CHAPTER 10
HIRING MADE VISIBLE
Individual Decisions, Institutional Changes
We have to stop believing it when people say “Black women or women of color can’t be aggressive in the workplace.” That’s a dog whistle for us to be quiet. What we are is passionate. We have to be done with being quiet and start defining what it means to show up and take up space in a meeting, on a project, and in an organization. We have to be bold. We have to be courageous. We have to stand and make a clearing for us to create, whether it’s within an organization or we decide to move out and start our own business.
KAREN SENTEIOBlack American, Executive Coach1
On the southwest side of Boston lies Roxbury, one of the twenty-three official neighborhoods in the city. ...
Get The Business of Race: How to Create and Sustain an Antiracist Workplace—And Why it’s Actually Good for Business now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
