate for change and diversity with over 26 years of experience in guiding businesses through complex organizational challenges. Now, Wilson is leveraging successful business practices to guide high-power couples in the application of these strategies to maximize results in their relationships and marriages. With a firm belief in the power of strategic planning, she brings her unique perspective from the corporate world to marital relationships.
What was the inspiration behind your brand?
Bonika: My brand is about leaving a legacy, making an impact, and enhancing communities by sharing a blueprint of creating and obtaining healthy families that can be shared and reproduced to change the trajectory/direction of our culture and our country.
Why are healthy marriages so important?
Bonika: Healthy marriages are the foundation for healthy families, healthy lives, whole children, strong finances, and safer more inclusive communities. Solving most problems, we are faced with mental health, mass shootings, drug abuse, suicide, crime, economics, education, and more start with healthy individuals leaving healthy homes. Currently, we are dealing with broken people leaving broken homes and until we solve for whole people entering our communities, we will never be able to really tackle all the other items. But broken parents often create broken children and broken people create broken communities. Healing families will ultimately heal communities.
What makes your approach to helping marriages unique?
Bonika: My solutions-oriented approach, combined with a true passion for inclusive communities, and healthy families. I have developed a one-of-a-kind blueprint for couples to tackle day-to-day challenges, plan for them strategically, build a legacy, and leave a dynasty.
Do you believe in work-life balance? If so how do you maintain it?
Bonika: I believe in prioritizing what is important. There is no true balance, however, I make my family the priority and most often if there is a conflict, then family wins. Last, when your work is your passion and it is in alignment with your family’s overall mission, then you have a collaborative effort for accomplishing the mission and oftentimes the family is on board with the times when work must be the priority.
What’s your best piece of advice for aspiring and new entrepreneurs?
Bonika: Follow your passion and align your businesses with your gifts, talents, and knowledge. And of course, develop a strategy (business plan) for accomplishing your vision. Last, align yourself with knowledgeable mentors and an amazing team who believes in your mission.
In addition to it being Black Family Month, it’s also Minority Mental Health Month. Why is the conversation surrounding mental health so important especially in minority communities?
Bonika: Access to Mental Health in the minority community is ultimately about life or death. For years, the minority community has been plagued with a stigma around mental health. This stigma has precluded many from receiving the help that they need and because of that minority communities continue to be disproportionately impacted by drug abuse, crime, and death. Many of us don’t have familial support and encouragement and others don’t have the resources (money, health care insurance, and transportation). The Mental Health discussion is critical because depression and death by suicide have increased tremendously because of people feeling isolated during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Our community has also been impacted by severe trauma from racial and social injustice and this also causes increased anxiety, stress, fear, and hopelessness.
