Leadership

What will you actually DO to impact real change for black employees?

  I usually begin my messages with storytelling, and while I could tell any number of stories of my experience with discrimination in Corporate America, I want to humanize this message by focusing the discussion on you–the leader who actually has some decision- making power to do something about the black employee experience in your workplace. I’ll start by asking this question: How will you move this important…

Have you checked on your black friends & colleagues?

  Allies… have you texted, called, emailed, sent a carrier pigeon to check on your black friends or colleagues? My network is telling me no. In fact, I know first hand. I know it seems that because some of us have learned to walk and talk in the smooth corporate way, that we have credentials up to our ears, that we are church-going people who wouldn’t dream of…

What are you learning from this crisis?
What do you know now that you didn’t before coronavirus changed everything? This pandemic has blown the cover off of so much, from our leadership at all levels, how companies did business and how they will do it moving forward to the disparities between the haves and have nots, the rich and poor, the tech enabled and tech poor, black/brown and white, health disparities, the privileged and unprivileged.  Even…
5 Ways to Lead with Tech in a Fractured Digital Age

WATCH: Today’s #NSCRockstarLeadership Tip of the Day– Lead with Tech. A couple nuggets for you in the video, but I’ve also highlighted what I shared with leaders at the Opera America Conference last week as we explored Technologies and Their Impact for OPERA America. If you want to lead as a brand or an individual, here are 5 Simple Questions to connect and engage with tech that will…

Sign Up for the NSC Personal Brand Builder Jet Pack, A Micro-Course

Dear Friends… The year was 2018. I was working with my web designer on my website.  It would be my birthday present to myself.  After being pretty high profile on behalf of the Fortune 10 I was working with, it was time to be decisive about my own brand. It was around this time that people started to see the yellow and black motif, but this wasn’t simply…

5 Ways Leaders Can Prepare for What’s Next After Covid-19

  I had a wonderful time engaging with 100 of the Executive Leadership Council’s finest mid-level and executive managers from Fortune 500s from across the country when I hosted an online workshop that blended coaching and training that focused on preparing them for life and work after Covid-19. I provided five cornerstones to navigate and lead through what’s next with this pandemic and I also provided a hierarchy…

Mompreneurs Discuss How They’re Making It Work Amidst a Pandemic

BY LAUREN HAWKINS • MAY 18, 2020 Since 2018, The DEC Network has teamed up with Capital One, which is the WEDallas founding partner and title sponsor, on the WEDallas Mompreneur event. Despite the ongoing pandemic, the two organizations still hosted the annual event—this time as a virtual happy hour.  As always, the event centered on being both a mom and a business owner, but this year’s event had…

The 30 Minute Mentor Gives Way to NSC eLearning

ANNOUNCING: NSC eLearning, the rebrand of The 30 Minute Mentor which started in 2018 as my flagship learning and mentoring platform. NSC Coaching & Consulting offers e-learning in the form of webinars, masterclasses.. audiocasts and audio conferences and other digital content. Full online courses will be offered within weeks. We can also tailor live, in-person masterclasses for your business or organizations. Click here to book a time to…

Ep 93: #ThrowbackThursday My Tribute to Earl Graves, Sr. with Alfred Edmond, Jr.

YOU KNOW, I haven’t slown down since the slowdown. I canceled my daughter and my trip to Disney, but I never took the actual time off. I literally went into overdrive supporting people, their brands and their careers in light of Covid-19. But a conversation with my own mentor coach revealed that I needed some self care in a hurry. It seemed time to take a break, and…

Ep 91: The Coaching Corner on LinkedIN LIVE, Leading Through Covid-19

  We talk about this pandemic and how it is impacting you as a leader–of your home, of your work or your business.  This is heavy, everyone.  It’s talk about it LIVE on The Culture Soup Podcast® On #LinkedInLIVE

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