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THE ACADEMY

Meet Kasia Urbaniak

FOUNDER & HEADMISTRESS OF THE ACADEMY

Kasia Urbaniak is internationally recognized as a leading authority on hidden power dynamics, uniquely combining nearly two decades of experience as a professional dominatrix with 17 years of training in Taoist Alchemy under female mystics in China.

She is the Founder and CEO of The Academy, where she has worked with thousands of ambitious women, including executives, entrepreneurs, artists, and thought leaders, helping them command authority, influence, and presence. Kasia has delivered lectures at institutions such as the Yale School of Management, Wharton, and the U.S Navy ROTC. Her TEDx talk, “One Simple Trick to Reclaim Your Power,” was attended by over 10,000 people.

Her work has been featured in The New York Times, BBC, Forbes, and Vanity Fair. Kasia is also the author of Unbound: A Woman’s Guide to Power and continues to redefine female power with precision, vision, and fierce compassion.

Throughout centuries, women have been trained to give away their power.

The Academy teaches women to take their power back.

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Today, we're told to "stand in our power" and "use our voice" if we want to have influence in the world. We teach women how.

UNBOUND
A Woman’s Guide to Power

by Kasia Urbaniak

The ultimate guide to owning your power—and mastering how to use it.

  • What most surprised me is the raw power of Kasia's approach and the variety of women who study with her - there is no "type".

    — OlaSzelag

  • I can manage the very senior men I'm around with a sense of "I'm in control here" even when they think they are.

    — Lysa Price

  • I knew within the first ten minutes of class that it was worth every penny, because I learned more in those ten minutes than in 10 years of therapy. It is one of the most profound growth experiences that I have ever had.

    — Laurel Carpenter

  • You won't believe how cool this work is.

    — Mim

  • I no longer "lead like a man" as I was taught early in my career. This work has allowed me to understand how to work more effectively in the very male dominated environment in which I work.

    — Ruby Frankel

  • I have so much more agency in my relationships with men than I have ever felt before. I feel that I have power to ask for what I want, and no longer feel helpless to address power imbalances in those relationships.

    — Laurel Carpenter

  • I have begun a transformation of my relationship with my mother, one that was never peaceful. I am also much more clear and direct with men now, able to ask for what I want without fear of rejection.

    — Jennifer Jay House

  • Kasia defines dominant and submissive states originally and practically. The online videos are profound, provocative and relevant.

    — Johanna Herwitz, Ph. D

  • I had conversations in my marriage that were never possible before. And there's an almost effortless shift in the tiny day-to-day "compromises" - resignation, really - that was chewing away at my happiness on the margins. I see more opportunity for us than ever before.

    — Kia Salinas

  • Kasia's work is a unique and effective approach for mastering the power dynamic of relationships, to strengthening family bonds to standing up to bullies, to creating rich intimate realtionships.

    — Terry DeMeo