Safe Spaces For Professional Black Women To Exhale
Dr. Carey Yazeed is excited to announce that she will begin hosting virtual safe spaces for Black women to be vulnerable about workplace issues. These groups will be intimate settings that allow participants an opportunity to discuss the issues they are facing in the work place, while receiving feedback and support. Group Session Information: The next […]
Have Professional Black Women Reached The Corporate Promise Land?
Have Black women really reached the corporate promise land? Have we really overcome oppression and discrimination in the workplace? The other day, I was confronted on LinkedIn by a woman of another race. She wanted to know why my upcoming training was only for Black women, because in her opinion – ALL women experience the […]
Opening Pandora’s Box: Why Cassie Got Paid and What Her Lawsuit Means For the Average Worker Experiencing Workplace Abuse
Now that we are over the “shock” of Cassie’s lawsuit and the abuse that she allegedly endured (my use of the word allegedly in no way indicates that I do not believe Cassie, let me make that very clear) I want to discuss what her lawsuit means for the average worker who endures workplace abuse. […]
Is The Gender Pay Gap Shrinking For Black Women
In a recent article for Axios, Courtenay Brown indicated that the pay gap between full-time working women and their male counterparts is now the narrowest on record. “The dynamic has been long in the making — a reflection of discrimination’s slow fade and other structural forces that have held women back on pay,” she stated. […]
LinkedIn We Have a Problem: The Silencing of Black Voices
In mid June my posts on LinkedIn started to experience a drastic decrease in engagement (we’re talking 10 likes and zero comments). Social media experts would have me to believe it was something that I was doing wrong, but I soon learned the business platform had made changes to its algorithms that I believe were […]
Water Cooler Ally
“Can we have an honest conversation?” Have you ever met someone who constantly reminds you they are an ally? The word is included in their greeting, it is woven into all of their conversations, it’s listed in their LinkedIn headline, and you see it in their email signature. Ally, ally, ally. Since the world witnessed […]
When Nobody Gets You: Introverts In The Workplace
Photo by Yusuf Kayode. “You never join us after work for happy hour!” “Is something wrong with you? Why don’t you ever have anything to say?” When we talk about psychological safety in the workplace, introverts tend to struggle the most. Employers tell us to “show up as your authentic self,” but when we show […]
Black Women and Vulnerability: What Brene Brown Got Wrong
Photo from Front Office Sports. “When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid,” ~ Audre Lorde On Sunday, April 2nd, the LSU Women’s Basketball team won the NCAA National Championship against Iowa. Down in the bayou, we cheered and celebrated […]
Embracing Equity: Why Achieving Equity Has Been Difficult for Black Women in America
Photo by Nicholas Swatz. Today is International Women’s Day and this year’s theme is #EmbraceEquity. We didn’t just start fighting for equity today, nor during the summer of 2020 when society decided that caring about minorities, women, gender identity and people they consider as ‘others’ became the morally right thing to do. No, this fight […]
She-Devil: When Misogynistic Women Support Abusive Men in the Workplace
Photo by Thirdman. When the news first broke regarding the extramarital affair between Good Morning America hosts, TJ Holmes and Amy Robach, everyone brushed it off as, “they are two consenting adults and what they do outside of their marriages is none of our business,” that is until the allegations began to roll in regarding […]
