Afrotech has called The Culture Soup Podcast®️one of Seven Great Podcasts for Black Tech Entrepreneurs. 🙌🏽🙌🏽 Shout out to the incomparable Morgan DeBaun and her incredible team at Blavity and more. Thanks for the recognition. We are on hiatus until January 2021, and we are planning some great shows. Meantime, there are about 200 episodes for you to binge listen to over the holidays to get caught up. Enjoy! Read the…
Are you stuck thinking that your mentors must be more powerful or more senior than you to be your mentor? Let’s blow up that paradigm and see how you can expand your tribe or personal board of directors with more members who can add rocket fuel to your career and leadership growth. This is part of the section assembling and activating your tribe in my new book No…
You need a sponsor on your personal board of directors, they tell you. So you get one. In fact, they chose you. But they didn’t deliver or never do. Just very exciting talk, you’ve noticed. At the end of the day, you need to put more trust in yourself and your abilities and be pleasantly surprised when a true sponsor shows up and shows out for you. But…
I do not own the rights to this video. Courtesy Roland Martin Unfiltered. Thrilled to speak to Roland’s illustrious panel and especially in awe to take a question from Dr. Jullian Malveaux. GET THE BOOK.
Are you being mindful of your small gestures? We examine this in my new book No Thanks: 7 Ways to Say I’ll Just Include Myself. Often we skip over them and tend to the grand gestures, but that can do damage to your reputation. Take a listen to today’s #NSCRockstarLeadership Tip of the Day. Get the book at nothanksbook.com.
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(photo courtesy: Debra Hunter Johnson) The pandemic has spiked in many states. The CDC is issuing warnings about holiday gatherings. That’s all fine, it then it hits you: you have to break it to your family that you won’t be coming. Afraid to face off with your mother or that demanding uncle? Today, I recorded an interview on NBC DFW on how to break that news to family.…
In a piece from Harvard Business Review, Zuhairah Washington and Lauren Morgan say that “women of color don’t need to be told to “lean in.” Research shows that the vast majority of them have confidence and ambition, determination and desire.” Stated in the article’s title, women of color simply “get less support at work.” This concept is not lost on executive coach, author and speaker L. Michelle Smith.…
Filling your #Linkedin timeline with “corporate rah rah?” …and that’s a good look for whom, again, Sis? It’s time to do better. Your #nscrockstarleadership tip of the day is to leverage the 80:20 rule for employee advocacy, because it really is a win-win for you and your company. Over rotate, and you’ve just squandered your social media real estate…and for companies that have a far bigger marketing budget than you do.…
What is the opportunity for outsiders in privilege? This conversation between America’s Psychologist Dr. Jeff Gardere and myself unpacks a very nuanced view on privilege which can unlock a new mindset for Women of Color battling bias on their way to executive leadership. Here is one of the many gems jammed pack in my book No Thanks: 7 Ways to Say I’ll Just Include Myself about how to…