DIFFERENT SKILLS are required for different opportunities. The more skills you’ve honed, the more repeat invitations you will receive for those skills. Whether you are asked to be an emcee, a moderator, a keynote, a panelist, a facilitator or host a fireside chat, each comes with different demands and require different skills. I am elite communicator, and with that comes not only the ability to pivot, but the…
WOKE-WASHING. Pink Washing. Pride-Painting. You’ve seen it in marketing and advertising, or maybe you don’t know what any of it is. Either way, you need to tune in for the brand new episode on Thursday. I’m talking to the global practice lead for consumer brand marketing at one of the largest communications and integrated marketing agencies in the world, FleishmanHillard. She and her teams are on a…
DALLAS, TX | LOS ANGELES, CA– (Dec 3, 2019) What leadership and business lessons could you learn from a 21-year old? For Jaylen D. Bledsoe, chairman of The Bledsoe Collective, Inc., the lessons are in resilience, innovation, cultural insight, transformational leadership, entrepreneurship, technology and marketing—but he isn’t just any 21-year-old. Jaylen has signed with Dallas-based no silos communications group (NSC Group) to connect him with corporations as…
Today’s #ThrowbackThursday #Thanksgiving Edition is my Mama’s Pick. In lieu of an editor’s pick, it is one of my most important listener’s selections: my mother! We take it back to August when I had marketing legend Dorinda Walker on the show. She is a fellow @LEAD360 faculty member and downright world beater. You have GOT to hear her story. Talk about unprecedented resilience! It was a joy to…
Are you ready to really utilize your social media real estate to move to the next level of executive influence? You probably know that there is more to social media than event photos, ussies, corporate hashtags, group shots on a step and repeat, “food porn”, vacations and party pics, but how do you unlock the kind of content that attracts the people you are really after: new…
If we can deplete supplies of chicken sandwiches and clear the shelves of sweet potato pies, what would happen if we withheld our influence and dollars? We could kill industries, but we are too busy consuming to know it. Nielsen SVP Cheryl Grace joins me on Thursday’s show to talk black influence and the black dollar. Tune in for our regular edition wherever fine podcasts drop. Oh, and…
Well, it’s a wrap. We went live for the first time on LinkedIn with the Coaching Corner Episode, and by all accounts, it was good. A little snag with audio, but you won’t know of it here. We peel back the onion on personal branding. Listen in… and my friend Shannon Lanier from CW39 in Houston joined.
You know, one of the best ways to get to know someone is to be in the trenches with them. In this case, it was the trenches of the beauty business. If you don’t know who this is, you need to. She is the driving force behind the revival of one of the most iconic brands in black beauty culture, and I’m proud to say that I got…
We are still celebrating the podcast’s birthday! I’m going get some gluten free cake! So I’m re-racking one of the most downloaded episodes of all time, and you may be surprised at which one it is. Happy listening! Enjoy!
(iStock/LightFieldStudios) In my work as a professional executive and business coach, I encounter people who are facing career transitions, whether they are vying for another position inside their own company, considering starting a business, looking for a new job, or planning to move into a new industry. This summer, I had the pleasure of meeting some of them at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Convention and…