Shared Sisterhood

2 Sisterhood across Different Levels

I (Tina) was hired to conduct an enterprise-wide consulting project to help a large corporation address a problematic organizational culture. There were concerns about turnover and a lack of diversity at critical levels within the company. In our initial discussions, the company identified what seemed to be a clear organization-level problem. But, despite the system-level scope of the project, company leadership requested that I hold open meetings and/or office hours so that individual Black employees could receive coaching advice directly from me, rather than coaching organizational leaders on how to remove anti-Blackness from their recruiting, hiring, and performance-management systems. In my opinion, ...