The year was 2013. I was minding my own business, rocking my 3-month-old to sleep after her midday bottle when my smartphone lit up. It was my first supervisor, a partner at a massive agency. He was embedded at a company that used to be a client, and that I had incredible respect for. Ultimately, he asked me to come work for that company. I wasn’t in the…
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…
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…
Opera Shenanigan’s blog celebrates 7 Instagram accounts that are related to Opera and recommends following them in celebration of them reaching 7,000 followers on with Instagram account. Among the profiles highlighted, @lmichellespeaks, calling her a “renaissance woman” and “a force of nature.” A special thanks to @operashenanigans for the recognition!
Here we go again with names and hashtags. In times like these, you have to call your longtime girlfriend, because if the pandemic wasn’t enough, they’re killing black people again. Socamom® and Socamom Summit founder, children’s book author and Caribbean parenting expert Eva Greene Wilson, JD and I have a raw conversation about what it is like to be black in America, raise children, especially sons, have a…
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…
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…
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…
When a global pandemic hits, things change, and they can for the better if you just put your mind to it. Five of technology, business and opera’s finest minds discuss how covid-19 will bend but not break because it is determine to lead with technology and not just use it as an “in the meantime” tool. This fascinating discussion is applicable to any industry or business plotting…